A Peachy Kitchen

Back from my hiatus!!!

2011-03-18T14:20:00.000-07:00

Well, let's just say I took a hiatus for a while...don't we all need that every now and then!! Well, I did and what have I been doing you might ask, well, of course spending time with my 2 babies, planning a mission trip, training for fitness competition late this year possibly, the list goes on...so, I think I was due for a break!! Not to say I took a break from cooking, I still do that for my hubby and kiddos and even though I am in training and eat very clean foods, on Sundays I do eat a meal of whatever I want and dessert!! So, I wanted to share with all of you now that I am back and will be baking something every week to share with all of you, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I do on Sundays....

This recipe is for Butterfinger Cake, let's face it when I train all week and Sunday rolls around, I pretty much bake something I am craving, but this particular Sunday, I being the sweet wife I am, let my husband choose his dessert..hehe Well, he chose Butterfinger Cake, I know my Mom use to make it for me as a little girl, but I really had forgotten how good it is after all these years..I made it and thought well, I will just have a bite, I had 2 big pieces, it is that good...very simple but ohhhhh soooo good!!!! and not only did my hubby love it, but my girls LOVED it too...I hope you all enjoy it too!!

Butterfinger Cake

1 box devil's food cake mix
1 bottle carmel topping (found in icecream section of your grocery store)
1 can Condensed milk
1 large tube Cool Whip
1 Butterfinger bar

Prepare cake according to package directions. Immediately after removing cake from oven, poke several holes all over top with fork. Mix sweetened condensed milk and caramel topping together, now pour over hot cake, and spreak it over entire cake. Chill well....After cake has chilled, and you MUST wait until it's chilled, then spread Cool Whip over top and sprinkle crushed Butterfinger bar on top of cool whip...

I am telling you it's DELISH!!

Now, go and try this cake!!!!!

I am soooo behind, but finally caught up!!

2011-02-09T08:10:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone, I have been so busy lately and haven't had time to post any recipes, but promise this weekend recipes will be coming again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cupcakes how I love you!!

2010-10-14T15:38:00.000-07:00

I have to say I have a new love lately, cupcakes...I LOVE them...mostly red velvet..it's funny the things you never cared that much for and then wake up one day, and WOW, it's your new favorite thing...Actually, I only wish I could eat them everyday, but with training I only get a cheat on Sunday, so I save it for that day..I have also found not just any old cupcake will do, I am only wanting a gourmet cupcake since my cheat is only on Sunday, you have to make it worth it, right...well, my friend Shirley, who is also trains, and is a pro figure competitor just started a business in Atlanta, and it's called Sweet Cheats..and let me just tell you these are the BEST cupcakes in the world...seeing I have to support my friends and their new business, I ordered up some for my family and 2 for me..they got rave reviews..I cannot even tell you how good it was..I had red velvet which had white chocolate under the buttercream/cream cheese topping, yes, both, and Pumpkin Harvest with a gingersnap in the middle and cream cheese icing...Oh, how I wish it was Sunday again...

My two cupcakes...OH MY GOODNESS...they make my mouth water all over again..lol

Now for my family...the left is Chocolate Cookie Dough, and the right is Strawberry Shortcake with a vanilla cookie in the middle...

and a closer view....if anyone lives in Atlanta let me know and I will send you her contact info..really the best EVER!!

Fall days and Fall recipes...

2010-10-04T11:37:00.000-07:00

I am so glad I have people interested in my recipes...I really have to confess, I haven't had much time for this because I have a family blog, a family book, recipe blog, etc, etc...so I decided to simplify my blogs, and deleted my family blog, I do a family book that is basically the same thing, and the only reason I do it is for my family, so by doing that, I have more time to work on my recipe blog, which is really my hobby to bake and cook...and now even though I still am in training, I get a cheat meal and dessert every Sunday, which is great, because I can try my own recipes..lol

I had to throw in a pic of me and my sweet girl from this weekend, out at a park enjoying the day..It's always nice to know who the person behind the blog is too!!!

oops, eyes closed..

now, that is better!! My little baker!!

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars

2010-10-04T11:14:00.000-07:00

What says it's Fall better than apples!!! Then add some caramel and cheesecake to it and you have a yummy Fall dessert in no time at all..This recipe is from Christie Bayless of San Bernardino who serves these to her catering clients and this recipe is one of their favorites!!!

Caramel Apple Cheesecake Bars

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 sticks butter, softened
2 (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar, divided
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored and finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Streusal topping (see below)

1/2 cup Caramel Topping

Preheat oven to 350 degrees..In a medium ball, combine flour and brown sugar. Cut in butter with pastry blender until mixture is crumbly. Press evenly in 13x9 inch pan lined with foil. Bake 15 minutes, or until light brown.

In a large bowl, beat cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth. Beat in 1/2 cup sugar, eggs, and vanilla until smooth. Pour over warm crust. (your crust doesn't need to be cool because it's going right back in the oven) don't you love when that happens, you don't even have to wait on it to cool off!!!

In a small bowl, stir together chopped apples, 2 tablespoons sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Spoon evenly over cream cheese mixture.Sprinkle evenly with Streusal Topping. Bake for 30 minutes or until filling is set. Now, drizzle with some warm caramel topping..I just heated mine a couple seconds in microwave and then poured over the top..now, hurry, go make this, you won't be sorry!!!!

Streusel Topping:
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup quick cooking oates
1 stick butter, softened

In a small bowl combine all ingredients..

I took a few bites, just so you could see the middle of that cheesecake goodness...hehe

Cowgirl Cookies

2010-10-04T10:46:00.000-07:00

I found a great cookie recipe for Fall, as a matter of fact, you can use this recipe for any holiday, and just change the Reese's pieces, to colored M&M's to match the holiday season..but for mine because I LOVE Reese's pieces, and the colors matched with Fall that is what I used and I LOVED THESE COOKIES!!!!

Cowgirl Cookies (from Bakerella)

3/4 cup butter, melted
1 egg
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/3 cups All-purpose flour
1 cup old-fashioned oats
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup Reese's pieces or M&M's
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans

Heat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, beat butter, egg, brown sugar, granulated sugar and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed. Stir in flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Stir in candies, chocolate chips and pecans.

Roll dough into 1 1/2 inch balls. On ungreased cookie sheet or parchment paper, place balls one inch apart.
Bake 8-10 minutes or until edges are set, cool 2 minutes..remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack..store tightly covered..

Enjoy, really one of the best cookie recipes I have ever tried!!!

These my friends are delicious!!!!!! You have to try and don't they just look like Fall!!!!

Gooey Butter Cakes..

2010-07-07T14:43:00.000-07:00

How, I hope you fellow recipe bloggers haven't given up on me..I really haven't been cooking too much, with the heat of the Georgia sun, I have tried to stay out of the kitchen, and we have been super busy this summer, but it has been calling my name....Plus, I can only go so long without being back in my kitchen baking up some good treats for my family...although, I am teaching the girls healthy choices, we still splurge every now and have some good, delicious, very fattening treats..that is what a treat is suppose to be anyway, right..in moderation.. So, what better recipe to try when you want to eat lots of butter, than Paula Deen, right..lol, this is her butter cakes, but I add chocolate chips to mine, which makes it even better...For any of you who visit or want to visit her restaurant, they are always on the dessert menu if you order her buffet, it's usually some type of butter cake, but to me you can't beat fresh out of the oven butter cakes..:)

Well, here is a delicious treat I made for 4th of July, one of the desserts, the other was homemade banana pudding, which I will post later, made with cream cheese..yummy..but this was for the kids and they loved them, they are delicious and you must try them!!!

