Bringing "back in the day" back to today
I had a craving for peanut butter cookies today. I started looking around to see if I could find anything interesting as far as recipes go. I saw lots of interesting things, cookies filled with 41 different types of chocolate or gluten free and super healthy, but that was not what I was looking for. …
Let me begin this with a warning. Knowing how to make a truly great Crème Brûlée at home is dangerous. My wife and I came to appreciate a good Crème Brûlée at a local restaurant. It’s a common destination for our date nights because it is close and has really good food, but mostly for the Crème Brûlée. …
It’s almost Valentine’s Day and nothing says love quite like chocolate covered strawberries. Show your favorite person exactly how much they mean to you by making them a gift that they will adore, almost as much as they adore you! If you have never worked with melting chocolate, now is the time to start. It’s …
If you are in are need of a sweet treat, don’t want to dedicate too much time, and have limited ingredients on hand, this is the recipe for you!
Making everything from scratch means no more buying Oreo cookies, boxed brownies or grocery store “bakery” cupcakes. Tasty treats were in low supply this weekend and with another school week on the way I was in some serious need of a sweet treat for my children’s lunches. My plan was to make chocolate chip cookies. …
It was 8 PM and I wanted cookies. This was after a major snowstorm and in the middle of a cold snap. Food supplies were getting low and the grocery store just called to say they couldn’t deliver my groceries. That’s okay, I thought. I can make snickerdoodles because I always have those ingredients …
Too many people think that Jell-O “no bake” is an acceptable method of making cheesecake. It is NOT for two reasons: It is not from scratch. It is not good! Stop being intimidated by cheesecake people! This is one of the easiest desserts on the planet. If you can follow directions, you can make this …
Prior to the discovery of this recipe, Jell-O cook and serve was “from scratch” pudding in my book. So what’s a girl to do with an unopened gallon of milk that was hiding in the back of the refrigerator and is about to expire? Instinct sent me to the pantry in serve of that familiar …