Category: recipes

  • Country Fried Steak

    Country Fried Steak

    Country Fried Steak is one of my favorite things to order when I go out to eat.  Sadly I don’t get out as often as I would like so I made make my favorite dishes at home. Country Fried Steak 1 pound boneless top round steak (I like to buy cubed steak) 3/4 coup dry…

  • Snicker Cookie Bars

    Snicker Cookie Bars

    I enjoy Snicker bars. Halloween is the only time of year that I buy enough candy to make this recipe. These Snicker cookie bars are kind of like short bread and not supper sweet. Recipe 3 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 cup butter 1 cup brown sugar, packed 2 eggs…

  • Apple Cake and Dip

    Apple Cake and Dip

    It is that time of year when wonderful fruits and vegetables are harvested. We love new crop apples. They are sweet, crisp and it’s time to bake with them. This recipe is another old one of my mother’s. I don’t know it’s origin. I just remember how much I loved it when she baked it.  My…

  • Crunch Top Salad

    Crunch Top Salad

    For years my husband and I made fun of jello salads, basically banning them from any dinner party. Growing up in Utah at the time we did it was at every dinner family or church.  Then we found this recipe.  “Crunch Top Salad” It is more like dessert than a salad. It is now a…

  • Coconut Cream Pie

    Coconut Cream Pie

    It really is too bad that we like desserts so much. It makes it terribly hard to resist such great recipes when trying to loose weight. Here is Great Grandma’s (my mom’s) favorite pie recipe. “Coconut Cream” 3/4 cup sugar 1/3 cup flour 1/4 tsp salt 2 cups milk 3 eggs separated 2 tbsp butter…