Your Tray or Mine? Cookie Tray Recipe of the Day: Chocolate Chip Butterballs
These cookies could be made with nuts instead of chocolate chips if you prefer! ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 5, 2011 Today’s recipe is another one of my favorite cookie recipes, one we’ve made for years...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine? Cookie Tray Recipe of the Day: Chocolate Thumbprints
ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 1, 2011 I first posted this recipe on my FB page on December 5, 2008!! It’s a cookie recipe my mom and I make every year, and if I had to pick a top favorite, this would be...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine: Recipe of the Day: Chocolate Buttersweets
These are my other top favorite cookie from our trays! ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 19, 2011 When I first began the Your Tray or Mine series of recipes earlier this month, I began with the Chocolate...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine Recipe of the Day: Brown Eyed Susans, a Family Favorite
ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 7, 2011 When I posted my first recipe last week for Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies, I mentioned that it was one of my top two favorite cookies on our trays each year (I’ll let...
View ArticleHappy St. Patty’s Day: Irish Soda Bread
ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 16, 2012: Everyone loves a good Irish Soda Bread with their St. Patrick’s Day meal! This one was passed along to me by my father-in-law last winter and it was wonderful. I can’t...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Don and Alexandra!
So what’s the best birthday gift *you* ever gave someone? ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 23, 2012 Today is a very special day. Today is Alexandra’s birthday. Today is also Don’s birthday. That makes me the...
View ArticleEaster Sweet Bread
This recipe makes three “small” loaves of sweet bread for Easter. It’s wonderful when you grill it! Originally posted April 4, 2012 This recipe is one that takes a while from start to finish- nine...
View ArticleFun Friday: Baked Oatmeal: It’s not just for breakfast
I’d eat this for breakfast, lunch or dinner! ORIGINALLY POSTED MAY 10, 2013: The other day I came across a great new recipe for baked oatmeal. It was on Skinnytaste.com, a blog I follow on Facebook. I...
View ArticleHappy Birthday To Me and To You: Mom’s Boston Cream Pie two ways
Boston Cream Pie is my all-time favorite kind of birthday cake. ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 10, 2012 August 11 is my birthday! If I could choose any kind of birthday cake in the whole world, I’d choose...
View ArticleFun Friday: Cook once, eat twice. After school snacks and breakfast
These were healthy and a huge hit. Definitely a keeper. ORIGINALLY POSTED SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 Cook once, eat twice. I love that old adage. You cook once, and live on the leftovers. Or, you make double,...
View ArticlePumpkin Palooza Recipe of the Day: Pumpkin Cranberry Bread
Done…. Originally posted on November 14, 2011 The recipe I’m sharing today is one of my favorite Thanksgiving recipes. Each year this is what we have for breakfast on Thanksgiving morning, and we grill...
View ArticlePumpkin Palooza Recipe of the Day: MaryLou’s Sweet Potato Casserole
This is MaryLou. She makes a kickin’ Sweet Potato Casserole! ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 22, 2011: Who is MaryLou, you ask? She’s my mother-in-law and she makes the best sweet potato casserole EVER!!...
View ArticlePumpkin Palooza Recipe of the Day: Cranberry Pie
My Thanksgiving Day Cranberry Pie Each year for Thanksgiving we go to my aunt and uncle’s for a huge family Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because of all the food with...
View ArticlePumpkin Palooza Recipe of the Day: Pumpkin Swirl Brownies
This new recipe got all thumbs up this weekend! ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 13, 2011 This weekend I tried a new recipe that came across my virtual “desk” last week. The recipe was from Babble’s Family...
View ArticlePumpkin Palooza…My grand finale: Here’s to friends and pumpkin pie cupcakes
I’m thankful for being able to stay connected to friends from “way back when” who are both near and far. ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 16, 2012 I went to a high school outside of my hometown, with kids...
View ArticleGot leftovers? Make a Turkey Pot Pie!
ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2011: One of the best things about having leftovers from Thanksgiving is being able to enjoy the feast for days to come. Although we do not have Thanksgiving at home, the...
View ArticleWhat’s for Christmas dinner: Make ahead twice baked potatoes
Today’s post is all about the potatoes. ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 28, 2011 Yesterday I wrote the first part of my post about our Christmas dinner, which is a great meal for any occasion: roasted pork...
View ArticleA Your Tray or Mine Recipe and an Online Cookie Swap: Chocolate Buttersweets
These are my other top favorite cookie from our trays! This week I was invited to participate in such a fun activity: a digital cookie exchange! Now, you know how much I love cookies, and what a fun...
View ArticleChristmas Dessert: Mocha Roll and Christmas Cookies
All together now: all of the cookies made by my mom, me and both grandmas, all on one tray. ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 29, 2011 This week I’ve been posting in retrospect about our Christmas Dinner. To...
View ArticleHappy St. Patty’s Day: Irish Soda Bread
ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 16, 2012: Everyone loves a good Irish Soda Bread with their St. Patrick’s Day meal! This one was passed along to me by my father-in-law last winter and it was wonderful. I can’t...
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