Also for dinner tonight with my sister in law and nieces and nephews, we are having this but I left out the beer so for us it is just 3 bean pot! This is a Betty Crocker recipe which I got in an email. Smelled divine as it was cooking today! 8 slices uncooked bacon, … Continue reading
This is a recipe from Kraft (www.kraftrecipes.com). Bob loves potato salad but I don’t really like to make it because of the potatoes and cooking them and peeling them and cutting them up, too much work but every now and then I break down and make him potato salad or else he cooks/peels/chops the potatoes … Continue reading
This recipe comes from one of my cookbooks called “Death By Chocolate Cookies” by Marcel Desaulniers. The cookies are so named because they can be made and baked quickly. They were pretty quick to make and taste yummy! 2 cups flour 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 pound … Continue reading
My friend Jennifer Harmon who is my Pampered Chef Director and the President of the Women In Business organization asked if Courtney and I would make a cake for the June luncheon which we were happy to do for the practice and it also gave us some exposure to some new people which is great … Continue reading
Father’s Day dinner – barbecue steak, cheesey ranch potatoes and this salad which comes from the June 2011 issue of Bon Appetit magazine, yum! 6 cups coarsely chopped English hothouse or Persian cucumbers (about 2 pounds total) (I used the mini cucumbers from Costco) 2 large tomatoes (about 1 pound total), coarsely chopped 1 bunch … Continue reading
Last cake of the weekend! We already have 3 wedding cakes coming up this summer so we bought a new flower making kit because Courtney has some new flowers to learn how to do for some of those cakes. She wanted to practice so when we were all done with the other cakes we put … Continue reading
Our friend Kimber asked if we would make a New York Yankees Father’s Day cake for her husband Tyler to celebrate his very first Father’s Day. This was another fun and different cake for us. We made a vanilla cake (from Ann’s Poppy Seed Cake recipe subbing vanilla for yellow cake and omitting the poppy … Continue reading
This cake was so much fun to make! My friend Lori called to see if we would make a Father’s Day cake for her husband Derek. She sent us a list of things that he likes and we chose what we could do to put on the cake. He loves black licorice so we used … Continue reading
These cakes were for my friend Dave’s wife Lisa who is an avid marathon runner so he wanted a cake with some of the logos of the marathons that she’s run on it. It was a good stretch for us to try something new and ultimately it came out pretty good. Courtney wanted to try … Continue reading
Courtney and I are very proud of this one! It is for Courtney’s friend’s Selsa’s baby girl Yocelynn who turned 2. Selsa sent us a picture of the party theme which was green and pink polka dots with a cute monkey face so we went with a topsy turvy cake in 3 layers and covered … Continue reading
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