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Grilled Chicken Citrus Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette
I saw this recipe on Our Best Bites and thought; hmmm…. that looks pretty good and then Friday afternoon, Craig and I went to Panera Bread. I had the Strawberry Poppy-seed Salad and thought I could eat this everyday and not be bored, it was so good. These two events hatched an idea and ta da, this recipe was born. Read the rest of this entry
Baked Apple French Toast
Have I told you in my church I work with young ladies ages 12 and 13? Every week we have a nightly activity; either with other young women 14-18 and/or other young men ages 12-18 or just our small group. These activities all should be planned and directed by the young women themselves with guidance by their adult leader. in this case me. This Sunday morning, I invited my 4 young Beehives, for that is what we call them, over for breakfast and a planning meeting. It was successful in 3 ways; one – I got to know these beautiful girls better, two – we did some great planning and scheduling with activities and three – we ate a delicious breakfast of baked apple French Toast. So delicious in fact that I wanted to share with you the recipe. Read the rest of this entry
From the Garden
I know this is a cooking blog, but this dandy little treat has its own ingredients straight from the garden and you can whip one up too. It is to encourage a little creativity with what you have on hand and put them together in your own style. Use your imagination and make your own arrangement. When you see my list of ingredients you might think it is a delicious recipe too. Read the rest of this entry
Pork Tacos
Monday night I made “pork roast with apples and onions” from Pioneer Woman for dinner. It was delicious but way more than Craig and I need to eat in 1 sitting. Which means leftover pork – so much that I even froze some for another day down the road but there was still plenty for a 2nd meal this week. Read the rest of this entry
Double chocolate and dried cherries cookies
Easter Sunday, Craig and I went to his sister Velyn’s for dinner. Saturday, when we received the invite I had just taken my cheesecake out of the oven and I volunteered to bring dessert. It occurred to me that perhaps the cheesecake would not turn out and I needed a fall back plan, the cookies came from this… Read the rest of this entry
Swirled Strawberry & Chocolate Cheesecake
This was a first for me. Can you imagine a 50 year old woman having never baked a cheese cake before? Well, I haven’t. I have made cheesecake before but they involved jello or cool whip, never baked. I used to make a delicious lemon cheesecake with lemon jello and it was so moist – I even convinced a young man when I was in college that cheesecake can be delicious with that recipe. I still have the recipe and it is about as time consuming as a baked cheesecake but it did not allow for playing around with, it was a one way only recipe. This current recipe is adaptable, Read the rest of this entry
Banana Blueberry Bread
Oh, how I love a good banana bread. This one just took it to the next level. I combined two recipes taking the best of each part and made one. Read the rest of this entry
