Mom’s Tofu & Beef

I love this dish. I grew up with my mom fixing this and its delicious. I’d never attempted making it for myself cause I always envisioned hubby hating it. I mean why would he like Tofu? Its good for you! lol. I figured this was a good way to start [...]

Potato Salad

I’m not big on the traditional mayo smothered Potato Salad. I just don’t like mayo that much! And our friends who we’ve spent the last four July 4th Holidays with, recently became vegan so Mayo drenched Potato Salad wasn’t an option anyway. With a little hunting I found a lot of recipes that were a [...]

Danish Braid

Its daring bakers time again!
This time it was another new challenge… Danish Braid. The guidelines this time around required that we use the basic dough recipe and do the apple filling and/or a filling of our choice, but the filling had to be made from scratch. I made the apple filling for one large danish braids [...]

Peach Mango Sorbet

Its summer time. I’ve been craving ice cream daily. I tried making a batch of frozen yogurt but the first attempt was not sweet enough and was too yogurty. I’ll give it a few more tries and hopefully be back with a winning Fro Yo recipe. For now though, I figured I’d stick with sorbet.

Peach [...]

Oatmeal, chocolate chip pecan cookies

My 21 (soon to be 22) year old sister in law is spending her summer working on a ranch in Colorado. Since she’s far from home and off by herself, I thought I’d send her a little bit of home… some cookies! Especially since her birthday is just around the corner I knew I [...]

Chicken Crescent Pockets

I haven’t made these in probably a year and I’d forgotten just how good they are and what an easy meal they make. I usually avoid processed foods like canned biscuits but these are just so good! One of my favorite things about this recipe is how adaptable it is. I’ve included the basic recipe [...]