Gooey Butter Cakes with Chocolate Chips

18 1/4 ounce package of yellow cake mix
1 egg
1 stick butter, melted.. (told you it was lots of butter)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine ingredients and mix well. Pate into lightly greased 13x9 pan. Prepare filling.

Filliing:
8 ounce cream cheese, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 stick butter, melted (yep, that makes the 2nd stick of butter in this recipe)
16 ounce box powdered sugar
chocolate chips (I added about 1 cup) just add however much you like, you could even do half with and half without..

Beat cream cheese until smooth. Add eggs and vanilla. Add butter, beat. Add powdered sugar and mix well. Spread over cake mixture, now add your chocolate chips if you want them, don't mix just add to top. Now bake for 40-50 minutes.

Okay, I am way overdue!!

2010-03-22T19:12:00.000-07:00

Yes, I am way overdue for a recipe, as many of you Mommies out there, we get busy and before you know it a month has come and gone. I am trying to do better and post more recipes at least once or twice a week. With me training and not being able to eat them, I have to test on my husband, who now has decided he has to whip into shape for spring and summer too, I guess I might be rubbing off on him..hehe...but still have my girls to bake for and he has told me I can bake whatever I want for him on the weekends, so hey, I still have weekends to bake for him and my blog, so it all works out...I am sure you will not want to make this if your trying to whip into shape for summer, but for all you others out there, this one is for you, and hey you can save it for a cheat meal like I do every now and then, we can't completely take good southern food out of diet, now can we....

Now, to my sweet friend Lia in England, go out and make those sweet boys of yours this pie this weekend, they will never leave home...lol

Chocolate Pecan Pie

1 deep dish pie crust

3 eggs

2/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/3 cup butter, melted

1/2 cup chocolate chips..I used a little bit more because my man loves chocolate..

1 cup corn syrup

1 cup pecan halves

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. I mixed the eggs, sugar, salt, melted butter and corn syrup with my whisk for a minute or so. Stir in pecans into the mixture. Put chocolate chips on bottom of pie shell and slowly pour pecan mixture over the chocolate chips. Bake for 45 minutes until set. Cool before cutting into it...I had to wrap my pie crust after 30 minutes to protect it from burning, I wish I had that cool gadget you just place over your pie shell, but I don't so I just wrapped foil around my crust....

top with ice cream if you like......Delish....

I cannot tell you how much my family enjoyed this pie, even my girls who normally don't like pecan pie at all, they finished their whole piece...and well, my husband LOVED it...try it it's so easy and great for Easter too..

My pic of ingredients...

Place as many chocolate chips as you want, I used a little more than 1/2 cup..
Mixing ingredients to pour over chocolate chips..

You know this is going to be good..

It's just asking to be topped with vanilla ice cream....

Do Nothing Cake...

2010-02-05T14:10:00.000-08:00

I worked with another nurse many years ago, and she was a great baker, anyway, before she retired she gave me this recipe she had found in an old newspaper, called "Do Nothing Cake", I would call it pineapple pecan coconut goodness...It is delicious and all from scratch, but couldn't get any easier...If you don't like pineapple don't worry you really won't know it's there, it just make the cake super moist...

I made it last week and gave my Mom half and my husband and my girls snacked on it all week long..It really is a wonderful cake and one of the most moist cakes I have ever tasted, and it's one of those recipes I will pass on to my girls, I have made it for many years now, and everyone loves it...try it!!!

Do Nothing Cake:

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 eggs, slightly beaten

1/2 teaspoon salt

20 ounce can CRUSHED pineapple, undrained

2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine all ingredients and mix by hand. Do not use an electric mixer. Pour into greased 13x9 inch pan and bake 30-35 minutes. Spread topping below over cake while warm.

Topping:

5 ounce can evaporated milk

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups coconut

1 cup chopped pecans

In a medium saucepan, mix evaporated milk, butter and sugar, boil 5 minutes. Stir in coconut and pecans...Pour over warm cake....Enjoy!!! You will love this one!!!

Can't you just tell this is going to be good!!!

Moist, delicious goodness!!!!!

Crockpot Chicken and Dressing...

2010-02-04T11:43:00.000-08:00

Okay girls, if you don't try any other recipe on my recipe blog, you MUST try this one..I cannot tell you how simple it is, and the dressing is out of this world..I mean I knew dressing is made out of cornbread, but who would have thought of frozen biscuits, and I kid you not, you will never know the difference the dressing is DELICIOUS!!!!! Okay, get out that crockpot and get to making this!!!!! I have made it for many years, and wanted to share it with you all!!!

Crockpot Chicken & Dressing:

3 cups chicken (boiled and shredded)

8 Pillsbury "southern style" frozen biscuits-found in the freezer section at your grocery store-I crumble them up after I bake them in the oven...

2 tablespoons sage

1 stick butter, melted

1 can cream of celery soup

1 can cream of chicken soup

medium onion, chopped

2 eggs

Mix all ingredients except chicken and cream of chicken soup. Now, layer the dressing mix on the bottom, then the 2nd layer will be the chicken, and the top layer the cream of chicken soup. Cook on low 3 hours, or High for 1 1/2 hours....Enjoy...you will love this!!

Really, frozen biscuits make the best dressing...
The dressing mixture..

Layering in the crockpot..

I forgot to take a picture, and remembered as my husband was eating...LOL, so I grabbed my camera and snapped it, before he ate it all...he loves this dish!!!!

Better late than never..

2010-01-15T13:38:00.001-08:00

Okay, so I am late with my lasagna recipe, but like I said better late than never...This is from my Pioneer Woman Cooks cookbook, that I got for Christmas. I LOVE this cookbook and think the Pioneer Woman is brillant and witty and I love her recipes....and this lasagna recipe is a crowd pleaser, of course my husband LOVES lasagna and it's quite an accomplishment seeing that is mom is Italian and was raised around his grandmother's from scratch Italian cooking, she even made her own noodles..Well, not to worry I wasn't about to do that, but he thinks this ranks right up there with his grandmother, so that deserves an award in my book...you must try this recipe, it's easy and soooo fresh, all the ingredients are so fresh, and if you are not a sausage lover, don't worry you will never know it's there, I promise..

Lasagna..recipe from Pioneer Woman..

1 tablespoon olive oil

Salt

10 ounces lasagna noodles

1 pound mozzarella cheese(you can buy already grated to save a step)

1 1/2 pounds hamburger

1 pound hot breakfast sausage(I am not a fan of hot, so I used mild breakfast sausage and worked wonderfully)

4 garlic cloves, finally chopped

Two 6-ounce cans tomato paste

Two- 14.5 ounce cans whole tomatoes

Freshly ground black pepper

10-12 fresh basil leaves

1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley

3 cups low-fat cottage cheese

2 eggs, beaten

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the olive oil and a dash of salt. Cook the lasagna noodles according to package directions, until al dente. Drain the noodles and lay them flat on a piece of aluminum foil.

