Simple Food. Good Ideas. Great Fun.
My daughter usually wants me to make her a strawberry cake for her birthday. The first year she asked for one, I made the strawberry cake with a strawberry filling completely from scratch. Although it was good, the color was kind of muted and not extremely appealing. The second year she asked for one, I […]
This frosting is a simple classic. it is easy to spread for a “crumb coating,” a filling between layers, and to frost an entire cake. Recipe: Basic Buttercream Frosting Ingredients 1/2 c. soft (room temp) unsalted butter 3 1/2 c. sifted confectioners’ sugar 1/8 tsp. salt 3 – 4 Tbsp. milk, half and half or […]
Inspired to make a different type of pie crust for an amaretto cream pie, I decided to try and make a crumb crust using almond spice cookies. The result was delicious. I have found that most crisp cookies work well in this basic, simple recipe. I make either one deep dish pie or two standard […]
A few years ago, my husband insisted we go to the Mt. Vernon Restaurant in Chattanooga, Tennessee for my birthday. As it had always been our tradition for the birthday person to pick the restaurant, I was not happy about going…to say the least. To try and calm me, he explained he had been there […]
You can plant a watermelon up above my grave, And let the juice (slurp) ooze through, You can plant a watermelon up above my grave, That’s all I ask of you. These lyrics are part of my favorite song…when I was six. So, why am I quoting a song I learned in first grade? Well, […]
My mom started making these chocolate cherry bars in 1970’s. I recently discovered that was probably because it seems to be a version of a 1974 Pillsbury Bake-off recipe. (Side Note: My cake did not turn out this time as pretty as I would have liked, but it tasted great.) This was a cake that […]
If you like peanut butter fudge, I think you will like this cake. The icing reminds me of peanut butter fudge. However, the peanut butter flavor is more subtle than in the peanut butter fudge I make. Although there is some stove top cooking involved, this is a very quick baking cake that can be […]
Perhaps this pie should come with a warning: Beware that eating this pie may result in your not wanting any other lemon meringue pie again. Alright, I may be biased because it is one of the pies my mom made, but there have been other people who ate this pie and later said they other […]
Rhubarb seems to often get paired with strawberries. I know that it is in “season” with strawberries, but I really enjoy rhubarb in a more solo form either as a compote or or in my mom’s rhubarb “custard” pie. I must admit that the use of custard in the name of her pie recipe is […]
Making these easy Easter treats is a great way to get all members of a family involved in a project. I believe the first time I made these was as a kid for our Junior Girl Scout troop to take to a party (I think it was at a nursing home….they are great for kids, […]
