St. Patrick’s Day Theme

I’m sorry the theme for this week hasn’t been posted yet! (My goal for this is tomorrow.) However, I did want to share with you Sam’s plan for St. Patrick’s Day before the day had passed.
For a snack we’re going to make sugar cookies with green sprinkles on top. For crafts we will be doing [...]

Fruit Ice Recipe

MMMmmmm. Ice cream. My weakness. The other day Sam and I experimented and found THIS!!!

Yum!
Here’s what we did:
One ice cube and 5 frozen blueberries (or other frozen fruit) ground in our (extra) coffee grinder. I felt like the actors on the “Magic Bullet” commercial! After it was all shredded I stirred in some [...]

What to do with green tomatoes?

I have the answer!!! A fellow freecycler gave me this recipe this week. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet. Anyone want to bake it and let me know if it’s tasty?

4 cups chopped green tomatoes
1 Tbs salt

1/2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp [...]

Recipe Wednesdays: If you don’t have, then use…

AHA!!! I have been looking for this since I was 16! Taken from Nesting: It’s a Chick Thing, written by Ame Mahler Beanland and Emily Miles Terry.  In this section we are given (insert Heavenly choir here) a list of useful substitutions for baking and cooking. The most useful and (no duh) ones that I [...]

Maple Syrup Recipe

                                                                           
Yes, folks, that’s right. There is an actual recipe for syrup. I know, I couldn’t beleieve it either. Sometimes I just don’t stop to look beyond the grocery aisle in considering HOW my food got to me. Nevertheless, here I am. I just got the More-with-Less cookbook written by Doris Janzen Longacre. It was [...]

Chicken Stew Recipe

Sorry, folks. I got sick, too, and our sweet neighbor brought over chicken noodle soup so we were set. Today, however, chicken stew is in the crockpot simmering. It smells fantastic. Please keep in mind that this is just a crappy homemade soup recipe that I made up one day when we had close to [...]

Homemade Potato Chip Recipe

My husband is (still!) sick this week, so I’m geeting creative trying to feed him – he doesn’t seem to want much, unlike me when I’m sick – I eat EVERYTHING! But I came across an old favorite that I’ve forgotten about – homemade potato chips. This way he gets the salt his body needs [...]