Grate the mozzarella cheese, set aside. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, saute the hamburger, sausage, and garlic until brown. Drain off excess fat. Add the tomatoes with their juice, tomato paste, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and freshly ground black pepper. Stir together well. Simmer over low heat, uncovered, for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Cut the basil into chiffon-ade by stacking leaves on top of one another rolling them tightly, then cutting across. Finely, chop the parsley. Add HALF the herbs to the meat mixture and stir together.

In a medium bowl, combine the cottage cheese, eggs, 1/2 cup of the Parmesean cheese and the other half of the herbs. Stir together well. Now, it's time to assemble the lasagna.

Begin by laying 4 lasagna noodles in the bottom of a deep rectangular baking pan. The noodles should slightly overlap. Spoon half the cottage cheese mixture onto the noodles. Spread to distribute evenly. Sprinkle half the mozzarella on top of the cottage cheese mixture. Spoon just under half the meat mixture on top of the mozzarella. Spread evenly, being careful not to disrupt the layers below. Now repeat the process, beginning with a layer of lasagna noodles. Followed by the cottage cheese mixture, then the mozzarella. Ending with a thick layer of meat mixture.

Sprinkle the remaining 1/2 cup Parmesan over the top. Bake for 35-45 minutes until the lasagna is hot and bubbly. Allow to stand 10 minutes before cutting into squares. Serve with crusty French bread.

btw, lasagna can be fully assembled and frozen, unbaked...we sure didn't do that but you can if you want..

I am telling you the best lasagna recipe ever......and if it can stand against an Italian grandmother it's gotta be good!!!

I wish I would have taken a pic of the thickness of this lasagna, you will have to trust me on this one, thick and hearty....delish..

Double Chocolate Chip Poundcake...

2010-01-08T11:36:00.000-08:00

Well, it's about time for a new post, with the holidays and this week both my girls sick, I am very behind with my recipe blog, but catching up slowly but surely...This has become one of my husband's new favorite desserts, he is a big chocolate eater, so it's perfect for him..I think you all will love it, it's super easy and sooo moist, the chocolate pudding and chocolate morsels added to the cake mix gives it a little different twist too...Enjoy..Stay tuned, I have a great lasagna recipe coming this weekend that is to die for....

Double Chocolate Chip Pound Cake..

1 (18.25-ounce) box yellow cake mix

1 (5.9-ounce) box instant chocolate pudding mix

1/2 cup sugar

2/3 cup water

1/2 cup vegetable oil

4 large eggs

8 ounce sour cream

12 ounce bag MINI chocolate morsels

Garnish:Confectioners' sugar

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour bundt pan really well...

In a large bowl, combine cake mix, pudding mix, and sugar. Add water, oil and eggs. Beat with an electric mixer at medium speed until smooth. Stir in sour cream and mini chocolate morsels.

Pour batter into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour, or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cook in pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool completely on a wire rack. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.....I told you ohhhh, so easy and soooo good too!!!

Coconut Pie

2009-12-09T10:15:00.000-08:00

I have made this pie for many years, my husband loves coconut, so that and the fact I had almost a whole bag of coconut left over after Thanksgiving is why I made this pie last week, plus it's super easy, you can use a homemade pie shell or store bought, both work very well..

The best part is that is makes 2 pies, so we had one left over for my Mom as well...This pie would make a wonderful gift to neighbors for Christmas too!!

4 eggs, beaten

1 3/4 cup sugar

1/2 cup self-rising flour

2 cups milk

1/2 stick butter, melted

7 ounce flaked coconut

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 pie shells

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients and divide evenly into 2 pie dishes. Bake for 40-45 minutes. Makes 2 pies...

German Chocolate Butter Cake

2009-11-19T07:45:00.000-08:00

This is a delicious cake, I mean how can you go wrong with German chocolate cake and cream cheese, it would have to be a hit, right!! You must try this cake, everyone loves it!!!! I found the recipe in one of Paula Deen's magazines from years ago, and been making it ever since..

I will be making this for my dessert menu on Thanksgiving!!

German Chocolate Butter Cake:

18.25 ounce box German chocolate cake mix

1 cup butter, melted and divided (that is 2 sticks of butter and don't forget to divide it)

1 large egg

8 ounce cream cheese, softened

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

16 ounce box confectioners' sugar

1 cup sweetened flaked coconut

1 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 13x9 inch pan. In a large bowl, combine cake mix, 1 stick of melted butter, and 1 egg. Beat at low speed with an electric mixer until combined. Press evenly into bottom of prepared pan, and set aside...this is your crust...

In a large bowl, beat cream cheese at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in 2 eggs and vanilla. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth. Add remaining stick of melted butter, beating at low speed until combined. Stir in coconut and pecans.

Pour this over cake mix layer, spreading evenly. Bake for 45 minutes (the center should remain slightly gooey). For me, it was right at 45 minutes though...Remove from oven and let cool completely before cutting into squares....

This is before it was put in the oven...

BEEF STROGANOFF

2009-11-13T13:43:00.000-08:00

Okay, I know I haven't been as good at posting on my recipe blog lately, with training I don't have much time left at the end of the day, but will try to get better at posting once a week at the least of my recipes...

This is one of my husband's favorite recipes, he loves good hearty comfort food in the winter, so I always make this as soon as the weather gets cold. I can't tell you how simple it is and you can serve over rice or egg noodles, he loves egg noodles the most, so that is what we have.

Beef Stroganoff

1 pound stew meat(sometimes I use 1 1/2 pounds)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can French onion soup
8 ounces sour cream
Egg noodles or white rice

Mix soups and sour cram well. Add meat and bake at 300 degrees in a COVERED casserole dish for 3 hours. Serve over egg noodles or rice...I always cook my egg noodles and serve it all together like pic below...
Delicious and hope you enjoy!!

Chocolate Eclair Dessert..

2009-10-29T07:34:00.001-07:00

Got back from DisneyWorld on Sunday, what a wonderful time we had, just relaxing and no cooking, but I did miss making desserts for my family, so had to come home and post this wonderful dessert I made for the 1st time for my husband who loves chocolate, and my girls LOVED this dessert too!!

Chocolate Eclair Dessert:

2 (3 ounce) pkgs. instant vanilla pudding

3 cups milk

8 ounce Cool Whip

16 ounce box graham crackers

Mix pudding with milk. When it starts to thicken, fold in whipped topping. Line a 9x13 pan with one layer of graham crackers. Pour half of the pudding mixture over the crackers, add an additional layer of crackers on top of the pudding; then pour the remaining pudding on top.

To this layer of pudding, finish with a 3rd layer of crackers and cover with chocolate icing. Pour icing over the cracker-pudding mixture. Refrigerate overnight to soften the crackers. My family is too impatient for that, so just refrigerate at least 6 hours....

Icing:

1/3 cup butter, softened

1/2 cup cocoa

2 cups powdered sugar

4 Tablespoons milk

In a medium bowl, mix together butter, cocoa, powdered sugar and milk...

TIP: After I mix the icing together, it's pretty thick, I let it sit on the counter for about 10-15 minutes to soften a little, just makes it easier to spread on graham crackers...

