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My daughter Ariel is having a baby! My first grandchild! Her name is Marley Kay, what a cute name! I can’t wait to meet her!I bet you can’t tell that I am a little excited. Ariel’s due date is May 26. She has been dealing with contraction since the being of April; I think that Marley can’t wait to meet me just as much as I can’t wait to meet her!On Saturday Brandy and I threw Ariel a baby shower.
Simple is always the best way to go, when it comes to cooking. This was not my first time making a bubble bake; I used to make a pizza bake for the girls when they were younger. But this was my first time making a Sloppy Joe Bake.It came to me yesterday when I was looking in my pantry. I was teasing Richard; I asked him “What do you see when you look in here?” He said “He said a lot of cans.” I th
What could be better on a fall day, than a nice pot of soup simmering on the stove? It makes the house smell so warm and inviting.I found this recipe many years ago in a Taste of Home magazine. Richard and I loved it, but the girls thought it was too spicy. So when I made it I would cut way back on the pepper. Richard and I would then add our own pepper to suite our taste to our own bowls. I bet n
I love using just a few ingredients when I cook, that’s because sometime some of the simplest dishes are the best! The hardest choice about the dish is choosing weather to chose a soft or hard taco shell or maybe to just go for it and have a burrito. You can see that I decided to have both a hard and soft taco. And there is plenty left over so that I can have a burrito later. Crock-pot Chicken Tac
3 2 1 Yum! What a nice little treat and so simple to. When one is trying to watch their weight and want to have a little something then this little cake is perfect.Yes it is as simple as 3 2 1 cake! Just 3 tablespoons of cake mix and 2 tablespoons of water and 1 minute in the microwave is all it takes. My little dessert is only 2 points for the cake 1 point for the chocolate sauce and the strawber
When I was growing up I never ate cauliflower, not because I didn’t like it but because my parents never served it to me. Now when it came to my kids I used to serve it mixed together with carrots and broccoli, which is called California blend. But usually what was left in the bowl that no one wanted to eat was the cauliflower. I first made cauliflower this way many years ago when I first join Wei
This recipe was adapted from one that I found on the Weight Watchers web-site. I changed it up with the ingredient that I had on hand and also because I wanted a bigger portion then what the recipe called for, but with the same amount of points.One of the biggest challenges that I have when I am trying to eat health is portion control. I know what a portion is or at least what it is su
One of the best things about Weight Watchers is that you don’t have to give up sweets; you just need to make sure you count your points. That is why I love the program so much. I have been making this cake for years; it is one of my family’s favorites. One of the most important things to remember is that you don’t use any water just the cake mix and the can of crushed pineapple, it is just that si
It was time to go back to Weight Watcher. I tried to do it on my own and I just couldn’t. I should have known because Weight Watchers has always worked for me in the past.The first time I went to a Weight Watches meeting was over 10 years ago and I lost 30 pounds and I made Lifetime. Over time life got and the way, I got busy with my kids and all their activities, and I stopped going to the meetin
I love butter cream frosting and it is so easy to make, I know that when you learn how easy it is you will never buy the can stuff again!I used two different flavors for this cake a Vanilla Butter-Cream and a Chocolate Butter-cream. If you want to learn more about the cake pan that I used you can go to my other blog On Stefanie’s Crafty Side. Vanilla Butter Cream Frosting½ cup butter (1 stick
Better get the milk ready for this one! Because if you love peanut butter and I know you do. Then this cake is just what you need.This cake is going to church with me tomorrow, because if I keep this in my house I know for a fact I will be eating the whole thing! I already had two slices and I am thinking about having a third!Peanut Butter Texas Sheet Cake2 cups flour2 cups sugar½ teaspoon salt1 t
Who doesn’t love macaroni and cheese? And what if you turn that all time favorite into another all time favorite. Lasagna! I bought these off brand boxes of macaroni and cheese and every time that I would make them I would hear that it didn’t taste the same as Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. Which lead to me finding out ways of using up the boxes that I had left? Will I found this recipe on the Kr
