My professional taste testers (a.k.a. my girlfriends) were really into this cake. You just never know what people will love. My friends taste a lot of my food. A lot. My poor friend Andrea lives down the street and she…
Dinner Tonight: Crescent Roll Caserole for 2 (or 4…or 6…or 8…)
This recipe right here is what I’m talking about when I call myself the Mix and Match Mama. It’s a method…that if memorized…can make dozens of different meals on short notice. It’s not necessarily about the ingredients I use but…
Color Me Happy
Where has this week gone? I had big plans of taking lots of pictures of our week but so far, this is all I have…after lunch on Monday, the kids and I colored some Halloween pumpkins. I will always have…
Bree’s Fruit Crisp
Bree is my mom’s bestie. They’ve been friends for over 30 years. The crazy thing is…the older I get, the more Bree becomes one of my friends and not just “my mom’s friend”. I love her dearly. When I started…
Dinner Tonight: Slightly Sweet Sloppy Joes
When we were first married, I packed up my Saturn coup with as much stuff as I could and moved across the country with the new hubby. In my loot, I only packed two cookbooks. Needless to say, I pretty…
Chocolate Neiman Marcus Bars
Chocolate Neiman Marcus Bars take the original recipe to a whole new level. My hubby was madly in love with the first version but cannot get enough of the new chocolaty one. My grandpa doesn’t even like chocolate and I…
Fall Fun
Wow! What a busy two days we’ve had! We are enjoying fall this weekend… On Friday, we went and played with Carter and Mrs. Sheaffer. Smith’s in a little house saying “hi!”. Kensington sulking after getting in trouble. What…
Bundt Cake #7: S’mores
Ahhh…it’s October. I’m so happy. I love the fall and all things fall related. When I think of October, I think of s’mores. I knew I wanted to do a bundt cake that incorporated the main ingredients of a s’more…so…
Sweet Potato Whoopie Pies courtesy of my sweetie!
This recipe is especially sweet. My cousin Brooke had a “potato party” at her new apartment. Everyone was suppose to bring their favorite potato recipe and she would provide meat and salad. Well…of course, I started thinking about desserts that…
Do you froth at home?
Oh good heavens, look what I got!!! Two weeks ago, we went into Williams-Sonoma (my favorite store) and the lady must have seen the “I’m obsessed with coffee” sign on my forehead because she first asked me if I wanted…
Dinner Tonight: Slow Cooker Spaghetti Sauce
For years, we’ve been teasing my mother-in-law about the amount of frozen spaghetti sauce she has in her garage freezer. She could probably feed an army with her sauce. She makes it in large batches and then freezes it for…
Candy Corn Cupcakes
OK…how cute are these?! I mean, really…how cute are these?!?! I didn’t come up with the concept, I just started looking around for cupcake recipes that incorporated candy corn and found several recipes that did this. I just couldn’t resist. …
