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Featured on Bakers’ Stock is this recipe for coconut cupcakes. Read more here. LOVE, LOVE these polka dot baking cups…available at Bakers’ Stock.
Confession…I have nothing to hide! Pinterest is an obsession… no another addiction of mine! When I should be doing the checkbook or cleaning the house, you’ll often find me on Pinterest. Just check out my Pinterest page…it’s proof! I asked my daughter the other day if I had too many Pinterest boards and she was [...]
When an opportunity came to me recently to participate in a spice giveaway with Cooking Planit, I never knew what that really meant until I started sharing my blogging with so many amazing food bloggers who participated in the same giveaway and individuals associated with Cooking Planit! I have shared, gained and learned a great [...]
Grandma Mam, who lived on this earth for over 100 years, was my husband’s grandmother on his father’s side of the family. She was an amazing lady, cook and gardener. I have such fond memories of going to her little house for family events. It was crowded, but that didn’t matter to anyone! We always [...]
I had always heard of Ranger Cookies and even had a few over the years, but never paid any attention to where they got their name. Then recently, I was going through my mom’s recipe cards with my sister and there it was… this recipe for Chocolate Chip Ranger Cookies. That told me the Ranger [...]
Hello everyone…Welcome to My Kitchen Addictions! This Missouri Farm Chick is tickled pink as this is a big day! I’m being featured on the SITS Girls site. I first learned about this community of women bloggers at a Bloggy Boot Camp, hosted by them, in St. Louis. I have continued to follow the SITS Girls, [...]
Manicotti is one of my husband’s favorite dishes! I don’t make it as often as I should. Maybe because it’s not the easiest dish to prepare. I don’t consider it super difficult to make, but it’s just a little time-consuming getting those pasta shells filled. I was thinking when I made this dish that I [...]
I was looking through some cookbooks from my shelf the other day in order to find something green to make for St.Patrick’s Day. As I looked through Trisha Yearwood’s Home Cooking I remembered I made her Key Lime Cake last year around this same time. It was the perfect find for green! This is a [...]
This is one of my favorite cream cheese icing recipes I have prepared over the years. It’s easy to make and ideal for swirling or swooping. This icing is best for spreading….not for decorating purposes. It’s thin, not thick like a decorator’s frosting. Like I said, swirl and swoop! I wish I knew where or [...]
HELLO… Today is a special day for two reasons. #1 It’s my husband’s birthday. #2 The spicy giveaway I referred to the other day begins! ONE WINNER, WHO ENTERS HERE AT MY KITCHEN ADDICTIONS, WILL WIN A SET OF 26 SPICES EVERY KITCHEN SHOULD HAVE. Follow these links to Cooking Planit and Spices, Inc. to see what spices [...]
It’s MONDAY, and I have a great desire to rewind the weekend and cherish a few more days spending time relaxing and relishing in my hobbies of cooking, reading, photography, celebrating a friend’s birthday, but most of all spending time with my family during my husband’s birthday celebration (which involved lots of time in my kitchen). On [...]
Big news at My Kitchen Addictions… We are part of a delicious giveaway from Cooking Planit! Over the next 25 days, 50 food bloggers, like this Missouri Farm Chick, have been given a set of 26 spices (worth over $100) to giveaway to our followers. Don’t miss out…You have up to 50 chances to win! [...]
Have made it for years… It was shared by a dear friend. Thank you Debbie Cook! This cake has become my SNOWED IN cake, because I always have the ingredients on hand. Easiest cake I’ve ever made for sure… Improves with age…better the third day…WACKY! There is an unusual instruction within the recipe! A zany [...]
My love of cooking comes from a wonderful mother who was a farmer’s wife, a housewife and a devoted full-time mother. She cooked, she cleaned, but most importantly…she LOVED. Mom taught me and my sister how to cook and took us to many 4-H meetings [...]
Making sugar cookies at Christmas, Halloween…and Valentine’s Day is a tradition. The recipe doesn’t change, but the way I decorate them does. When I saw this cool technique from Jennifer@Not Your Mamma’s Cookie, I had to give it a try. Jennifer, yours are beautiful and [...]
I’ve never been to Mardi Gras and haven’t typically celebrated the annual event, but I’m saluting the season by sharing a favorite dish from the south…Dirty Rice. My sister shared this recipe with me many years ago. I looked it up and discovered that Dirty [...]