Easy Mexican Dish

2009-10-16T07:02:00.000-07:00

This is another recipe out of my favorite cookbook, did I say EASY..LOL, it is super easy and most of the ingredients you may already have on hand!! My husband and youngest daughter and Mom loved this dish, and I know you will too!!!

Easy Mexican Dish:

1 lb. ground beef

1 can cream of chicken soup (I used low fast soup and it worked very well)

16 ounce jar salsa (I used mild salsa)

1 pkg. Mexican shredded cheese blend (I would only use this cheese, it added a great taste to the dish)

1/2 bag tortilla chips

Cook and drain ground beef. In a 8x8 glass dish, crumble tortilla chips to cover bottom. In a skillet combine salsa and cream of chicken soup along with drained ground beef. Cook until mixed well. Pour mixture over tortilla chips, and top with cheese. Place in oven at 350 degrees for 5-10 minutes or until cheese has completely melted.

Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole

2009-10-16T06:45:00.001-07:00

I love casseroles, especially since they are fast and super easy to whip together. Whenever I make a chicken casserole, I always think of my grandmother, my sister was spending the night with my Aunt and Uncle, and I wanted to go with them, but my grandmother insisted I stay with her, well, I wasn't too happy that I couldn't go..Well, she made a list and off to the grocery store we went and came home and she let me make a chicken casserole all my myself, with her instructing me all along the way. I thought I had made a gourmet meal and was so proud..I am so thankful my grandmother made me stay, she passed away many years ago, and it is one of my fondest memories of her. I still think of that moment when I make a chicken casserole, and it takes me right back there, to her little kitchen in Alabama. Thank you Maw-Maw!!! Isn't it funny how food can do that, I guess that is why I love it soooo much!!

This recipe is a keeper and I will be using it often, and very inexpensive to make too!! My family loved it, and served with rice is a complete meal all by itself!!! Enjoy!!

Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole:

6-8 chicken breast

2 cans cream of chicken soup (I used low-fat soup and it worked very well)

8 ounce sour cream

1 stack Ritz crackers

1 stick butter

Poppy seeds, optional

Boil chicken and then cut into bite-sized pieces. Place in a 9x13 pan. Mix the soups and the sour cream together and spread on top of cut up chicken. Crush Ritz crackers and place on top of soup mixture. Melt the butter and pour on top of Ritz crackers. Sprinkle with poppy seeds. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes...

I told you soooo SIMPLE and sooo Yummy!!! I serve with white rice!!!

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Deluxe Cookies...

2009-10-05T18:39:00.000-07:00

I found this recipe a few weeks ago and honestly, I forgot where I got it from, so I can't give credit to who it belongs to, but whoever it is, my family loved them..I made them because well, they looked like Fall to me, and I had all the ingredients on hand.

So, I thought I would whip them up while the girls were napping last week, for a treat when they woke up, it made a good bit, so when my sister dropped by sent some to her and her family as well, and the feedback was they like them as well...so for me, it's a recipe I will keep!!! Now, they are not very sweet, which I like, but just sweet enough and if you love oatmeal in your cookies you will love these...

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Deluxe Cookies

Oven on 350 degrees....

Dump into a big bowl:

1 1/3 cup all purpose flour, spooned into measuring cup and leveled

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup cooking oats

3/4 cup Reese's pieces

3/4 cup semi- sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup white sugar

1/3 cups chopped pecans (you can omit the pecans if you want)

Add:

1 egg, slightly beaten

1 stick butter, almost melted

1 teaspoon vanilla

MIX WELL..Roll dough into 1 1/2 inch balls and bake for 10 minutes...Enjoy!!

Good Fall Comfort Meal..

2009-10-05T07:09:00.000-07:00

My husband loves a good southern comfort meal anytime, and with me training I don't make them during the week anymore, he tends to eat whatever I am eating, which is very healthy, so I reward him on the weekends with good southern cooking...This past weekend I made meatloaf and hashbrown casserole, now I know meatloaf doesn't sound that tempting to some of you, but this is a great meatloaf recipe and one you must try!!! Hashbrown casserole, doesn't everyone love hasbrown casserole!!! Lia, I can't wait to hear from you on this one, I hope your boys love it!!

Basic Meat Loaf

1 pound ground beef

1 1/4 teaspoons salt

1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper

1/2 cup chopped onion

1/2 cup chopped bell pepper

1 egg, lightly beaten

8 ounces canned diced tomatoes with juice

1/2 cup quick-cooking oats

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix all meat loaf ingredients well and place in a baking dish. Shape into loaf...

Now for the topping:

1/3 cup ketchup

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1 tablespoon prepared mustard

Mix ingredients for topping and spread on loaf. Bake for 1 hour..

Hash Brown Casserole:

2 lbs. frozen hash browns (sometimes I use the shredded and sometimes cubed, whatever I have on hand, it's up to you..I also let mine thaw at room temp. for about an hour)

2 cups shredded cheese

1 can cream of chicken soup

8 ounces sour cream

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup chopped onion

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 9x13 dish with cooking spray. Combine all the ingredients and bake for 45-60 minutes...Enjoy!!!

Chocolate Chip Pie

2009-09-27T18:49:00.000-07:00

I love this recipe, I have had it for years and years..As a matter of fact, back 9 or so years ago, when I was really getting into cooking and baking, I was given a cookbook by the nurse practioner I worked with as a gift, and I started making this pie way back then...I was actually taking a speech class back then, and had to give a demonstration speech, well, what did I choose but "how to make a chocolate chip pie"..Have I told you how much I hate speech class in college..anyway, my thought was, bring tons of cooked pie to class, and hand it out while I am giving my speech, and everyone will be eating and not have all 40 students glaring at me, well it worked like a charm..and by the way, I aced that class, I am sure the whole pie I gave the teacher to bring home helped..HA!!

I have loved it ever since and bake it often for friends and neighbors, and now the girls, who love it with ice cream!! It is wonderful, and you have to top with ice cream...I didn't get any this time, but the family really enjoyed it!!!

Chocolate Chip Pie

1 stick margarine

2 eggs

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup self-rising flour

1 cup chopped pecans (you can omit this if you want, my girls like it without nuts, so it's up to you, personally I think it's better without nuts too!!)

1 cup chocolate chips

1 tsp. vanilla

1 unbaked DEEP DISH pie shell

Melt margarine in the microwave; set aside to cool. In a small bowl, heat the eggs. In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, flour, pecans, and chocolate chips. Add slightly cooled margarine, beaten eggs and vanilla. Mix together with a spoon and pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Top should be golden brown color when done~~ Don't forget top with vanilla ice cream!!! YUMMY!!

Sour Cream Pound Cake

2009-09-23T07:46:00.000-07:00

I have been making this recipe for pound cake for many years now. I made the cream cheese one in a previous post, and it's great too. This one is lighter and less dense and is great with strawberries and whipped cream, or all by itself with a cup of coffee. It's very moist too, so if you love pound cake try this recipe!!

Sour Cream Pound Cake:

2 sticks butter
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sour cream
3 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
6 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Cream sugar and butter together, now add sour cream. In a seperate bowl sift teh baking soda and flour. Add to the creamed mixture, alternately with eggs, one at a time, beating after each and ending with flour. Add the vanilla. Pour into greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes...Delicious!!

