Summer’s Best – Zucchini!
As you may know if you have read some of my blog, I have a vegetable garden. All the planting has been done for a few weeks now. We have been watering (and weeding) faithfully. Seeds have sprouted and with Spring well under way, I am now impatiently looking forward to [...]
Do your bananas ever look like this? Surprisingly, it happens in our house quite often. I have a hard time understanding it, though. My daughter likes them almost totally green. The little ones like them just barely yellow and I like them just before they turn brown. How is it that some of them get [...]
You gotta love a crock pot! I love corned beef brisket, but it takes a long time to cook on the stovetop or oven. So, I don’t do it that way. I use my crock pot to cook my corned beef. It is so easy and so delicious! I hope you give this recipe a [...]
My family like most other families – loves pizza. For years now Friday night has been pizza night at our house. Pizza Night is one of our favorite family traditions. Sometimes we pizza for take-out, but lately more often than not, we make our own pizza. We love pizza. Any pizza will due. Tonight is [...]
Could anyone say it any better? Chocolate is a wonderful thing! Of course Betty Crocker would know. But, what do we know about chocolate?
Today, research has shown that chocolate has some health benefits. Over 300 naturally occurring chemicals are found in chocolate. In a study conducted by Andrew Waterhouse, chocolate was found to have potent [...]
I sure wouldn’t know it was National Pancake Day if I hadn’t watched the morning news. I “googled” National Pancake Day and sure enough, today is National Pancake Day! So, in honor of National Pancake Day, here is my favorite pancake recipe:
The Best Pancake Recipe (makes about 16 small pancakes)
Ingredients:
1/2 – 3/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons [...]
Who doesn’t love popcorn? Popcorn is definitely one of my favorite snacks and my whole family loves it, also. I don’t really care for the microwave type of popcorn, but it will do in a pinch. What I really love is corn popped the old-fashioned way on the stove in a heavy [...]
When it is cold and cloudy, and it is, I just turn into a great big old grumpy bear. The only thing I want to do is hibernate. Luckily, it’s the weekend and I have a little flexibility in my schedule, so I may try to sneak in a nap, but I can’t [...]
Tonight my daughter and her family are coming over for dinner. I don’t want to spend the whole night cooking. I want to spend time with my grandsons, so I will use one of my favorite quick fix recipes for dinner. I am going to pick up some fresh french bread on the way home [...]
I love meals when the whole family sits down together. Dinner in our house is always everyone at the table. We talk, eat, laugh and just have a great time being together. I really enjoy it when we have breakfast or brunch together. No one is tired or grumpy that early in the day and [...]
