Recipes

Family Fun: Making Graham Cracker Houses

by Christina Brown December 16, 2011

One of our favorite family traditions during the holidays is to make graham cracker houses. It’s far simpler to make little houses out of graham crackers than it is to bake gingerbread or to shell out for those expensive gingerbread kits.  And the kids love being able to be messy and creative. Making graham cracker [...]

Recipe: Pumpkin Praline Cheesecake

by Michelle November 22, 2011

I realize some might consider this statement Thanksgiving blasphemy, but I really don’t like pumpkin pie.  I think it is the consistency or the blah-ness of it.  I know, I am weird. Anyway, the perfect cover story is to just bring this delicious cheesecake to any Thanksgiving dinner, so I don’t have to call attention [...]

Harvest How-To: How to Bake a Pumpkin

by Jessica October 5, 2011

Sure, you can carve your pumpkin this October and have a glowing creation on your porch, but doesn’t freshly baked pumpkin bread, bars, pie, muffins & cookies from a pumpkin you picked and baked sound fantastic? If you were like me, you grew some pumpkins in your garden. This year our garden yielded 6 pumpkins, [...]

How to Make Candy Buttons

by Jessica September 6, 2011

Remember the candy buttons from your childhood? That sweet sugary goodness you pried off of strips of paper with your teeth trying to get as much sugar as your could with the least amount of paper? Eating candy buttons was fun. It IS fun! But finding places that sell these retro sweet treats is not [...]

Recipe: Zucchini Brownies

by Christina Brown August 19, 2011

It was about this time last year that I was swimming in zucchini from my garden and not sure what to do with it all. I ended up shredding and freezing quite a bit of it, and I’ve been using it throughout the year for zucchini bread and muffins and to add it to soups [...]

Super Simple Recipe: Cheddar Biscuits

by Christina Brown May 4, 2011

My carb-loving family absolutely adores this recipe for cheddar biscuits.  I love this recipe because not only are these biscuits a tasty accompaniment to pasta dishes, they’re super easy to make. Ingredients: 3 C. Bisquick 1 C. Milk 3/4 C. Shredded Cheddar Cheese 1/4 C. Butter or Margerine, Melted 1/4 tsp. garlic powder Dill weed [...]

Recipe: Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

by Christina Brown January 22, 2011

I have two little boys who protest all attempts to get them to eat fruits and vegetables. So I’ve had to get sneaky.  Turns out they’ll eat fruits and vegetables when they’ve been turned into cookies! I recently made Amy’s Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies and these were a huge hit with the entire family. They’re [...]

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