Crockpot burritos

2009-09-16T08:07:00.000-07:00

I found this recipe on http://tried-and-truecookingwithheidi.blogspot.com/ and love it, or should I say my husband loves it, I am training and can't have it, but he raved about how good it is, my girls loved it too!! He loves Mexican food, and I knew this would be a hit when I found it, and it was. It's so easy to make you have to try it, and who doesn't love crockpot meals on a busy day!!!

Crockpot Burritos:

1 lb. ground beef, cooked and drained

1 envelope taco seasoning

2 cans refried beans

8 ounce tomato sauce

3/4 cup water

flour tortillas

Toppings: sour cream, cheese, avocado

Mix first 5 ingredients in a greased crockpot. Cover and cook on low 6-8 hours..Place in tortillas and top with your favorite toppings..

For the love of PUMPKIN...

2009-09-09T09:37:00.000-07:00

Have I told you how much I adore pumpkin, I think it's one of my favorite things to eat!!! So, anytime I can make a recipe with pumpkin I am all for it, so this time of year, is my favorite, lot's of pumpkin recipes...I always make this recipe at the start of fall and always make it on Thanksgiving and have for many years. I hope you try it, of course you have to love pumpkin too, and with a side of vanilla ice cream, you can't beat it....

This was right before I put in the oven, I had to leave a section without nuts for my Mom, she can't have nuts..

This was right before my scoop of ice cream...YUMMY!!!

Praline Pumpkin Dessert:

15 ounce can pumpkn (not pumpkin pie mix)

12 ounce can evaporated milk

3 eggs

1 cup sugar

4 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

1 package Betty Crocker SuperMoist white cake mix

1 1/2 cup chopped pecans

3/4 cup butter or margarine, melted

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13x9 pan. Stir together pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar, and pumpkin pie spice until smooth. Pour into pan. Sprinkle cake mix (dry) over pumpkin mixture. Sprinkle with pecans. Pour melted butter evenly over top. Bake uncovered 50-60 minutes..(I actually start watching at 45 minutes, so nuts don't burn, takes about 50 minutes for me). It's done when knife inserted comes out clean. Cool completely....12 servings....You must have vanilla ice cream with this!!!!

Fall recipe..

2009-09-09T07:49:00.000-07:00

I tried a new recipe this weekend from Great American Recipes, that my Mom gave me, and it was really good, the sweet potatoes add such a pretty color to the dish, and great recipe to have on hand for fall too..
boil for just a few minutes....
Pretty colors, and boy do they taste great!!!

Roasted Potato Medley:

2 sweet potatoes

4 Yukon Gold potatoes (or whatever kind you prefer)

8 new potatoes

1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp. olive oil

1 tsp. tarragon (or you can use 1 teaspoon each dried thyme and dried rosemary)

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon black pepper

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Peel and cube the sweet potatoes and Yukon Gold potatoes. Scrub the new potatoes and cut into cubes.

Place the potatoes in a large saucepan. Add enough salted water to cover the potatoes. Bring to a boil and cook for 3-5 minutes. Drain.

Spread the potatoes in a single layer on a large nonstick baking sheet.

Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with tarragon, salt, and pepper. Roast until browned and crisp, about 25 minutes. Serve immediately..

Catching up and recipe to come this weekend...

2009-09-03T15:12:00.001-07:00

Well, you know something is wrong when there is no new recipe of the week, my Mom has been in the hospital and released last weekend and at home, but not feeling great, so my recipe making has been put on the back burner...Promise to make something this weekend though and post!!!

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Roasted Chicken with fingerling potatoes..

2009-08-17T08:52:00.000-07:00

I have been wanting a good roasted chicken recipe. I know you can go to the store and get a rotisserie chicken, but I wanted a good go to recipe made with fresh ingredients that is much healthier than a rotisserie chicken. Even though I have this recipe blog and LOVE to cook and bake for my family and others, we eat very healthy here for the most part, now that I am training, but on the weekends I make special things for the girls and my hubby, but lots of times, I don't get to eat myself. So, this weekend, I really wanted a recipe the family would love and that is healthy enough that I could enjoy it too!!!

Finally, I found one from Goop, it's a site I found by accident, but it's by the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who happens to love to cook for her family, like I do, and believe it or not, this recipe is wonderful and healthy!!!! It was our Sunday dinner, and it may just be a tradition here on Sundays now that I have a great recipe, it's super easy and I love cooking with fresh herbs, and it really doesn't take much time either, so try it I know you will love it too...

Quick Roasted Chicken and Potatoes

3 to 4 pound chicken, washed and dried
1 lemon, cut in half
6 garlic cloves, peeled
a few springs of fresh rosemary, sage, and thyme (I used all 3 and it smelled wonderful)
coarse salt (I used Kosher salt, it really makes it taste so much better)
freshly ground black pepper
1/3 cup virgin olive oil
1 1/2 dozen fingerling potatoes (I peel mine first, but you don't have to)

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Using a pair of sharp kitchen shears, remove and discard the backbone of the chicken (or save it for making stock). With a sharp pairing knife, remove the thigh bones-simply follow the bone and let your knife do the work for you.

Lay the chicken, breast side up, in a roasting tray and press down with your hands so that it flattens. Squeeze over the lemon, gettting the juice on and around the entire chicken, and throw the lemon halves into the tray. Toss in the garlic cloves, being sure to tuck a few underneath the bird along with the fresh herbs. Liberally, salt and pepper the chicken and drizzle over enough olive oil to coat, about 3 tablespoons.

Meanwhile, bring a saucepan of water to a boil, and season with salt. Boil the potatoes 8 minutes.(you are just parboiling them, they will finish cooking in the oven). Drain the potatoes, and put them make in a pot with lid and shake vigourously to "fluff" their exteriors. Put the potatoes in the tray with the chicken and drizzle olive oil to coat, about another 3 tablespoons. Now, sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Cover the tray with tinfoil, roast for 20 minutes, remove the tinfoil and baste with the juices that have collected on the bottom (if not much juice, just coat with a little more olive oil). Roast an addtional 20 minutes, uncovered, or until thermometer inserted into thigh registers at least 165 degrees and skin is browned......Enjoy, it's delicious!!!

Low Country Cookies

2009-08-06T12:23:00.000-07:00

I have made these for several years now, I got the recipe from Paula Deen. Her recipes tend to be very sweet and well, not so healthy, so I don't make them as often as I used to but every now and then it's a nice treat. The girls are not into overly sweet things, but this is nice if you have company coming over.

These are very good, but like I said very sweet, so you don't need much to soothe your sweet tooth, and if you like pecans you will love these..Lia, I thought of you while making these, you have to try them..

Low Country Cookies

Ingredients:

1 (16 ounce) box graham crackers...from this also make 1 cup graham cracker crumbs.

12 tablespoons butter (1 1/2 sticks)

1 cup sugar

1 egg

1/2 cup milk

1 cup chopped pecans

1 cup or (3 1/2 ounce can) shredded coconut

Topping:

2 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)

3 tablespoons milk

For the filling: Line a 9x13 pan with whole graham crackers, you can cut to make them work like I did below. Melt the butter in a saucepan, and add sugar. Beat the egg and milk together, and add to the butter mixture. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add the nuts, coconut, and 1 cup of graham cracker crumbs. Pour over the crackers in the pan. Cover with another layer of whole graham crakcers.

