Dinner last night, trying to take advantage of all the fresh tomatoes and basil from our garden. The recipe comes from “My Recipes”, easy and yummy! 1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt 1 1/4 pounds (1 quart) small cherry and teardrop tomatoes (I used a … Continue reading
The Young Women were over at my house last night. We made jewelery holders and visited and ate cupcakes. I made lemon cupcakes from a box of lemon cake mix, topped them with the Lemon Truffle Filling from the Kneaders Raspberry Lemon Truffle Cupcake recipe, frosted them with buttercream icing dyed pink, sprinkled with yellow … Continue reading
Ngati wanted a Transformers birthday cake. The cake is two 6″ Key Lime flavored layers, covered in buttercream and then Duff’s fondant again from Michaels. Cort made all the decorations and did a great job. She had to reinforce with toothpicks and skewers since there wasn’t time to let the tall pieces dry very much … Continue reading
Courtney called me at like 7:00 Monday night and announced that we had to make two birthday cakes the next day for Ngati and Ngaio (they are the children of some good friends of Jaren, Courtney’s hubby) so I started baking right away and then she came over Tuesday and we spent most of the … Continue reading
I can’t even begin to describe to you how good these are, except to say that I am still trying to watch my weight and count calories and I ate 2 of them yesterday! Even now I know that they are down there in the kitchen taunting me and I so badly want to go … Continue reading
Next up for Sunday dinner, this delicious pasta salad, everyone really loved this. The recipe comes from “Betty Crocker”, one of my favorite recipe sources. And it was the first time this summer that there were enough tomatoes from our garden to make an entire salad! 2 pounds Roma tomatoes, chopped (8 – 10 medium) … Continue reading
Courtney and Jaren came over for dinner after church yesterday so we were all together and ate out on our deck in the backyard, it was good family time and a good dinner! This chicken recipe comes from a blog called “Picky Palate”. It has all the qualities of a recipe I love – easy … Continue reading
I made these last night for Bob and Luke’s fishing trip today. They were super easy, super quick and super tasty, my only complaint is that the recipe only made 2 dozen. The recipe comes from a blog called “The Frugal Girls”. 1 box Triple Chocolate Fudge cake mix 1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil … Continue reading
This is what happens when the zucchini explodes in your garden and you don’t have a job, you get multiple posts on the food blog involving zucchini! (Just wait till the tomatoes explode!) This recipe comes from a blog called “Nancy Creative”. It was good but I wanted it to be more lemony so if … Continue reading
Dinner last night, trying to use up some of the produce from our garden and also from my neighbor’s garden, thanks Teresa! This recipe comes from a website called “Ready Set Eat”. It was easy and fast to make and Bob loved it! We were thinking you could use it in a wrap too. 1 … Continue reading
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