This is a very easy cobbler recipe and very tasty too. I had this can of peaches for awhile now I bought it last year to make a peach cake with but never got around to baking it, at least that’s what I think I bought the peaches for. Like I sais in my previous post I am trying to come up with or find recipes to use up my food in the pantry before I go shopping for more.I have a wonderful cob
Yes I know it has been awhile since I posted anything, but sometimes, time has a way of slipping by and before you even know it has been a few months before you posted anything. Well now, because I am trying to us up all the food, that I have accumulated in, my pantry and freezer, my creative juices have started to flow again.Well today I decided to make potato soup, because my onions were startin
I have written in the past about how much I love Sloppy Joes. I posted a recipe a few years ago for Sloppy Joes that I would make for my girls when they were young. Will the other day I decided to try something new. I found a recipe in a cookbook by Land O Lakes. I adapted their recipe into a Sloppy Joe. And if I do say so myself, it turned out very tasty. But you don’t have to take my word for it
I wasn’t planning on making supper last night but when I got an email from Bisquick I just knew that I needed to make to make the pie that was featured. It looked so delicious on the screen that I wanted to lick it clean! It was so simple to make and I always have the ingredients in my house. Richard wasn’t home to enjoy it last night so I packed him a couple of slices for him to take in his
What a great combination peanut butter and chocolate! This is another cake that doesn’t last long in my house and that is saying a lot when there are only three people living here. It is so moist and the frosting is so creamy, you will defiantly need a tall glass of milk with this one! I loved it so much that I had it for my supper last night. That the beauty of not having any one home to cook f
This is a very popular recipe and I have seen many different versions. This is my twist on the recipe. If you don’t know what Ro-Tel it is a spicy canned tomato and you can usually find it on the same shelf as your regular tomatoes. If you still can’t find them you can use tomatoes with diced green chilies. . I used the mild Ro-Tel tomatoes because Ariel doesn’t like it when I make things to
I made this cookie for my husband Richard last week. M&M’s just happen to be one of his favorite candies. I like to make him something special every once in awhile to take in his lunch for work. When he came home from work and saw them cooling on the racks, fresh out of the oven he walk right over to the cookies without even saying hello and asked are these for me, with a big smile on his face
It’s peach time! When I was letting the dogs out into the back yard yesterday I notice that there were a few peaches on the ground under the tree. And I said to myself the peaches must be getting rip. So this morning I went out to check and sure enough some were. Ok so what goodies am I going to make with these peaches? Why not a cake I thought I have never made a peach cake before, so I too
Who would have guessed that when I made this pie that it would have started a family feud! This pie can about when Richard and I walked past a Hostess display at the store the other day. I stopped and looked to see if they had one of my favorites the Suzy Q and of course they didn’t. Which led us into a discussion about Hostess treats that we love. Richard mentioned that one of his favorite from h
Take a look at the size of this pasta! It's like a giant cork-screw! I found this a few months ago at Target. I was thinking about what recipe that I could use this in, maybe a pasta bake or a mac-cheese dish. Or maybe some kind of an unusual pasta sauce to go with such unusual pasta. Well I finally decided to go with the sauce that was written on the back of the package. The only thing
How can on plant produce so much zucchini! The other day I checked on the zucchini and they were still a little small so I decided to wait a few days more. Well I think you can guess what happened. I came home from work and there was this giant zucchini sitting on the kitchen counter, I asked Richard where did that come from he said our garden. Wow! Those things grow fast! So I guess it time to st
Nothing beats a fresh veggie salad especially when those veggies come from your own garden. When I went out to check and see what was ready to pick I found a few cucumbers and some ripe tomatoes. And this salad came to mind. I have never really had a recipe for this I usually just toss everything in a bowl. I usually use a purple onion because it is Richard favorite, but all I had was a white
When I made this dish last weekend I had a good size serving, and then I couldn’t stop thinking about how good and cheesy it tasted. I finally gave in and had another big serving! Richard also loved it so much he asked me to make it again last night.This recipe is a combination of two different recipes from a cookbook that I bought over 20 years ago, and I also added my own little twist to it. The