For the topping: Beat all the ingredients together and spread over the top layer of crackers.

Chill and cut into squares...

To Die For Blueberry Muffins

2009-08-06T12:13:00.001-07:00

Here is a great blueberry muffin recipe, plus blueberries were on sale last week, so you need to make these, and use fresh blueberries. My girls love them for breakfast, but good anytime, the topping is what makes these soooo good too!! My daugher helped me make these while her sister was napping, so I forgot to take a pic of the finished product, but you can see how good they look from the pics, my husband said it was the best blueberry muffin recipe yet!!

To Die For Blueberry Muffins

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 cup fresh blueberries

Topping ingredients:

1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup butter, cubed
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease muffin cups or line with muffin liners. Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking powder.

Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Mix this with the flour mixture. Fold in blueberries. Fill muffin cups right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.

To make crumb topping: Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.

Bake for 20-25 minutes in the preheated over, or until done.

2 recipes coming later today!!

2009-08-06T09:24:00.001-07:00

I have 2 new recipes I will post later today, both sweets of course, one is Low-Country Cookies, very good and very sweet!!! The 2nd recipe is To Die for Blueberry Muffins, the girls love these, and had them for breakfast!!!

Cubed Steak and Gravy in the Crockpot...

2009-07-28T20:06:00.000-07:00

I have to make this at least once or twice a month, because my youngest daughter loves it, and that is great for me, because it's super easy and in the crockpot.

Crockpot Cubed Steak

Cubed steak (I normally just use however many are in the package, 4-6)

2 cans cream of mushroom soup, you can add a little water if you want, I wouldn't add much though, I like it thick and more like a gravy..(you can use fat free as well mushroom soup, that is what I had, so that is what I used).

Just place the cubed steak in the greased crockpot and pour soups over the steaks and salt and pepper, and put crockpot on High for 4 hours, or low for 6 hours..Great over rice...Simple and easy for the girls, I serve with rice and green beans!! It doesn't make for great pics, but it's so tender, and unlike fried cubed steak, just super soft and tender...delicious....

Busy couple weeks..

2009-07-28T15:52:00.000-07:00

I know I am behind on my recipe blog, promise to post a recipe tonight!! My goal is 1-2 recipes per week, but we have been so busy lately, lots going on, so I haven't posted in 2 weeks..So, today I made a really easy crockpot recipe for cubed steak, so easy, really, it is and when your busy it's nice to have a quick recipe and when it's so hot oustide who wants to turn on the oven, so I put it in the crockpot today, and will post pics tonight!!!!

Fresh Corn Casserole

2009-07-13T14:29:00.000-07:00

Don't be shocked now because this isn't another dessert post, as you can tell from my blog where my heart really is, with dessert, I do make lots of other things too, and this is a great side dish, a corn casserole, not the traditional one, but like a fresh corn casserole, it taste like it came straight from the garden. I got this recipe from Pioneer Woman and love it, so easy and now that corn is out eveyrwhere instead of grilling corn on the cob, or steaming, this is a great recipe to have, of course you can get your husband to shuck the corn for you like I did, which helps a bunch!!

The ingredients are: ears of corn (corn that’s still in the husk), heavy cream, butter, salt, and pepper.

Fresh Corn Casserole:

Start by removing the corn from the husks. Just peel off the outer layers. Then run your hands around the cobs to remove most of the silks (strands). I used 8 ears of corn for this. Now, in a large, deep bowl (believe me you want to do this over a big bowl), begin slicing off the kernels of corn.

Now, after you get it off the cob, take the dull side of your knife and scrape the white creamy milk out too, that is what makes it soooooo good..Now, just repeat this process with all the ears of corn, cutting off the kernels and scraping out the milk…

Next, use about 2/3 cup of heavy whipping cream and pour into the bowl.

1/2 teaspoon of Kosher salt, you can use a little more, but I start with this amount.

Now, add fresh ground black pepper, as much or as little as you like.

Add 3 tablespoons of salted butter, I just cut in slices and put on top of corn.

Now, pour in a baking dish and place in 350 degree oven for 30-45 minutes, you don't want it to dry out, it should be nice and crunchy when finished...Super Easy and delicious...

My husband doing the hard work for me....

Now, after 8 ears of corn and the milk inside the cob are all shucked and ready to go..

Right out of oven, crunchy good sweet corn!!!

Lemon Lush or Lemon Delight, whatever you want to call it, it's delicious..

2009-07-07T08:56:00.000-07:00

I have made this recipe for years now, and I love it, you can do chocolate or lemon, use mixed nuts or pecans, I prefer pecans and make it your own. My mom made this dish when I was younger, and called it Lemon Delight, my Aunt calls it Lemon Lush, so call it what you want, but it's delicious..Summer is a great time to make this dessert, and we made it for the 4th of July!!!

Lemon Lush

First Layer:

3/4 cup butter or margarine, softened

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/2 cups chopped pecans (you can use mixed nuts, but pecans are soooo much better)

Blend butter and flour well and add pecans. Spread in bottome of 9x13 dish, sprayed with Pam. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes, cool and set aside.

Second Layer:(when you spread this layer, use a spatula, will make your life so much easier)

1 cup confectioners' sugar

8 ounce cream cheese, softened

1 cup whipped topping (you need a 12 ounce cool whip, but on second layer, just use one cup of the 12 ounce Cool Whip, reserve the rest for the topping)

Mix all well; spread over cooled first layer.

Third Layer:

2 (3 3/4-ounce) package lemon-flavor instant pudding mix

3 cups milk

chopped pecans

Beat pudding with milk for 2 minutes or until thickened. Pour over the second layer and top with remaining whipped topping. Garnish with pecans and refrigerate. May be made a day ahead. Serves 10-12

This is one of my favorite desserts, you have to make it!!!!!

I didn't take lots of pics, because I was in a hurry, but snapped enough that you can tell it's delicious and you have to try it!!!

Congrats to Teresa.....

2009-07-01T08:05:00.000-07:00

Congrats Teresa for winning Papa Don't Peach Bread from Breadwinner!!!! The funny thing is Teresa is one of my best friends in the world, we couldn't believe she won, I have nothing to do with the drawing, Foodgiveaway picks the winner and notifies me!! Well, yesterday I go to check and see who won, and it was Teresa, we laughed about it all day!!! So, congrats to my friend for winning the Peach Bread!!!!!!!!!!!! I will do another giveaway in a month or so and thanks to everyone who entered to win, good luck on the next one!!!

Blackberry Crunch

2009-06-30T12:30:00.000-07:00

This is a great blackberry dish, to use up all your fresh blackberries, plus it's very good. You can also use half blackberries and half rasberries too!!

What is better than fresh blackberries...

Blackberry Crunch

1 pound fresh blackberries

2 tablespoons lemon juice

2/3 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup all-purpose flour

2/3 cup quick-cooking rolled oats

5 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened

1 teaspoon cinnamon

Ice Cream

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Combine the berries and lemon juic in a medium bowl. Spread in the bottom of an 8x8 baking pan. Combine sugar, flour, oats, butter and cinnamon in a medium bowl, mix well. Sprinkle over berries. Bake for 30 minutes or until crisp. Serve warm, and of course with vanilla ice cream!!!
Oh yeah, this is what I'm talking about!!!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

2009-06-25T07:38:00.001-07:00

Who doesn't love pie during the summer, their easy to make, and normally they don't take many ingredients, and boy are they good!! I have an excellent peanut butter pie recipe I have made ever since I got married almost 13 years ago, when I first started playing in the kitchen, it was the 1st thing I learned how to make, and have been making it ever since.

