How do you like your sweet potatoes? If you are like me, you like them smothered in butter, brown sugar, and marshmallows. Now, sweet potatoes are full of nutrients, but you can hardly call them healthy smothered in sugar and butter. Save the sugar and butter for dessert. Here are three ways to prepare roasted…
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Applesauce Muffins
When I think of muffins, I think of my two younger brothers. I first think of Joe who loves any kind of breakfast food. He makes himself German pancakes for lunch, has a “cereal snack” three times a day, and he can eat more muffins than anyone I know. He is 15, 6’3” or 4”, …
Brown Sugar and Spice Sugar Cookies and Royal Icing Tutorial
So, you may have seen my previous attempts at sugar cookies. Messy, ugly, unappetizing. You can see some of them here or here. I have tried a couple different recipes and I am happy to say that I have finally found one that I like! The ones I am showing you today are spiced with…
Super Easy Pumpkin Cookies
I am student teaching right now and I have the best cooperating teachers! In speech class we are doing sales speeches right now and one girl presented her Kitchen Aid and brought the class pumpkin cookies that she had made in it. My cooperating teacher saved the recipe for me and I went home and…
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
I am not ready to give up Pumpkin season quite yet. Expect pumpkin recipes through November and maybe even into December! I love pumpkin! My mom even used to call me Pumpkin when I was little! These beauties filled with a yummy cream cheese filling and if you like pumpkin, you wont be disappointed. I…
Green Tomatillo Salsa (Going Green!!)
Is it just me, or is everybody really hung up on “going green?” I decided to do my part on the “green” movement, and so I extrapolated the concept onto salsa. Ok ok. It’s not a new idea, but neither is recycling or conserving energy:) So, here it is… Ingredients: 3/4 lbs. tomatillo, peeled, washed…
October’s Daring Bakers: GO NUTS FOR DOUGHNUTS!!!
This month I joined a cook-a-long group called The Daring Kitchen. It has been so much fun!!! I am signed up as both a “Daring Baker” and a “Daring Cook.” Once a month everyone who is a member gets a new challenge to cook something that is unique, interesting, or challenging. Only the members can…
Pumpkin Scones
I LOVE PUMPKIN!!! I absolutely love cooking with pumpkin. I love it in this, this, and this. I have many more pumpkin recipes coming your way this fall. This recipe is supposedly a replica of Starbuck’s pumpkin scone. I would buy one of these! It is the perfect breakfast for a fall Saturday morning. I…
Pumpkin Whoopie Pies
I have seen whoopie pies all over the foodie blogosphere for sometime now. I’ve seen them in chocolate, red velvet, and S’mores flavors, but it was the pumpkin flavor that sold me. What is a whoopie pie, you might ask? Wikipedia says that it is a “baked good made of two round mound-shaped pieces of…
Caramel Apple Cake
I am re-posting this recipe because I now have a picture of my own and I want to recognize it again. It is a great fall food and it is VERY EASY. It is one of my husband’s favorite desserts (and mine too!) The caramel forms as it cooks. Serve with vanilla ice cream or…