Wow, 400 posts. I have been watching the number of posts add up to this closely. On Chinese New Year, January 24, 2012, I started my game of trying to make a different meal each week night for one year. About 2 3/4 years later I am still working on this. I took two big…
Category: Desserts/Sweets
4 Ingredient No Bake S’More Bars
This is my family’s new favorite recipe. My daughter has made them three times over the last five days. I finally had to say, “No more!” They are so simple and wonderfully tasty. For my mostly GF son I use gluten-free chocolate chips and marshmallows and substitute Schar Gluten-Free Honeygrams Graham Crackers broken up into…
Chicken Fried Chicken and a Date Night
Now that school is just about out and evenings are getting longer we have a nightly ritual of going down to the beach and sitting to watch the sunset. It is so peaceful and calming and a great way to end the night. When I received my first Influenster box in the mail the other…
Easy Breadmaker Cinnamon Rolls
Unfrosted Cinnamon Roll I don’t bake. I love to cook but baking is too exacting for me. You have to be precise in your measurements or it doesn’t rise or completely crumbles. For my daughter’s slumber party I wanted to make a special breakfast so I found the EASIEST Breadmaker Cinnamon Rolls I could find…
Orange Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
We don’t bake sweets too much in our house. I don’t enjoy making them much and my kids like eating them too much so the combination makes me give pause whenever I think about baking. Plus, you have to be so exact with baking or it doesn’t rise or set. I like cooking where you…
Amish Friendship Bread – no starter needed
I am not much of a baker. I LOVE to cook because it allows me to be really creative. I don’t like baking as much though because you have to be so precise in the science with baking or it may not turn out. So, I very rarely bake. Following a recipe blindly is not…
Peppermint Bark
Merry Christmas! Are we supposed to eat real food on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? I know in our house it is pretty much everything that I don’t make or have in the house the rest of the year suddenly has to be eaten over these two days. Candy, fat and sugar are the foods…
Betty Crocker Egg Nog
This is for my kids. They LOVE egg nog. Not the kind you buy in a carton or the thick gloppy stuff you cook they prefer the version from the Betty Crocker’s Cookbook for Boys and Girls. It is a fairly simple recipe and they can make it by themselves. This time of year they…
Apple Pie Praline French Toast Casserole
This was an interesting day. I had been planning on making French Toast for quite a few days now but I just never got around to buying the apple pie filling until today. While I was at the store I saw pecans. I love pecans but rarely buy them because they are so expensive. But,…
Chocolate “Bakery” Like Cake?
I LOVE to cook. I like mixing things together and making them taste amazing. Trying different combinations until it is just what I know my family will like. I don’t bake often. It is not something I enjoy. You have to be so exact in your measurements and there is not quite so much room…
Cinnamon Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
I have an ice cream family. They love ice cream. They would eat ice cream every day, twice a day if I let them. I am however not a fan of ice cream. Just not something I love like the rest of my family. I would prefer a great dish of mashed potatoes or a…
Soft Chewy Caramel Popcorn
Ever since I was a kid I have hated caramel corn. It always tasted like burnt sugar to me and I never found those hard crunch pieces at all appealing. My children on the other hand love it. I saw this recipe on Pinterest (of course) for Aunt Val’s Soft Chewy Caramel Corn. I thought…
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