Recipes

Yesterday was my son’s 7th birthday and as I do for every birthday in my house, I make whatever kind of cake they request.  This year, the request was a “cannon” cake.  I will be posting on the cake design in my next post. For now, here is the recipe for the filling inside the…

I originally posted this recipe last summer but completely forgot about it until yesterday, when I was chatting with my neighbor and she mentioned that I could make this recipe for dinner.  Needing something fast and cool, I thought I would make this again. Wow! It was a hit with everybody and I loved how…

Last summer, I made this pickle recipe and throughout the winter, we have been enjoying them.  By far, these have turned out the best over many others that I have tried.  These have a strong dill flavor to them and if you process them correctly, they will come out crisp, just like what you get…

The last couple of weeks, I’ve been on a mission to clean up those odds and ends of food laying around.  One of those items have been cranberries left over from the holidays.  They were a little dehydrated and I did need to pick over them to make sure there were no bad ones, but…

My family really enjoys this recipe for wheat bread. In the past when I have made wheat bread, it usually just comes out very dense and just lacking any flavor. But this recipe is such a wonderful change to that. It uses honey instead of sugar (a huge plus in my mind) and contains very…

Yesterday, I was in charge of organizing a mid-winter banquet at our church. We had almost 80 mouths to feed and prepared all of the food by hand.  Part of the day was having 20 kids, mostly ages 9 and under, prepare the food, decorate and prepare the facility for the evening.  For the main…