Remember when I told you about our pecan trees and how Rocket, Top Girl, and SIL went into the backyard and picked up two or three bucketfuls of them? We took them to the nut place and had them cracked and blown – then we took them to mom and she shelled them for me….
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3 Outstanding Holiday Leftover Ideas
Casseroles and soups – the staples of holiday leftovers, right? In our family soup is great but casseroles often don’t make the cut for some reason so I am going to show you how we make holiday leftovers shine for weeks to come in our house. Discovered by accident this little trick has become our…
Merry Christmas !
Merry Christmas to you and yours! I’ll be back on Thursday with some great leftovers recipes – ones you may not have seen before! Here are some festive cards that I just thought were great! I got them from the Graphics Fairy so you can copy them for your own use (not commercial use). You…
Merry Christmas Peeps!
Good morning friends – if you are resting either before or after shopping or stuck inside because of the weather, I thought I would share my fun with Peeps this year. I hope you enjoy – I had many requests for these after posting my Easter Peeps dioramas – remember those? If you would like…
Candy Cane Cake Roll
There are lots of cake rolls around Pinterest these days and I am no exception. Ever since I found out I can make a roulade, or cake roll from a cake mix I have been trying all different kinds of tastes. That’s when I decided to make something light, pretty and pink just in time…
Orange Dark Chocolate Petit Fours
Tonight’s recipe is so easy! Using the other half of the cake mix I made the orange/dark chocolate cake roll box, I made 40 stellar petit fours. The best part, besides them tasting really great, it was not labor intensive and may be accomplished in steps on different days. Easy, tasty and pretty – what…
Orange Dark Chocolate Cake Roll
I was going to make my white fruit cakes this weekend but the weather had other plans. It started sleeting Thursday about noon and took my daughter and me 2 and ½ hours to drive the 25 miles home from work that evening. Work was called off the next day and Monday is not looking…
Hello Dolly Treats
Have you had enough pumpkin and cranberry to last a full year? Me too. The hoopla of the day is over and things are calm once again. I have been wanting something coconut lately but there is no one who will indulge in that with me except my mother. Yesterday as I was preparing most…
Black Friday Shopping
Hi everyone – I know you all probably have plans for Black Friday Shopping but in case you are like me and are not interested in fighting the crowds – I have a few suggestions for you! If you or someone you know has a laptop or Kindle or maybe they want a real book…
Strawberry Cheese Cake Crescent Bars
Each Wednesday in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper the is a long-running column called Melba’s Swap Shop. I guess Melba has been running the column for a very long time. I have seen recipe booklets titled Melba’s Swap Shop with different volume numbers. All the recipes are from home cooks throughout out state. Last week, I…