4th of July Chocolate Cookie Cutouts
Fun, colorful, star shaped 4th of July Chocolate Cutout Cookies. Happy 4th of July! For Mother’s Day I received Martha Stewart’s Cookies cookbook. I told the kids I thought we should bake one cookie a week....
Daring Bakers Danish Braid
I love pastry! So I was excited to learn that this month's Daring Bakers challenge was Danish Braid. I have never made puff pastry from scratch and as I imagined, it was very time...
Light Tropical Carrot Cake
Carrot cake sounds like a healthy dessert, but most carrot cakes are loaded with fat and have over 600 calories a slice. So when Good Housekeeping published a healthy makeover carrot cake recipe with...
Two Weeks in Italy
I haven't been blogging lately, because I haven't been cooking lately. We celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary with a fabulous two week trip to Italy. We had all kinds of wonderful Italian food. My...
Daring Baker Creamsicle Opéra Cake
This month’s Daring Baker challenge was opera cake. I had never heard of nor tasted opera cake before this challenge, so I was a little bit intimidated when I first saw the recipe. Although...
Cooking Light’s Better Banana Bread
This is a great banana bread recipe. It is the one recipe that my husband bakes! He makes banana muffins about once a week, and not just because he can't stand to throw away...
You Make My Day Award
Priscilla from A Peek in Priscilla’s Kitchen has given me the “You Make My Day Award”. This is my first blogging award and Priscilla “made my day”. The award rules are: give the award to...
Lamb’s Famous Rice Pudding
April's Master Baker's challenge ingredient is vanilla. Lamb's creamy smooth vanilla rice pudding immediately came to mind when I was trying to decide what to make for this challenge. When I was just 18,...
Chicken Satay Noodle Salad
This is a great quick dinner recipe from Rachel Ray that the whole family enjoyed. The boys aren't that fond of cold salads, so I put the carrots in with the pasta for the...
Citrus Cream Cheese Pull Apart Rolls
This easy-to-make recipe takes frozen roll dough to a whole new level. Pre-made roll dough baked with a sweet, creamy orange cream cheese filling and tart dried cranberries, then topped with a sweet, crunchy citrus...
Malted-Milk Chocolate Cake
My entry for this month's Master Baker challenge is a recipe I cut out of Cooking Light magazine in 1999. My kids are not crazy about malted-milk balls, so I never made the cake....
Lighter Chicken Parmesan
A lighter Chicken Parmesan recipe. Instead of frying the chicken cutlets in lots of oil, they're baked so they're crispy and cheesy, but also healthy and delicious. Marie of "Proud Italian Cook" and Maryann of...
