Fridays tend to be my sweet recipe days. We like to make brownies, cakes, or cookies for the weekend. It helps to get us through. We are starting to get ready for Christmas too. We cannot have our usual parties and such so we are planning on making lots of cookies and breads to send…
Category: Desserts/Sweets
Sweet Potato Bread
In our area pumpkin is hard to find this year. I was able to get 2 pie or sugar pumpkins from our grocery store and 1 from our farm share. Pie or sugar pumpkins are smaller, more fleshy and less stringy than carving pumpkins. We cut them in half, removed the seeds, and roasted them….
Simple Semi Homemade Apple Cider Cake
Team Pumpkin Spice or Apple Cider? I am apple cider all the way. Don’t get me wrong I love a good pumpkin pie more than anything but pumpkin pie flavored foods that shouldn’t be pumpkin pie flavored just don’t sit well with me. When I was little my father worked in an old-fashioned cider mill,…
Top 5 Recipes for September 2020
At the end of every month I take a look back at the previous month to see which recipes have the most likes and views for the previous month. Here are five from September: Slow Cooker Pork Chops with Apples (click for link to recipe) I recently remade favorite on my blog. We still love…
Grilled Peach Sundaes
As the days have officially turned to fall I am sure our days of grilling are going to fewer and far between. We still are trying to keep the grilling going as long as we can. We have decided to grill our Thanksgiving turkey though as we loved the grilled one this summer. So, we…
Almond Pound Cake
Pound cakes are one of my most favorite desserts. I love the spongy texture of the cakes, the flavor either butter, vanilla, or almond, and the slightly thicker crust. Yum. This is a perfect after school snack or morning coffee treat. Verdict: I would make this cake once a week but I don’t because I…
Mini Cherry Cheesecakes
We just got the schedule for back to school. We don’t start until after Labor Day, which is normal here, but the first week back 25% of the students go for half a day each day. So, my son goes one day for half a day. Then the next week they send 25% of the…
Zucchini Bread
I have read this is the year of the zucchini. I guess the weather was perfect for zucchini to thrive and everyone that grew some has a ton. Our CSA farm share has given us 4-5 zucchini and yellow squash each week. Now we know why. Verdict: The nice thing about this bread is that…
6 Desserts for Picnics
Hershey’s Cocoa Chocolate Layer Cake (click for link to recipe) My favorite cake in the world is a Wegman’s Chocolate Cake. Wegman’s is an north east coast grocery chain. They have a chocolate cake that I have buckled in seat belt for a 10 hour drive half way across the country and had flown on…
Tart Cherry Muffins
Are you still baking and cooking at home quite a bit? I still have not gone into a restaurant to eat since March. The restaurants here are at 50% capacity and having outdoor dining when possible but I am just not ready to go out to eat yet. We have been ordering take-out once a…
Hawaiian Luau Sundae
What do you serve for a dessert on a warm night after grilling out? How about Hawaiian Luau Sundae. We wanted a dessert to use up some of the bits and pieces hanging around our house. We had bananas that we made into 2 large banana breads, a whole pineapple that needed to be used,…
Bananas Foster French Toast Cassserole
We just got the announcement that my daughter will be going back to college in the fall. They are doing a hybrid of in person classes, on-line classes and some classes will include both. They are not having any breaks from September 2nd to November 20th when they will break for Thanksgiving. After that students…
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