I have to say, I think my recipe for peanut butter pie is very hard to beat, that doesn't stop me from trying others recipe. I came across this recipe from the Pioneer Woman and it is very good and you should all try it, but I still love my go to peanut butter pie recipe that I will have to post soon!! For now, enjoy this chocolate Peanut Butter Pie that tastes very good and soon I will make my recipe so you can have both!!

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie

25 Oreos

4 tablespoons butter, melted

Crush the Oreos until they're fine crumbs (I put them in my food processor). Pour melted butter over the top and stir with fork to combine. Press into pie pan and bake at 350 degrees for 5-7 minutes, or until set.

Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.

Filling:

1 cup creamy peanut butter

8 ounce softened cream cheese

1 1/4 cups powdered sugar

8 ounce package Cool Whip, thawed

Beat the peanut butter with the cream cheese until smooth. Add powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Add in the thawed Cool Whip and beat mixture until smooth, scraping the sides as needed.

Pour filling into crust, evening out the top with a knife or spatula. Chill for at least an hour before serving.

Ingredients:
Mixing the cream cheese and peanut butter..
now, with powdered sugar and Cool Whiop added, and see if you can resist taking a bite!!
Now, it's all done, and I added some Oreos to the top, yummy goodness!!

Blog giveaway starts today!!!

2009-06-23T07:54:00.000-07:00

Yeah, blog giveaway starts today, I wish I could do this everyday, so much fun!!! Go to http://foodiegiveaway.blogspot.com/ to enter to win Papa Don't Peach Bread from Breadwinner!!! It is the most delicious bread made with all fresh ingredients from my favorite bread bakery here in Atlanta!! The contest starts today, and you can enter from now until next Monday, June 29th, and the winner will be announced on Tuesday, June 30th, so go enter to win!!

Slow Cooker Lasagna

2009-06-22T14:49:00.001-07:00

This recipe is very good, I got it years ago from the nurse practioner I worked with right when I was getting into cooking, it was easy and very good I must say, now that I cook a lot and have many years more experience in the kitchen then I did back then, I still enjoy making this recipe, it's so easy you have to try it. Best part is you don't have to cook the noodles beforehand just throw them in the crockpot with everything else and come back hours later and it's done, now that is my kind of recipe!!

ingredients:

of course a crockpot..
meat with Italian seasoning and spaghetti sauce..
Layered in crockpot

Now, this is delcious, lasagna in a crockpot, who would have thought!!

Slow Cooker Lasagna

1 pound ground beef

1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning

1 28 ounce jar spaghetti sauce

1/3 cup water

8 lasagna noodles, uncooked

15 ounce ricotta cheese

2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese, divided.

Brown ground beef with Italian seasoning in large skillet (You can drain if not using a lean beef). Combine spaghetti sauce and water with the browned ground beef. Place 4 uncooked noodles in the bottom of your greased crockpot (I use the 5-quart crockpot for this). Layer with half the beef mixture. Spread half of the ricotta cheese over the meat. Sprinkle with 1 cup of the mozzarella cheese; repeat layers. Cover and cook on high 1 hour, reduce heat and cook on low for 4-5 additional hours. Serves 4-6

I have found that 5 hours browns the edges to brown, so I do 1 hour on high and then turn it down to low for 4 hours, you may still have some brown edges, but it's so good!!

Oh yeah, don't forget tomorrow, Tuesday, June 23rd, go to http://foodiegiveaway.blogspot.com/ for the peach bread giveaway from Breadwinner, my favorite bakery in Atlanta....you have to enter to win on their site tomorrow, just look for tomorrow's post in their site for Peach bread giveaway, I was told it would be tomorrow, so look out for it and enter to win, it's the best bread in the world!!

Blog giveaway..

2009-06-19T12:56:00.000-07:00

I am teaming with http://foodiegiveaway.blogspot.com/ for a great foodie giveaway...so make sure you all go there to the link above on Tuesday, June 23rd to enter to win...The winner will receive a loaf of Papa Don't Peach Bread from my favorite Atlanta bread bakery, so like I said you all have to go check it out and enter to win on Tuesday, just go to the link listed above to enter to win on Tuesday 6/23!!

Here's a pic of what you will win: Peach Bread from Breadwinner bakery, my very favorite!!

Pecan Dreams!!

2009-06-14T12:55:00.000-07:00

This is a Paula Deen recipe, and I have made it for many years, it's great in the summertime and very rich and delicous too!!

Your ingredients:

Pecan Dreams

1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

1 cup all purpose flour

8 ounces cream cheese, at room temp.

1 stick butter, at room temp.

1 cup chopped pecans

Topping:

1 cup heavy cream

2 tablespoons granulated sugar

1 cup Heath Bits or Toffee Bits

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9x2 dish (I use an 8x8 dish and it works fine).

Stir together the confectioners' sugar and flour in a bowl. Using a pastry cutter or fork, cut cream cheese and butter into flour mixture until crumbly. Press mixture into prepared pan, this is your crust for the dish. Now, pour nuts over the mixture and press into the dough. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely.

Now, this pic is before I pressed the nuts in, you want to get them pressed in really good, so they don't burn...

For topping, whip cream and granulated sugar together with a hand-held electrix mixer until stiff. Fold in toffee bits. Spread over cake. Cut into squares. Store in refrgerator.

FYI..Now here is what I do, because I don't like my crust to go in the fridge, and it's not getting all eaten at one sitting, I just cut a piece of the cookie crust and then I have my topping stored in the fridge and just top it as I cut a piece, the crust is way better not stored in the fridge, I just mix my topping up and keep it in the fridge and cover my crust and keep it on the counter, and top each piece as I cut it...

I keep the topping in a big bowl in fridge, and top each square as I cut it..

And here it is, creamy and rich goodness!!!

Coleslaw

2009-06-07T09:33:00.000-07:00

I have made this coleslaw lots of times, I found the recipe in Sylvia's Cookbook, Sylvia's is a very famous soul food restaurant in NYC. Sylvia was born and raised in South Carolina, so her recipes are from her years of growing up in the South, and some from family and friends. This coleslaw is from her friend Odessa Dorsey, and it is wonderful, okay, I was a little scared about putting raisins in my coleslaw, but let me tell you it's wonderful, now if someone is coming over and I am making this and know they don't like raisins, I leave them out, and it's still wonderful, and it is the best coleslaw recipe I have found, and I have tried lots of different ones..It is one of my husband's favorite side dishes!!

Odessa Dorsey's Coleslaw

4 cups shredded or chopped green cabbage (I chop mine in the food processor, chopped is better to me)

1/2 cup shredded carrot

1/3 cup raisins

1/2 cup mayonnaise

2 tablespoons sugar

1 teaspoon cider vinegar

1/4 teaspoon salt

In a large bowl, toss together the cabbage, carrot, and raisins. In a small bowl, stir together the mayo, sugar, vinegar, and salt. Pour over the cabbage and toss to combine. Let stand for at least 1 hour before serving.

