Simple Italian Meat Sauce
Simple Italian Meat Sauce cooks up quickly for a pasta dinner or to save as the base for a nice pan of lasagna. This sauce uses butter and a little milk, so it’s sort of like a bolognese, but only takes 45-60 minutes.
Big & Fluffy Homemade Pancakes
I’ve made these pancakes for over 25 years. I tried several pre-packaged mixes back in the dark ages, and didn’t think much of any of them. These homemade pancakes are so simple to put together for a quick weekday or weekend breakfast. Or how about breakfast for dinner? Six simple ingredients that are within easy reach in most everyone’s pantry. They’re light and fluffy, perfect served along side crispy strips of bacon or country sausage links and a fried egg. That’s the way Richard and I like them.
Cheesy Leek Potato Soup
WOW! This is an awesome potato soup, if I do say so myself. Perfect for a cool and windy Halloween night, or any night for that matter. I just happened to make this on Halloween. Cheesy Leek Potato Soup is a combination of several recipe elements. I wanted a creamy, cheesy soup, not too watery and not too thick. This soup knocked it out of the park. Happy, Happy, Happy!!!
Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
My husband, Richard, loves peanut butter. While he often slathers it on bread, rolls, crackers, and celery, I like to eat it by the spoonful right out of the jar. I can’t help myself. Peanut butter by itself is such a simple pleasure – sweet, salty, creamy. The perfect between meal pick-me-up.
I found a great peanut butter sheet cake recipe that I’ve made several times, and we love it! But Richard offered a not so subtle hint on my grocery list: COOKIES. So I figured a cake was out.
Chili Cheese Dogs
There really are no words to adequately express the love of a good hot dog.
In my early days, the best hot dogs were those at Coney Island in Gary, Indiana, around 13th and Broadway, if I remember correctly, maybe a little south. My dad would take me and my brother there to chow down on chili cheese dogs accompanied by a bowl of chili, oyster crackers, and a Coke. A simple recipe, the chili on the dog was the same chili in the bowl. Kind of soupy, kind of thick, small chunks of ground beef, and heavy on cumin, those dogs were a tasty treat that left smiles on everyone’s faces.
Big Texas Chocolate Birthday Sheet Cake
I visited my family earlier this month to celebrate my grandson’s fifth birthday. Quinten is just the sweetest boy, except maybe for his little brother! I couldn’t miss out on his landmark birthday!!
Quinten loves birthday cake, and I’d planned to make him a BIG chocolate cake using my Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake recipe.
Honey Half Whole Wheat Rolls
It’s that time of year and everyone is making a variety of warm and hearty soups perfect for the change of seasons. I love the fall. Cooler weather is a welcome change from summer’s seemingly relentless heat! Whether you’re retrieving the crock pot or bringing out your trusty soup pot, there’s nothing that goes better with a warm bowl of soup than a beautiful and flavorful bread. This recipe I turned into rolls.
Not Just Another Chocolate Chip Cookie
I love cookies. They’re the perfect nibble. I know all of us have our favorite go to chocolate chip cookie recipe. For the longest time, I’ve made traditional Toll House cookies, you know, the famous recipe on the back of the bag of chocolate chips. For some reason, this particular recipe caught my eye, and has become my favorite.
Vera Bradley Desktop Downloads
Vera Bradley Background Downloads
Are you a Vera Bradley fan? Hard to choose what pattern is your favorite? Now you can download VB patterns for desktops, iPads, and mobile phones, and change them at your pleasure!
I was so excited to find this site. And the folks at Vera Bradley come up with a new collection of backgrounds for each season of the year. There’s even an archive page, so you can browse patterns back to 2009. What a find!
Vera Bradley Background Downloads
Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake
It was cold and rainy yesterday here in Billings. Perfect time to whip up a cake. If I still had school-age children hanging around, this would be a perfect after school treat with a tall, cold glass of milk. Oh my – this cake is fabulous!
Challah French Toast
My husband loves french toast. He’s been asking for it for a few weeks now. His idea of a proper french toast is regular sandwich bread, dipped in egg and fried in butter. I’m right along with him until we discuss bread. I much prefer challah, or some eggy, slightly sweet, buttery bread. And it’s difficult to find good challah in these part of the woods. So I decided to make my own. I may have overcooked the french toast a wee, but that’s the way Richard likes it, too. Some things are worth compromise. (more…)
Auggie Doggie
Meet Auggie Doggie! She’s a sweet girl we rescued from the Crow Indian Reservation three years ago. At the time I was working for a small museum in Garryowen, Montana, and every summer the museum hires interns to help work the summer tourist season, and they live on the museum grounds. Two of our recruits that year were real animal lovers.
Auggie Doggie
There is no shortage of animals in Big Horn County – horses, cattle, dogs, cats, porcupines, snakes, skunks, coyotes, turtles, rabbits, deer. Everyone at the museum has personal animal stories. Once a hawk flew into a small shop on the property – pretty exciting. Another of our interns killed a bull snake that was going after a litter of young kittens. The biggest snapping turtle I’ve ever seen was strolling around the parking lot before it was corralled into a box and safely returned to the Little Big Horn River.