As I had mentioned before in my post Zucchini Bread, I have a zucchini plant and I am trying to think up recipes that I could make with my abundance of zucchini. One dish that I have always wanted to try was Eggplant Parmesan, but my husband Richard has always told me that he hates eggplant so I never tried to make it. Well I was thinking why not use the zucchini in place of the eggplant. And
What am I suppose to do with this bag of apple? Ariel asked me a few weeks ago if I would buy her some granny smith apples. You see I always keep Fuji apples in the house because they are mine and Richards’s favorites. But Ariel likes Granny Smith; it used to be my favorite also. That was before I tasted my first Fuji apple. But when it comes to baking I like to use the Granny Smith. So what recip
Richard and I went to the Mercy Me concert last night at the Stanislaus County Fair with some friends from our church. The night started out with pizza at Tary’s here in Atwater. Then we met up at the fairgrounds in Turlock. Mercy Me was wonderful and a great time was had by all. It was great to share such a night with my friends and family memories to last a life time.And now let me share, a fun
My beautiful little garden that I talked about on my other blog has started to produce zucchini.And if you have every planted a zucchini plant before than you know what is about to happen. I will be having zucchinis coming out my ears. That can be a blessing as well as a curse. On one hand my family gets to eat zucchini bread and all the other dishes that I can come up with. But one the other hand
As I mention in my previous posting that I bought a package of egg roll wrappers for a recipe that I had in mind, will this is it. I thought why not use egg roll wrappers in place of the pie crust that I normally use when I make apple dumplings. It was a lot less work. And it did cut bake on the calories. If you want you could cut back a lot more if you use Splenda blend in place of the sugar that
The other day I bought a package of eggroll wrappers because I had another dish in mind; which I will be sharing in a few days. But let me tell you about how I came up with this dish.In the package of eggroll wrappers there was a recipe for Cannelloni which is also called manicotti. The recipe sounded good but of course I wanted to do something different. I decided to use my own pasta sauce recipe
Hey what is that up in the sky is that my Strawberry Pie! No it's our new air conditioner!If you have been following my blog then you know that I have been with out an a/c for a week. Will they showed up this morning to take our old one away and to bring us a bright and shinny new one.This is our old one. It is the only A/C that this house has ever known, it has been working hard for 28 years
HELP! I am having baking withdrawals!I am not kidding I haven’t had an air conditioner for a week. And the temperature has been over a hundred degrees this week. When a person like me who loves to cook and bake and can’t, it can make you go a little stir crazy.We will be getting a new A/C on Monday but in the meantime we are trying to keep the house cool by not turning on the oven. And that’s why
The other day I received my first Blog Award from a fellow blogger Countryside Dish! It is such an honer to be recognized by a fellow blogger!As per the rules, Accept the award, post it in your blog with the link of the person who has shared it with you Pass it on to more bloggers Let the nominated bloggers know about their award (just post a comment in their blog) I would like to p
I was thinking about this simple dish the other day when I notice a package of frozen burrito in my freezer. I used to make this for my girls when they were younger. Back then I would use can enchilada sauce. But now I make my own enchilada sauce, we like it much better. But you can use what every kind of sauce you like. In this recipe I use the bean and cheese burrito, but you choose the flavor y
There were so many times when my girls were growing up that I always need to get dinner on the table in a hurry. And being a child who grew up eating Hamburger Helper a lot for dinner I just didn’t want to have my children growing up on it to. It’s all right sometimes I guess but I have notice that over the years the amount of pasta that you get in the box of mix has changed and you almost have to
Happy 4TH of July everyone! Yes I know that today is the 3rd of July but I wanted to give you something special to enjoy for your 4th! S’mores! Yes you heard me right S’mores and what a cool and different way to serve them then in an ooey gooey bar!This recipe was sent to me in an email from Betty Crocker called S’mores ,s’mores, s’mores and I just had to make and share one of the recipes with you
