cookies

Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Of all the cookbooks I have in life, I love this one the most. My old, worn down allrecipes cookie collection.  It’s like fifty cents used on Amazon, and it is AMAZING.  It is full of some of my very favorite cookie recipes of all time.  Any time I feel like making cookies, I just… Continue reading Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

banana recipes · Breads

Blueberry Banana Bread

I really love banana bread.  I constantly find myself with overripe bananas and it is kind of the staple thing that I just whip up really quick when I do.  My kids love it, which is nice, I can’t stay away from it, which is bad (for my thighs) and it’s just a really delicious… Continue reading Blueberry Banana Bread

Biscuits / Muffins / Scones · Breakfast

Strawberry Scones

Well, y’all, what I like to call “brunch season” is upon us.  Easter. Mother’s Day. Father’s Day. Bridal Showers.  If you’re like me, and you host a lot of brunches, then you will appreciate this fabulous new scone recipe. These scones are sweet, fluffy yet crunchy, moist, and to top them off, I drizzled them… Continue reading Strawberry Scones

cookies

Shopping Mall M&M Sugar Cookies

Shopping Mall M&M Sugar Cookies.  You all know exactly what I’m talking about.  Whether your mall had a Mrs. Fields or an Original Cookie Company, or The Great American Cookie Company, they all had the same thing. And the cookie I always wanted when I was a kid was the sugar cookie with M&M’s stuck… Continue reading Shopping Mall M&M Sugar Cookies

christmas · Desserts

Eggnog Bars

Today, we headed out into the winter landscape and selected our Christmas tree.  It is a family tradition we have to head out North in our ol’ front wheel drive sleigh and cut one down ourselves.   It is a lot of work (for my husband, since he’s the one who has to cut it… Continue reading Eggnog Bars

Fall (Halloween & Thanksgiving)

How to Cook a Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey (with photo directions)

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! If you’re here for my Thanksgiving Turkey post, and the pictures look a little different, do not be confused, for I have updated them from the pictures I took in the dark with a camera sitting on a book on my kitchen counter 4 years ago. Remember that scene in National Lampoon’s… Continue reading How to Cook a Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey (with photo directions)

Breads · Breakfast · Fall (Halloween & Thanksgiving) · Uncategorized

Starbucks Pumpkin Pound Cake

You know the old cartoons where somebody like Daffy Duck would be thinking about his next move, and he’d have a little devil on one shoulder and a little angel on the other shoulder, each telling him what to do? I have those too, but not a devil and an angel.  My life is a… Continue reading Starbucks Pumpkin Pound Cake