Category: Recipes

  • The Imaginative One is very laid back.  Hakuna Matata could almost be his theme song.  He’s been like that since he was in utero.  The boys are allowed to pick what they want to do for their birthday.  The Wee One had a list of things he wanted to do for his birthday.  He also…

  • This weekend we went on a weekend getaway. The hotel we would be staying at didn’t provide a complimentary breakfast. We could have gone to a restaurant for breakfast, but I decided it would be better if I made something for us to eat. I had made these before but had lost the recipe. As…

  • Say that 5 times fast.  Such a tongue-twister of a name for a recipe. I got a chicken from my favorite meat places and cooked it up in the crockpot.  Then it was time for the task of trying to figure out what to serve with the chicken.  The other day I had bacon cheddar…

  • I lived with my grandparents, mom, and sister as a teenager. On most nights, we would sit down as a family for dinner. One of the meals my grandma would prepare is green beans, potatoes, and ham in the crockpot. I can still see the kitchen and her round crockpot full of green beans, potatoes,…

  • I found this recipe last week and tried it out on my family. They all have their seal of approval. In fact, I’ve been asked to teach a lesson on it on Easter Sunday. The crescent rolls represent the robes Jesus was wrapped in & the tomb he was put into after he died on…

  • I made these for our family dinner this week. We had lasagna, and I wanted to serve something garlicky that was not garlic bread. I immediately thought of these biscuits. I had made them before and remember loving them. The final verdict from the adults was they loved them. Score! They are my kind of…

  • Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

    I found this recipe in Erin Chase’s $5 Dinner Cookbook and have been using it for the past year or so. Today I was making lasagna for dinner and decided to make the sauce for it. Homemade Spaghetti Sauce$5 Dinners Stars of the recipe: Steps: Note: You may add 1 Tbsp. of white sugar or…

  • Yum! This soup is so good. Last weekend I was checking out meals matter. I hadn’t been on that site in forever. Anyway, I found this recipe in my personal cookbook on that site. I decided it would be a good dinner. So I put it on our meal plan. Both the Imaginative One and…

  • Last fall, I bought doughnut pan with plans to make homemade doughnuts often.  I made a few batches and the pan ended up in my oven drawer sitting there all lonely. Since it’s St. Patrick’s Day, I decided I needed to do something green related for a treat.  I decided doughnuts would be a great…

  • Yummy! Three ingredients that sound strange together come together in gooey, gooey deliciousness goodness. We had a family game night scheduled for my church. I decided to make a recipe from a while ago and a new recipe. I have Stephanie O’Dea’s slow cooker cookbook. This is one of the recipes in it. Sausage, cream…