Bread Machine White Bread, Easy
Remember when a bread machine was all the rage? Everyone bought one, made a few loaves of bread, then they got stashed in the cupboard or were given away or sold. I bought one, too. The recipes in the booklet had more ingredients than I had on hand and never seemed to buy. Then, theyContinue Reading →
Home Canning Instructions & Links
Home canning has made a come-back in the last couple years–with a vengeance. It’s only evidenced by the supply and demand for jars and the price of them–the prices have increased steadily in the last few years. Why are so many people taking up home canning? It’s healthier–you control the ingredients and lack of preservatives.Continue Reading →
Roasted Homemade Pumpkin Puree
Happy Fall! I celebrated the first day of fall roasting pumpkin in the oven (and taking the chill out of the air) to make homemade pumpkin puree. I know, everywhere, and I mean everywhere, says you must use a sugar (or pie) pumpkin to make homemade pumpkin puree for pies. The reasoning I’ve seen–jack-o-lanterns areContinue Reading →
Freezing Cake Batter
Because of the easiness of it all, I really like to keep homemade cake mixes on hand. But not all of our favorite from-scratch cakes can be had out of a mix. But that favorite from-scratch cake batter can be frozen! It’s just like freezing cookie dough to be baked later for the ease ofContinue Reading →
Moist Carrot Cake
When I was looking for a carrot cake recipe to experiment with freezing cake batter, I ended up combining a few different recipes I found to make this wonderful moist carrot cake, using what I had on hand and what we like. How to make Moist Carrot Cake: Combine 2 cups flour, 2 cups sugar,Continue Reading →
A Tasty Ranch Flavored Snack
This isn’t a successful cooking post for me. It’s a successful “get my niece to make things from scratch” post. The niece who I figured out the Mocha Frappacino recipe for. And the niece who loves Stacy’s Pita Chips. We’ve been working together cooking new-to-her dishes. She’s always made a mean microwaved frozen dinner, butContinue Reading →
Food Flashbacks
Do you ever have a flash of a food memory? Of food you used to eat, but haven’t for a long time for one reason or another? I flashed back to college. To what I used to call Succotash. I have no idea how or why we named this dish Succotash. According to Wikipedia, “SuccotashContinue Reading →
Infused Vodka–Cranberry Vanilla
Homemade infused vodka makes a great hostess gift…or for that person that just loves unique drinks. I have one of those people in my family–the same one with expensive frappacino tastes. ( Here’s another project I had to keep off my blog until after Christmas. It’s hard sharing handmade gifts with you when the recipientContinue Reading →
Church Windows aka Stained Glass Windows
Church Windows have been a staple Christmas goodie in our house since I can remember. Mom would make rolls and rolls of them giving a roll out with a ribbon tied around it. Sam (my niece) was feeling hungry for some, but didn’t want to wait until Grandma made them this week. So we tookContinue Reading →
Cookie Dough–Bake One, Freeze One
I remember way back when–in corporate world–my cookie dough came off a yellow truck that would stop curbside every Monday night. The friendly man would take my order and come back with bags and boxes that were promptly put into the freezer. Sooo easy. When I wanted to make “homemade” cookies, I would reach intoContinue Reading →