Category: Recipes

  • The Imaginative One only eats plain noodles, but he surprisingly enjoyed baked spaghetti I made. It’s an easy meal!

  • I was looking at Mommy’s Kitchen’s blog on New Year’s Eve on New Year’s Eve.  She had listed a cheese dip named the Charleston cheese dip.  The name alone intrigued me because Charleston, South Carolina, is on my list of favorite places to visit.  My mother-in-law was born there and would spend summers there while…

  • Every New Year’s Eve, the Imaginative One, the Wee One, and I head to my mother-in-law’s house to ring in the new year.  A new tradition was created a couple of years ago.  The grandkids (4 of them in total) spend the night at grandma and grandpa’s house after staying up until midnight.  Mommy and…

  • Happy New Year! I haven’t blogged as much as I like during the past year. This needs to be corrected. Right before Christmas, I was browsing Not Rachael Ray’s blog and found this recipe for sugar cookies. I had all the ingredients, so I finished baking those cookies. Oh my goodness, these are easy cookies…

  • One of my favorite authors/book series is Joanna Fluke’s, Hannah Swenson.  Not only does Hannah bake cookies for a living, but she also solves mysteries.  Joanne Fluke also provides recipes for the readers.  I have found several of my favorite recipes in her books.  This is one of those recipes.  I don’t remember which book…

  • When I was a teenager, I lived with my mom and grandparents.  Even though my grandma was a great cook, she never taught me her recipes.  Oh, I have a few recipes because she gave them to me.  However, she and I never cooked in the same kitchen. One of the side dishes she cook…

  • A couple of weeks ago, I found a recipe in Grandma Loy’s kitchen that intrigued me. The recipe was for pecan pie bars made with pretzels instead of pecans. I knew I wanted to make them but didn’t know when I would. So on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, at dinner, we were talking about Thanksgiving…

  • Last week I found this recipe on This Week for Dinner’s website. I thought this was a genius idea because you don’t need to make a separate crust for the pie. I don’t know if I’ve attempted to make homemade crust. Usually, I use the store-bought variety. This pie is easy to put together. Although it called…

  • My husband doesn’t eat raw carrots but eats cooked carrots.  The Imaginative One doesn’t eat cooked carrots but eats raw carrots.  So it makes it interesting to decide what veggies to cook for dinner.  I saw this recipe and decided I needed to make it for Thanksgiving.  It fits the criteria of easy, quick, and cooks in…

  • Today is Thanksgiving, and I have much to be thankful for this year. Now onto the recipe. On Sunday, my father-in-law informed us he was cooking a chicken for Thanksgiving. There were going to be only 6 of us for dinner, and he didn’t want to deal with all the leftovers. The family convinced him…