Category: Ingredients

  • 31 Days of Slow Cooking (Day 6) – Baked Potatoes

    I told my family I was going to do this challenge.  They are very supportive of my taking on this challenge.  In fact, Hubby decided to surprise me by changing the area where the crock pot is located.  He didn’t like how it was in the back of the counter. The meat on the cutting…

  • Menu Plan Monday – October 5, 2015

    Since I’m doing the 31-day writing challenge about slow cooker recipes, I’ve decided to have most of my meals cooked in the slow cooker.  I don’t include Saturdays and Sundays on the menu because weekends are always up in the air with what we actually eat. Monday – pork chops with Rice a Roni, veggies…

  • Pumpkin Pie Spice

    Fall means the flavors of pumpkin and apples.  Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves are often found in dishes made during the fall.  I love those flavors and smells. I’m going to share a few recipes that use pumpkin pie spice.  You can buy a container of pumpkin pie spice or make your own.  It’s more…

  • Applesauce Overnight Oatmeal

    Until a few years ago, breakfast was not a favorite meal of mine.  I rarely ate breakfast which is not a good habit to get into.  Then I made a resolution in 2013 to eat breakfast every day.  I did 98% of the time, but a few times, I forgot to – usually if I…

  • This is an easy meal to impress your guests with. On Sundays, we usually eat dinner with my mother-in-law.  It’s a tradition that started when Hubby and I were just married.  My father-in-law usually made the dinner.  When he died, we continued the tradition.  Sometimes I make the dinner.  Other times my mother-in-law makes the…

  • “Chef Paul’s World Famous Pancakes” or Wee One’s New Favorite Pancakes

    Disclaimer:  I don’t know Paul. He attended the same church my grandma did back in 1994, but that’s all I know. In 2007, my grandma fell and broke her leg. Since she had to go live in a nursing home, we had to clear out of her house. That was a somber and tedious task.…

  • We love chocolate chip cookies around here.  However, I’m not always in the mood to mix up a full batch of cookies.  Make ahead chocolate chip cookie mix to the rescue.  The dry ingredients are already mixed up, so all you need to do is add the wet ingredients and mix. Hint:  Use an electric…

  • Kitchen Tip Tuesday – DIY Brown Sugar

    I’ve come up with a new idea for Tuesdays.  There might be a tip every Tuesday or every other Tuesday. On Saturday, we tuned into “America’s Worse Cooks” on the Food Network.  It was interesting watching those novice cooks trying to work their way through the kitchen.  If they knew some tips and tricks in…

  • In the last week, we’ve had homemade pizza twice.  Last Sunday I made a pizza for our Sunday night dinner at my mother-in-law’s house.  We then had it for supper on Saturday night.  I tried two new crust recipes and enjoyed the second one.  In fact, Hubby told me that the pizza was great on…

  • The Imaginative One could live on chocolate, popcorn, and French Fries. I’ve started baking my French Fries.  He loves them and will eat any fries left on the tray. The first hundred times (maybe not that much), it would take the fries a long time to bake which doesn’t help when I have to get…