Recipes, food, travel, and family
Cranberry Pistachio Shortbread Cookies These cookies my sister and I came up with over the phone. She helped me decide all the ingredients. I wanted some ideas for making up cookies. She wanted pistachios in them. I suggested cherries or cranberries with it and she said cranberry. Next came deciding the dough, I thought a […]
Spinach Artichoke Dip My family loves spinach. When I make it for dinner we have to have 3 large bags of frozen spinach. We keep fresh spinach in the fridge to eat as salad, toss in eggs, and put on a sandwich. One of my middle children LOVES Spinach Artichoke Dip and requests it every […]
Avocado Hummus The first time I tasted hummus I thought it was just nasty. I have an open mind and decided to try one that was with sundried tomatoes. I liked it, so I tried another one and liked it too! Now we make hummus as a quick snack around the house. We also LOVE […]
Community Garden We are very lucky to have a community garden in our neighborhood. We can help plant and care for the produce, along with enjoying the food. Our Girl Scout Troop recently went up to the garden and helped plant. The girls were each able to pick things like carrots, green onions, cabbage and […]
Throwback Thursday Great, Great, Great Aunt Amy’s Peanut Butter Cookies It’s Throwback Thursday again!!!! I am having a good time writing these recipes. My Great Great Great Aunt Amy (we just called her aunt Amy) was a very important part of my life. First of all I get my name from her and I […]
Colored Sugar Recipe: You need ¼ cup of sugar and 5-7 drops of food coloring Place sugar is a shallow bowl. Place drops of food coloring (remember you can add more color later, you can add more later) smash the food coloring into the sugar, I added more to make it more of […]
This morning my first grandson was born. He weighed in at a whopping 9 pounds and 1 ounce. He is 21 inches long. Mother and baby are comfortably resting and trying to learn to breastfeed. He is perfect and going to be such a blessing to her life! If only she could see how […]
Breakfast “Sushi” I tend to purchase to many tortilla shells. They don’t last long once you open that package either. Here is one way we figured to use some of them up. The kids can make these themselves, except the slicing part. Breakfast sushi is a family favorite these days. Enjoy! Breakfast Sushi 2 peeled […]
C has been in labor since early morning. W should be born anytime and I will be a Granny!
These are a hit in my household. Full of nutrients and yummy. I have a food dehydrator That I love. I have had it for about 7 years now. It works great! I have also made the kale chips in the oven and the come out good too; although I did slightly burn them once. […]
Orange Fluff I grew up with my mom making this with green jello and crushed pineapple instead. Then my Grandma started to make it with mandarin oranges and it quickly became our favorite! It’s so light and fluffy. Yummy dessert for tonight Orange Fluff Recipe: Ingredients: 8 ounces (1 container) of cool whip 1 pkg […]
Happy Mother’s Day My memories with my mom…………………………When someone asks me about my mom, my mind goes straight to Halloween. My mom is SUPER creative and she loved to dress up herself too! One year we dressed up as Rubik’s cubes. Rubik’s […]