I made these sandwiches a few weeks ago but I never posted them. I take the photos and write down the recipe as I am cooking, we enjoy eating the dish but I just don’t get around to blogging about them. It’s amazing how many photos that I deleted today because I have missed place the papers that I wrote the recipes on. Yes I guess I could just make up a recipe to go with the photos but to me
This is another great recipe giving to me by my friend Mary, who also gave me the Scandinavian Almond Bars recipe. She served this coffee cake at a brunch at her house last year. It looked so beautiful and yummy that I just had to have the recipe. The original recipe didn’t call for a glaze so I added that and I change the name. I added the word enticing, because that's what it does. I a
I have been on a few Carnival cruises in my life and one of the things I look forward to the most; besides sitting on the deck in a lounge chair with a book in one hand and a drink in the other are these flaky little pastries. They serve them every morning at breakfast and I always eat one or two; ok! To tell you the truth it more like; four! So the other day at the store I threw a box of pu
Chili Verde happens to be my favorite Mexican dish. There are a few local restaurants that this is the only dish that Richard and I order. I have made this dish a few times but I had never written down a recipe for it.I know that to make this dish the traditional way I would roast tomatillo and then blend them with peppers and onions and a few other ingredients to make Verde salsa. But it’s easier
My friend Tammy posted on Facebook that she was going to be making dinner for some special friends tonight and that she was going to also be making an Italian Love cake for dessert. I thought that is nice of her, she is always doing nice things for people. But what is an Italian Love cake. I just had to find out. So I looked it up on the net, and there were a lot of hits. The recipe was the same o
Its funny how my mind works sometimes, it goes into what I call recipe mode and I can’t turn it off until I make something new. You see I rarely cook the same recipe twice except when it comes to baking. Yes I have a lot of tried and true recipes that I love to bake. But when it comes to cooking I always want to eat something new and try something different.I was talking to Richard about that this
My daughter Brandy is a little obsessed with this show called Extreme Couponing, to the point when she came home for a visit the other day she turned it on and had me and Ariel watch it. When they saved a lot of money she got just as excited as the people on the show. She says that’s why we need to clip coupon too. So when we went to the store, so that she could buy Richard a father’s day gift. Sh
When I woke up the morning I was thinking today would be a good day the bake a chocolate cake. Will to tell you the truth any day is a good day for chocolate cake! I have always wanted to try the cake recipe off the back of the canister of Hershey’s cocoa powder. I am glad that I did. This cake is super moist and the frosting is so creamy and chocolaty. I will defiantly be making this cake again!H
While I was waiting at the doctors the other day I was looking through a few magazines when I came across this recipe in Family Circle. Will instead of writing down the recipe, because I didn’t think I had enough time and because the receptionist was busy I took a picture of the recipe with my new cell phone. I told Richard who was sitting nearby that I felt like a spy sneaking around taking photo
This recipe can be prepared in the oven or in a crock-pot. It will be delicious either way.Oven Baked Beef Stew1 pound beef stew meat1 tablespoon vegetable oil½ teaspoon salt¼ teaspoon pepper½ teaspoon garlic powder4 medium potatoes (cut into cubes)2 cups baby carrots1 cup pearl onions2 tablespoons tomato paste1 (14 oz.) can beef broth1 can cream of mushroom soup1 envelope dry onion soup mix1 teas
I love banana pudding I don’t make it that often because I could eat the whole dish. This dessert can take a little time to prepare but it is so worth it, what could be a better combination that cookies, pudding and bananas.This pudding is very popular in the south. I remember my Grandma Whitley making it sometimes for dessert for Sunday dinner. One time she even replaced the bananas with crushed
I was telling Richard this morning that I was thinking about baking some cookies today. He said goodie goodie I would love some cookies. Ok I asked what kind would you like, peanut butter, chocolate chip or oatmeal. He said Oh! That sounds good. I said which one; I was only going to bake just one kind. He said why couldn’t you bake a peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. Ok why not, I don’t
I know that I haven’t been posting any recipes lately. I really haven’t been cooking that much. When I do I just take a picture and eat the dish, I just never seem to be in the mood to post them. I now have a folder full of pictures of food and I have most of the recipes written down and unfortunately I have also lost a few of them. I guess I will have to try and prepare them again, but that will