Mexican food is my favorite! On Super Bowl Sunday, my husband made classic chicken quesadillas and they were not complete until we topped them with this pico de gallo. I literally live on this side in the summer months when tomatoes are plentiful, and [...]
I have made it no secret that I’m addicted to Food Network, but I’m here to confess I’ve found a new cooking show that I now call a favorite. The Chew is on during the day when I’m at school helping students find books that [...]
These COLLAPSIBLE MEASURING CUPS in trendy colors can be found, no…are used often, in my kitchen. Check out the Kitchen Tools page for more information.
I believe we all have that one stand by cookie or dessert in which we always have the ingredients on hand and prepare often. That cookie for me is this Peanut Butter No Bake Cookie. I have had this recipe for years…I’m talking back to [...]
My New Year’s resolution of following a healthier lifestyle causes me to search for new “healthier sweets” to curb my appetite for dessert. What better place to do this, I ask, is the wonderful world of Pinterest? I’m here to let you know that I found a [...]
As I sit down to reflect on 2012 and make my resolutions for 2013, I decide to add a declaration for blogging on My Kitchen Addictions. When I first launched My Kitchen Addictions, one of plans was to share with my readers my addiction to collecting cookbooks. I reflect and discover I have not done a super [...]
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas celebration with family and friends! Here is a rewind of our joyous family Christmas…a wonderful dinner followed by a Jesus celebration cake and fun white elephant exchange; breakfast consisting of a traditional menu of breakfast casserole, cinnamon rolls and hot [..
My daughter and I have been preparing these Christmas treats for lots of years! The fun part is finding pretty treat bags to put them in for gifts. I always buy the pretzel rods early, usually in November, as they are hard to find [...]
My sister, Debbie, shared this very, addictive…impossible not to eat from the spoon cheese ball recipe! It is so easy and quick to whip up to serve at a Christmas party or any place where people gather together. Just be prepared, though, because it doesn’t [...]
Okay, it’s not peach season in the Midwest, but you can still get great peaches at local farmer markets and in the produce section of the grocery store. I was looking through my photograph files today and found these pictures from this past summer. I prepared this tart when peach season was in full swing, [...]
This Lemon Bundt Cake was mother’s stand-by recipe for a friend in need, a family who lost a loved one or because Dad was hungry for it. She made it often and made it well and she passed it down to her daughters. I treasure this recipe card I have in my collection…it was typed [...]
Autumn is in full swing, so I chose to make Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting just for fun. Jump on over to Bakers Stock for the recipe on my guest post and also checkout the awesome brown cupcake liners I used for this fall desert.
Have I told you I’m a teacher? I’m a library media specialist who loves her work! I also love blogging and cooking and spending time in the kitchen, but I don’t have much time on my hands. When it comes to my vegetable beef soup I have to be patient though… well, a little bit! [...]
It’s no secret that I enjoy taking cooking classes. One favorite spot to do just that is the Midwest Living Culinary School at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. Instructor, Debbie Dance Uhrig, does a wonderful job educating her students, while making it fun and enjoyable! Recently, I attended Debbie’s class “Salute to the Fields [...]
I have prepared many different versions of Blackberry Cobbler over the years, but this Blackberry Cobbler Roll will go down in history as my very favorite! On this particular day, my daughter and I were spending some time in the kitchen together. I had the pleasure of teaching her how to make this family recipe! [...]
One thing I love to do is spend time in the kitchen with my grandchildren. When my granddaughter and grandson come for a long visit, we normally find something to cook up in the kitchen. We make a mess, but I consider it a mess worth made! Awhile back, I picked up a delightful children’s [...]
School is back in and I’m already thinking ahead to what I will put in my lunch box in the next few weeks. I prefer to take my own lunch, but quickly grow tired of the over-used deli meat and cheese sandwich. My mom and grandma prepared this pimento recipe often. My grandmother would put [...]
It has been a very hot and dry summer in the Midwest and it doesn’t show signs of ending anytime soon. Our garden has suffered greatly, but our herbs are thriving. I think the result of this success is that we planted our herbs in containers rather than in the ground and moved them close to [...]
