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 [...]

Snickerdoodles

I’ve been out of the blogosphere for awhile now. Too long. And I apologize. A blog without updates is awfully boring. But I’m back!
Back in March, Deborah of A Taste & Tell had a little contest for her cookbook of the month event. She chose my recommendation, The Pastry Queen by Rebecca Rather for her [...]

Cheesecake Pops

Its that time again… daring bakers time that is! This time it was cute little cheesecake bites! When I first saw what this month’s challenge , I was thrilled because I’ve never made anything like this and hubby LOVES cheesecake. The downside of this month’s challenge… I don’t particularly care for cheesecake much. Although, maybe [...]

Perfect Party Cake

Its daring bakers time again! Quite honestly, I’m not sure how I manged to complete this month’s edition of Daring Bakers. All month I’d been planning to make this cake Easter weekend (also my mom’s birthday). It was going to be the perfect way to take care of this challenge. Unfortunately hubby’s grandfather got very [...]

Grandmother’s Chocolate Pie

My Grandmother has always been in charge of the chocolate pie in our family because she makes really great chocolate pie. Other family members are more than welcome to have their hand at the other pies for the holidays… but grandmother always makes the chocolate pie (well the pecan too). They’re delicious. For a [...]