Category: recipes

  • Lemon Pound Cake

    Lemon Pound Cake

    This recipe with a few minor changes is from “Mrs. Fields” Cookie Book (1992).  It is delicious, moist and even lemony enough for me. I like my lemon anything to be LEMON. 2 cups sugar1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature1/3 cup buttermilk6 eggs2 tsp lemon extract1 tbsp grated lemon zest3 cups flour1/2 tsp salt1 tsp…

  • Sausage & Bean Dip

    Sausage & Bean Dip

    Your can never go wrong with a great Sausage & Bean Dip.  This recipe quickly became a favorite at our house and you may as well not bother with dinner after, go straight to dessert, it is very filling and you  just won’t want to eat just a little bit. Try it this weekend for…

  • Ham Fried Rice

    Ham Fried Rice

    My sons are like a lot of kids these days ( they are not little), they are not big fans of vegetables.  When I have served cooked broccoli and raw carrots for weeks I through in a wild card that I know they like and will eat a lot of.   I make “Ham Fried Rice”.  3 Tbsp. olive…

  • Homemade Maple Syrup

    Homemade Maple Syrup

    One of my fondest memories as a child was waking up to waffles on Saturday mornings.  It was what we did every Saturday.  My mom would get up and make us breakfast, I think it is the only thing that would get my brother out of bed on a Saturday.  Well, with those waffles always…

  • Gingerbread Forest

    Gingerbread Forest

    Sometimes I think we want to try new things and upgrade, so to speak, that we have a tendency to forget about old favorites.  I used to make this Gingerbread Forest  when my children were little and then when grandma hung her big mirror on the wall I stopped.  Last year we purchased a mirror…