Another easy recipe (notice a theme? We like easy in our house….)
1 white or yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1/3 C oil
1 1/2 C water
3 C chopped rhubarb
1/2 C sugar
2 C heavy cream [Read more…]
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by holly
Another easy recipe (notice a theme? We like easy in our house….)
1 white or yellow cake mix
3 eggs
1/3 C oil
1 1/2 C water
3 C chopped rhubarb
1/2 C sugar
2 C heavy cream [Read more…]
by holly

I love this stuff. It’s beautiful and tastes divine.
1 c. mashed fully ripe bananas (about 3 med. sized)
3 1/4 c. mashed fully ripe peaches (about 2 lbs. peaches, peeled)
1/2 c. drained chopped maraschino cherries
2 tbsp. lemon juice
6 c. sugar
1 box powdered fruit pectin (1/3 C if using bulk pectin). [Read more…]
by holly
Pineapple in your chili?! Actually, it’s pretty darn good.
As you might imagine, this chili is on the sweet side.
It’s also super easy to make and one of our go-to meals in the colder months.
This is the normal-sized version. I triple it (or so) when I make it.
1 pound ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
2 cans kidney beans
2 cans pork and beans, undrained
2 cans (20 oz. size) can pineapple chunks, undrained
2 qts pureed tomatoes
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 C chili powder – adjust to taste
4 C cooked rice (or so)
Directions:
In a large pan, brown beef and onion; drain fat. Stir in remaining ingredients. Bring to a simmer, stirring often so the rice doesn’t stick on the bottom of the pan.
by holly
Yummy!!
1 large onion, chopped
1/2 pound of bacon, chopped
2 C cooked pumpkin
1 cup water
2 cups apple cider
4 cubes chicken bouillon
1 apple, chopped and unpeeled
dash of liquid smoke
1 tsp salt (might want more) [Read more…]
by holly
We LOVE these cookies! You can use fresh or frozen cranberries but pat the frozen cranberries dry after chopping and don’t overmix. Also, pick through your fresh cranberries carefully – I discard any squishy ones, even if they still look whole because one rotten cranberry will spoil your whole batch. Believe me.
1 C white sugar
3/4 C packed brown sugar
1/2 C butter, softened
1/4 C milk
2 Tbsp orange juice
1 egg
3 C flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 1/2 C coarsely chopped cranberries
1 C chopped pistachios
1 C chocolate chips
Heat oven to 375. Mix sugars and butter. Stir in milk, orange juice and egg. Stir in flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Carefully stir in cranberries, nuts and chocolate chips. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfulls about 2 inches apart on greased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until lightly browned. About 5 1/2 dozen. Oh, and you can’t double this one in a regular Kitchen-Aid – it’s too much for it.
by holly
Oh-so-good. These are the best orange rolls we’ve ever made.
We used 1/2 batch of our normal bread recipe, or the equivalent amount of dough required to make two loaves of bread. You can even use frozen bread dough.
Filling:
5 TBL butter, softened
1/2 C sugar
1 TBL orange juice
1 tsp. orange extract
1 tsp grated orange peel
Orange Glaze:
3 c. confectioner’s sugar
1/3 C orange juice
1 tsp. orange extract and/or grated orange peel
Mix filling together. Roll bread dough into approximately an 18 X 12-inch rectangle on a surface sprayed with PAM spray. Spoon the filling onto the dough, spreading the filling out to touch 3 sides, leaving the long edge closest to you free of filling. This is to help it stick when you roll it later. Once filling is spread out evenly, begin to roll the dough towards you, jelly-roll style. Once dough has become a long cylinder, pinch the edges of dough together.
Slice dough in 3/4 inch increments, using a piece of thread. (Cut about a foot of thread. Slide the thread under the dough. When you have the thread where you’d like to make the cut, cross the two ends over the top of the dough and pull them in opposite direction. You now have a perfectly cut slice of dough that was not squished by a knife.)
Grease a 10 X 15 pan and place the rolls inside, touching each other. Cover with plastic wrap or towel and let rise in a warm location for 45 minutes or until doubled in size.
Once ready to bake, set temperature on oven to 350 and bake for 18-22 minutes or until lightly browned.
While baking, mix up the glaze. Once they are out of the oven, glaze immediately. You can pour or spoon the glaze over the rolls. Serve warm or cooled, your choice. Enjoy!
by holly
Today is just one of those days.
After 10 days off, the kids all went back to school – or were supposed to. Joshua overslept and missed his bus and since we currently have no way to transport his power chair, there was no way to get him there.
Katie’s bus was super late and after 25 minutes in 2-degree weather, she came home for me to give her a ride.
Kristiana’s ride forgot to stop by to get her, she got her fingers slammed in the car door and she was almost 1/2 hour late. [Read more…]
by holly
Another easy-peasy recipe. We love to have this one with pumpkin waffles, but it goes great on regular waffles, pancakes, French toast, or from a spoon. (Of course, I would not know that from first hand experience – I would never, ever, dip a spoon into a jar of syrup and lick it off. Ever.)
We make a quadruple batch and I think we might have to go to sextuple, but for normal families, here’s the recipe for one batch. [Read more…]
by holly

We triple this batch. It makes plenty! Serve with buttermilk syrup. [Read more…]
by holly

One of our favorite family breakfasts is Eggs Benedict. We top English muffins, ham and poached eggs with this yummy sauce.
(Side note: When we make this, we use about 40 eggs and a quadruple batch of this sauce – that’s 8 sticks of butter…..)
1 egg
1 Tbsp lemon juice
not-quite 1 Tbsp spicy brown mustard
2 sticks butter, melted and hot
Break one egg into blender; turn on high. Add lemon juice, then mustard. Slowly pour in hot melted butter and voila! Homemade Hollandaise sauce! Delicious on asparagus, with artichokes, on eggs Benedict….in fact, there is not anything we’ve tried it on that we do not like…..
If you have left-overs, just refrigerate them, then warm up by placing container in a hot water bath and stir occasionally. If you microwave it, it will separate.
This type of “cake” used to be called “coffee cake” but since we don’t drink coffee in this house, we started calling them “breakfast cake” years ago. This version is our very favorite. I have substituted the apples with strawberries, a strawberry/banana mix, peaches, and more. The texture is slightly different when you use more […]
This type of “cake” used to be called “coffee cake” but since we don’t drink coffee in this house, we started calling them “breakfast cake” years ago. This version is our very favorite. I have substituted the apples with strawberries, a strawberry/banana mix, peaches, and more. The texture is slightly different when you use more […]