Category: recipes

  • Simple Brown Rice Pilaf

    Simple Brown Rice Pilaf

    We love using fresh herbs from our garden. It’s not a very big herb garden but we do enjoy it. Besides using them in our grilled chicken marinades we like to use them in our rice dishes.  Sunday’s choice was this simple recipe for “Brown Rice Pilaf” Ingredients 1/2 cup onion chopped 1/2 cup celery…

  • Raspberry-Banana-Pineapple Sherbet

    Raspberry-Banana-Pineapple Sherbet

        Just 3 ingredients in this recipe, frozen raspberries, bananas and pineapple sherbet make this fruity refreshing dessert.  It is enjoyable in summer, festive at Christmas and  yes, even great for weddings.         When Margaret got married all she wanted served to her guest was cake and ice cream.  Her father,…

  • Root Beer Float Trifle

    Root Beer Float Trifle

    My original plan was to make Root Beer float cupcakes… but my cupcakes fell below the bar… Literally.  They fell, it was awful!  I could not fill them, just putting frosting on made it so there was way too much frosting, I could do nothing, but eat them as they were.  I was a bout…

  • Decorators Frosting

    Decorators Frosting

    I’m still learning and experimenting with Cake Decorating. I wanted to share my latest creation.  I decorated Minnie Mouse for my little 2 year old. She loves Minnie. I’m not a great artist like my mom, but I can trace with the best of them. I found a coloring picture of Minnie Mouse on Pinterest…

  • Chicken & Veggies with Cheese

    Chicken & Veggies with Cheese

    I have grown very tired of rice, so we are moving to potatoes for a while.  One of my favorite things to do with potatoes is oven fried potatoes, but I don’t always like having to turn on the oven and heat up the entire house during the summer.  So, I set out to mimic…