I love to cook - especially ethnic dishes, and from scratch/my pantry. I love foods that combine surprising tastes and textures, and my interests are fairly eclectic. I'm excited to have a site to direct people to when they ask for my recipes!
This is truly an original recipe - I don't even remember where I learned how to make this, but once or twice a year when I want to make something that's a (...)
I lived in Guatemala for a while many years ago, and learned that Guatemalans love carne asada. I honestly never really understood what that meant since the (...)
We had a Relief Society (a religious women's organization) conference this past weekend, and I was asked to make 4 breakfast casseroles. They gave me the (...)
As a kid, I LOVED it when my mom frosted her cakes with 7 minute frosting...full of sweet marshmallowy goodness. Most recipes for this frosting require beating (...)
I know I should never start out with "I hate," but I feel strongly about this one. I hate Krusteaz Pancake mix - absolutely can't stand it. My husband loves (...)
It is Thanksgiving Eve, and as I began making my pies, I realized that I couldn't find my staple lemon meringue pie recipe, (my all time favorite pie...next to (...)
I found this recipe in the Cook's Kitchen Bible by Norma MacMillan. I love the elegant look and taste of this dessert. We traditionally serve this on Easter. 6 (...)
As I mentioned in a previous post, I ran into a stranger today at the grocery store who proceeded to verbally give me 3 of his favorite recipes.Since I am (...)
My friend saw these and said, 'those are the kind of treats you always see and pin, but never actually make'.These are jigglers, so they are perfect finger (...)
This is a favorite casserole we sometimes make for Christmas morning. The best part is that it is all made the night before, and it cooks away filling the (...)
It's summertime, which means corn on the cob time~we love that stuff!Growing up, I learned to prepare corn on the cob by shucking/husking it and boiling (...)
Looking for a new way to get your family to enjoy squash? I tried out this Butternut Bisque (a smooth creamy soup) earlier this week and am still enjoying the (...)
After I've processed my pumpkins in the fall, I use them for various recipes. While pureed pumpkin is definitely different from the store bought canned (...)
Here's my recipe for canned peaches. They won class champion at the county fair last year.Use whatever quantity you have. Blanch peaches.Peel and remove any (...)
I know that I've already posted some smoothie recipes, but when I made these this morning, my kids (the number one food critics) said that these were as good (...)
I found a book at a garage sale titled, "Simple Southwestern Cooking" by Judy Walker which I've really enjoyed. While my family loves flan, I have a hard time (...)
It took me a really long time to find a cornbread recipe that I liked...and then we decided to cut all animal products out of our diet. And so, following is (...)
Fall always seems to be soup weather at our home. I took this soup along with some homemade French Bread to a sick neighbor earlier this week. I had been (...)
Lasagna has always been a family favorite, and I've had to try several recipes until I found a combination of two different recipes which we like. I've tweaked (...)
Strawberry lemonade cake and checkerboard cake with lemon curd
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This cake is made using strawberry and white or lemon cake mixes, and is filled with lemon curd, with buttercream frosting. Checkerboard cakes are very simple (...)
You'd never believe I found these at my daughter's Halloween class party. There they were, sitting in a large tupper-ware container looking perfect. I snagged (...)
It has almost been two years since we started our plant based journey, and in those (almost) two years, I've made and tried some really bad cakes. I had pretty (...)
I loved making this stew today. It was made with simple ingredients, all of which I normally have on hand. It used two pots, a knife and cutting board, and (...)