Recently, I was invited to be a blog contributor at Bakers’ Stock. Since this happened on the same day I found my mother’s recipe for German Chocolate Cake, I quickly decided that this would be the feature recipe. Mother would be pleased…wish she could see it! Here is an excerpt from the guest post you [...]
I made this trifle for a family get-together when we were celebrating birthdays and at the same time Independence Day. It would also be fitting to make this patriotic trifle in honor of the 2012 Summer Olympics. It would be a perfect dessert or side if you are planning an Olympic themed party. I don’t [...]
My dear friend, Marla, gave me this recipe so many years ago. I knew Marla before I started teaching, but I really got to know her when I began. Marla was my teacher-mentor during my first year of teaching eighteen years ago and let me tell you…this beautiful lady got me through a lot! One [...]
This salad is simply lovely! A former teacher at our elementary school, Charissa, brought this to a carry-in and I just had to have the recipe. Since, I have taken this side dish to many events and made it for my family. It’s one of those salads, that when you take a bite, [...]
America’ Hometown Recipe Book Edited by Barbara Greenman Watching a segment on The Today Show the other day about a mom’s challenge to all of us to purchase only “made in America” products for one week really got me thinking about what I purchase for my kitchen alone. When I saw this cookbook at a [...]
Around the 4th of July every year, our family would visit all the wild blackberry patches around the farm. I have great memories of blackberry picking as a child. My husband and I took our grandson blackberry picking at the berry patch the other day, and he had a blast. Our grandson turned the event into [...]
Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave behind and impossible to forget. Ruth is that friend who is impossible to forget. Ruth was a co-worker at my very first job back in 1976. We shared a teller window at a local bank and wow, did we become fast friends. Even though she was [...]
My Grandmother Franklin taught me how to make this wonderful, summertime side…Fried Zucchini. Its the one squash that I love and the vegetable I look most forward to when garden items become abundant! I adore it fried, grilled and in baked in bread. It’s also great sliced and placed on a BLT…I call it BLTZ. [...]
My husband lost one of his dear uncles the other day. Our family shared some wonderful times and accumulated many great memories with this great man and his wife at their lake home, at Christmas Cove, over the years. When our kids were young, we would travel down a long, dirt road to arrive at [...]
I've become a big fan of Trisha Yearwood's new Food Network show...Trisha's Southern Kitchen. I've owned her two cookbooks for several years and prepared many of her recipes. I love how she incorporates stories about family and friends in her cookbooks and Food Network show. I can relate to her upbringing, where home-cooking was supreme and how meals brought
This Missouri Farm Chick is doing something a little different today. I'm sending you an invite to join "The Salad Social" at TidyMom, sponsored by The International Olive Council's Add Some Life campaign. So join us as we celebrate salads. I posted one of my favorite salads, Winter Fruit Salad with Lemon Poppy Seed Dressing, about a year ago. Yes, it'
There are no surprises here! My family, especially my grandchildren, love my Strawberry Jam. I've made jams and jellies for years. My mom taught me how to make the cooked version of strawberry and blackberry jams, but over the years I have changed over to making the freezer jam recipes. Unfortunately, we lost our strawberry patch of three years to frost and deer. We had
My husband just got a new, shiny gas grill and hasn't stopped grilling since. That's fine with me, because that means healthier eating and less clean-up in the kitchen. I was tired of the hamburgers and hot dogs so I told Steve I was going to venture outside the box and do something a little different. After looking thro
My husband just got a new, shiny gas grill and hasn’t stopped grilling since. That’s fine with me, because that means healthier eating and less clean-up in the kitchen. I was tired of the hamburgers and hot dogs so I told Steve I was going to venture outside the box and do something a little [...]
My husband and I dined at our favorite, local Mexican restaurant last night….Santa Fe. We enjoyed all the Mexican flavors and visited with one of our favorite waiters about how he celebrates Cinco de Mayo and about our upcoming trip to Mexico. We learned that our waiter lived near Riviera Maya before coming to Missouri. Since this [...]
My husband and I dined at our favorite, local Mexican restaurant last night....Santa Fe. We enjoyed all the Mexican flavors and visited with one of our favorite waiters about how he celebrates Cinco de Mayo and about our upcoming trip to Mexico. We learned that our waiter lived near Riviera Maya before coming to Missouri. Since this is where we are going, our conversa
