Homemade Cookie Butter

Don’t you just love Christmas time?  I do!  I get to bake and bake and bake and then bake some more!  I’m finally done with work for the year (I think!) and have been having a great time in the kitchen cranking out neighbor gifts.  I found this recipe for Homemade Cookie Butter in the … Continue reading

Homemade Dinner Rolls

I’m not the world’s greatest bread maker so anytime I make anything with yeast dough and it turns out, I’m surprised and delighted.  Here are the rolls from our Thanksgiving dinner, they were yummy!  The recipe comes from The Food Network and were actually pretty easy to make. 1 (1/4 oz) package dry active yeast … Continue reading

Butterscotch Apple Crisp

Here’s the other dessert I made for Bunco the other night, I was on a butterscotch kick.  This one was amazingly delicious, the butterscotch chips added the perfect taste to an ordinary apple crisp.  The recipe comes from “The Food Network” and was easy to make.  I added to the recipe by half so that … Continue reading

Cookies and Cream Cake

It was Zach’s birthday this past week and he is a huge Oreo fan so when I found this cake on the Food Network site, I knew it was the birthday cake for him and I was right, it was delicious and I think he ate probably half of the cake  himself.  The recipe for … Continue reading

Corn Salsa

This was so good!  We had friends over for dinner last night and this was a new recipe that I decided to try.  It’s a Food Network recipe, courtesy of Trisha Yearwood, it was so easy and quick to put together, it would be great for a summer barbeque. 1 (15 oz) can yellow corn, … Continue reading

Banana Nut Muffins

My nephew Hunter has been here for the weekend visiting us and I wanted to send him back to the dorms with some food so first up are these muffins so he has a breakfast snack.  The recipe comes from the “Food Network” website.  I haven’t tried one as I’m sending them all home with … Continue reading

Tomato Sauce

Still working on that last big bowl of garden tomatoes and this was a winner!  So flavorful!  Even Zach came up after getting home from work and eating dinner to tell me how much he liked this sauce and it’s easy too, you just need to get going a little earlier in the day if … Continue reading

Crunchy Chocolate Malt Cupcakes

This recipe comes from an article called “I Want Candy” in the January/February 2010 issue of The Food Network Magazine that gave recipes for cupcakes which mimicked the flavor of candy bars.  This one was intended to taste like a Nestle Crunch bar.  Bob had a work party today so I made these last night … Continue reading

Savannah Tailgater Chili

This recipe comes from the October 2011 issue of the Food Network magazine and is a Deen Brothers recipe (Paula Deen’s sons).  It was really good last night and I’m sure that it will be even better today as soups, stews and chilis are almost always better the second day. 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 … Continue reading