Category: Ingredients

  • Do It Yourself – Spreads, Sauces, and Breads

    This is my last installment of reviewing my Do It Yourself blog posts.  This DIY post features my blog’s spreads, sauces, and bread. Sauces and Spreads         Bread I’ve created  a page with all the Do It Yourself posts for easy access.  Click on the picture below to go to the page..…

  • Crockpot Lasagna

    Soon after I was married in 1999, my mom gave me a recipe for lasagna that involved no boiling the noodles.  I’ve made it that way for the past almost 17 years. I can’t believe I haven’t shared the recipe for my lasagna before.  It takes a while to prepare it, but it’s worth the…

  • Pressure Cooker Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

    The other day I went to an event.  They served frozen lasagna.  It made me crave homemade lasagna, so I decided to make some.    I asked Hubby to get me the ingredients for my lasagna.  Rather than using store-bought sauce, I decided to use my spaghetti sauce recipe.  I adapted the recipe for the…

  • Sausage, Peppers, and Onions – Pressure Cooking Or Slow Cooker

    I found this recipe and decided to make this for our dinner.  We loved that it was made in a pressure cooker.  Hubby got a lesson on how the pressure cooker works.  He saw how long the recipe was supposed to take so that he could gauge what time dinner was going to be on…

  • “Chef Mickey’s” Breakfast Pizza

    Almost 2 years ago, we went to Walt Disney World.  Hubby got us reservations for Chef Mickey’s at the Contemporary so we could meet Mickey and the gang. It was there that I discovered the breakfast pizza.  Delicious!  I’ve found recipes for the pizza but hadn’t tried to make the pizza until tonight. This is…

  • Eggnog Quick Bread – Christmas Making and Baking

    I’m finishing up my Christmas making and baking. My mom called me last night to tell me that she was going to come over to our house for Christmas.  It’s been many years since she’s been at our house for Christmas, so it was a nice surprise.  The one thing she asked for was homemade…

  • Eggnog Doughnuts – Christmas Making and Baking

    I bought some eggnog to make eggnog bread. Since I had some of the eggnog left, I decided to find a recipe to make eggnog doughnuts. This recipe is moist and delicious. It paired well with my coffee flavored with my peppermint mocha creamer. It would also be delicious with my eggnog creamer. To make…

  • Santa’s Whiskers – Christmas Making and Baking

    I made these many years ago.  This year I decided to make them once again. Things you need to remember – Don’t use press and seal plastic wrap when you wrap the cookie dough in plastic wrap.  That made it difficult to make a roll.  The coconut will make a mess.  Just keep the broom…

  • Candied Cinnamon Pecans – Christmas Making and Baking

    Have you ever walked around the mall and smelled the delicious smells of roasted pecans or almonds?  Or walked around Walt Disney World and saw the carts of candied nuts?  You can now make candied pecans and pretend to be in WDW. Walt Disney World’s Cinnamon Candied Pecans I made these many years ago as…

  • Gingerbread Coffee Creamer

    It costs $4.25 for a tall (small) Starbucks’ gingerbread latte.  You can make this creamer for half that price.  You’ll get the same great flavors found in gingerbread. Molasses, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger are flavors you associate with gingerbread.  So those are the flavors I put into my homemade creamer.