November is not my favorite month. The desolate, deserted trees,The faded earth, the heavy sky… (from My November Guest by Robert Frost) Perhaps because I’m still clinging to fall and November is so close to winter. Actually, I’m still clinging to summer. I’m still wearing my flip flops, not yet resigned to boots. My toes…
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Pumpkin Bread French Toast
The other day, my husband and I were looking for a place to go out to eat. We are really indecisive about restaurants. I think we had already spent 30 minutes looking through online menus. I don’t remember where we went or what we got (must not have been that great), but I remember seeing…
Easiest, Fastest, and Yummiest Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns
Guess what! Guess What! Guess What! I finally got a grill! Our neighbors just moved and gave us their grill before they left. As happy as I am to have their old grill, I’m super sad they moved. My neighbors on both sides are gone! Breaks my heart! I had the best neighbors in the…
Coconut Banana Bread
What do you do when you have an excess of of bananas because they were 25 cents a pound and you bought way to many? Make banana ice cream, banana muffins, and of course some banana bread! I have delicious banana ice cream in my freezer tempting me and I froze some banana muffins made…
Easy Corn Bread
Last week I posted the recipe for Black Bean Soup and if you looked carefully enough, you could see a thick slice of corn bread in the background of the picture. Corn bread is just one of those recipe’s that you should always have up your sleeve to serve on a cold winter day with…
Sun Dried Tomato and Fresh Basil Bruschetta
Summer is coming!!!!!!!!!!!! My husband and I just planted out garden and we are super excited! We only have a tiny little amount of space on our back patio, so we filled it with herbs, a bunch of varieties of peppers, and a couple strawberry plants. Last year we had planted a bunch of tomatoes,…
Three Pea Spring Salad
I’m back!!!!!!!! I’m still recovering from mono, but I finally have the energy to be on the computer and make a post. Let me tell you, mono is long and hard. Don’t ever get it. You wont like it. I made this delicious, green, bright, springy salad before I got sick and I have been…
Irish Soda Bread (Spotted Dog)
Soda bread it a traditional Irish food, however my soda bread is modernized and Americanized. Actually most soda bread recipe’s you will see these days are not truly traditional. Click here to see a full explanation of a traditional soda bread. A traditional Irish soda bread has no sugar, eggs, or raisins and was probably…
Pesto Potato Pizza ( A St. Patricks Day Pizza)
Pin It In the last post, I taught you how to make fresh pesto. Today I’m going to show you something you can do with the pesto. I have been watching Worst Cooks in America on Food Network. In the show they take people who are awful cooks and train them in the kitchen. These…
Texas Roadhouse Roll’s
For some reason I panic when people ask me to bring rolls to events. I guess it is because I have had so many flops when it comes to making rolls. For thanksgiving, the rolls that I had made 3 times before with success, turned out hard and dense and flat. I don’t know why,…