Shortbread Caramel Kiss Cookies!!

2009-06-03T18:14:00.000-07:00

So, as I diet, I have to come up with a treat for the girls once a week, I prefer something that won't be as tempting to me, but I have to say these are very tempting, but the girls eat pretty healthy all week long, so I have to treat them with homemade cookies even if I might be tempted to sneak a kiss, I'm just sayin I might be..HA!!

I found these in my Paula Deen magazine issue a few years ago, and I have been baking them ever since. The trick I think is in the Caramel Kisses, of course I am sure the plain ole chocolate kisses would work, but in my opinion they are soooo much better with caramel kisses..

Shortbread Caramel Kiss Cookies

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened

3/4 cup sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup finely chopped pecans

Caramel-filled milk chocolate kisses

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a cookie sheet or line with parchment paper.

Beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating well. Add vanilla, beating well.

In a separate bowl, combine flour and baking powder. Gradually add dry ingredients to butter mixture, mixing well. Stir in nuts.

Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place on cookie sheet. (I do mine a little larger, but whatever floats your boat)

Bake for 10-12 minutes, or until lightly browned (mine are always done in 10 minutes). Immediately press chocolate kiss in center of each cookie. Remove to wire racks and allow to cool.

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

2009-05-31T08:41:00.000-07:00

I have made this recipe forever, I think everyone should have a good pound cake recipe, this recipe is actually one of my most requested recipes to make. So, yesterday I made it and my brother and his family came over because it's a big pound cake, and we made strawberry shortcake out of it, delicious!!

Mixing the butter, cream cheese and sugar....

Now, added the eggs, flour, salt and vanilla and poured it in my bundt pan.

Nice and golden brown on top after 1 1/2 hours..

Of course it's delicious all by itself...

but we kicked it up a notch and made strawberry shortcake, we added frozen strawberries that had thawed and I didn't have any cream for my own whipped cream, but had Cool Whip, so we added that on top...It was delicious, which means I had my cheat dessert this weekend on Saturday and not Sunday, it was too good to pass up!!!

Cream Cheese Pound Cake

1 1/2 cups butter or margarine (that's right people, 3 sticks butter)

8 ounce package cream cheese

3 cups sugar

Dash of salt

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

6 large eggs

3 cups all-purpose flour, sifted

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Cream the butter, cream cheese, and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add salt and vanilla. Mix well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in the flour. Spoon mixture into greased and floured 10-inch tube pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours. The top should be nice and crusty. Delicious!!

Sopapilla Cheesecake..

2009-05-27T12:41:00.000-07:00

Okay, you have to try this recipe, I found it on several blogs and thought it looked good, but seriously, I had no idea how good it was. I made it for Memorial Day weekend, and it was delicious, who would think you could do so much with Crescent Rolls, I mean the apple dumplings, and now this..It is pure delicious, and a great breakfast meal, or dessert, tastes like the best cream cheese pastry ever!!! Love it!!!

Sopapilla Cheesecake

2 cans Pillsbury Crescent rolls

2- 8 ounces Cream Cheese (room temperature)

1 1/2 cups Sugar

1 tsp. Vanilla

1 tsp. Cinnamon

1 stick butter (1/2 cups real butter, not margarine)

Spray a 9x13 pan with cooking spray. Unroll and press 1 can crescent rolls into bottom of baking dish, press seams together. In a separate bowl, blend cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, and 1 tsp. vanilla. Spread over top of dough. Unroll the 2nd can of rolls and place on top of cream cheese mixture pressing seams together again. Melt butter and pour over top layer of crescents. Mix remaining 1/2 cup of sugar and cinnamon together. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar mixture generously over the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until bubbly and golden brown. Cool and Enjoy!!

You have to try this recipe for your next dessert, it is surprisingly delicious!! I should have showed the whole thing, but my girls were begging for me to cut it quick, so this is the best I could do!!

Teresa's Macaroni and cheese!!

2009-05-26T12:05:00.000-07:00

I have been making this recipe since my great friend, Teresa, who loves to cook as much as I do, gave it to me. We swap recipes all the time, and I have to say this is the best macaroni & cheese recipe I have ever made, and I have made lots of different ones. So I have named it after her, here is the recipe, yes, it's a lot of cheese, but trust me, it is out of this world!!

Teresa's Macaroni and Cheese

1 pound macaroni, cooked

2 eggs

1 stick butter

1 can evaporated milk (12 ounces)

3 cups mild cheddar cheese, grated

3 cups sharp cheddar cheese, grated

salt and pepper to taste

Cook macaroni in salted water until tender. Drain. In pot mix macaroni, eggs, salt, pepper, milk, butter, half of the mild cheese, and half of the sharp cheese together thoroughly. Pour into greased 9x13 dish. Sprinkle with remaining cheese and cook on 375 degrees for 45 minutes until done...

For the next family dinner or get together, you have to try this, it is wonderful!!!! I forgot to take pics of the process because I was so excited to make it Sunday and get to eat it but I did snap one before we ate!!

Herbed Monkey Bread

2009-05-25T09:23:00.001-07:00

I got this recipe off of this recipe blog http://kellyskornerrecipes.blogspot.com/ and thought I would try it. This bread is so easy and and quick to make if you don't have bread on hand, but have some canned biscuits. I have to say though that I prefer a sweeter bread and not a savory one, so not sure if I would make it again, although my husband did like it. It's good for something different though..

Ingredients:

1 stick butter, melted, plus 1/4 cup melted butter

1 cup Parmesan cheese

2 teaspoons dried Italian Seasoning

2 packages of biscuits

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter a 12-cup Bundt pan, set aside. In a small bowl, combine cheese and Italian seasoning.

Roll each individual biscuit into a ball.

Dip each piece in the melted butter, then coat with the cheese mixture. Place dough into prepared pan. Overlapping will happen. Bake bread, 30-35 minutes, you may have to cover top with foil the last 10 minutes of baking to prevent browning. Let pan cool 5-10 minutes. Invert bread onto serving plate, and drizzle 1/4 cup melted butter on top.

Peanut Buster Dessert...

2009-05-25T09:02:00.000-07:00

I have a new cookbook on "best desserts" and saw this recipe and knew I would LOVE it..My husband loves Peanut Buster Parfait's from Dairy Queen when he has a cheat treat, so I knew he would love this dessert. It's a lot like the Chocolate Surprise dessert I make, but with an added twist, a layer of peanut butter and cream cheese, which in my opinion makes it a thousand times better. It was wonderful, and the first sweet I have had in 2 weeks, Heavenly!!! It will be one of my favorite desserts to make now, the girls loved it too!!

Peanut Buster Dessert

Crust:

1 cup flour

1 stick butter

2/3 cup chopped peanuts, dry roasted (unsalted)..I just bought a bag of chopped nuts for this.

Mix flour and butter like pie crust. Add peanuts and spread in 9x13 greased pan. Bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Set aside to cool.

First Topping:

1/3 cup creamy peanut butter

8 ounce cream cheese

1 cup powdered sugar

2 cups Cool Whip

Cream first 3 ingredients, then blend in Cool Whip. Spread on top of cooled baked dough.

Second Topping:

1 small box French Vanilla instant pudding

1 small box chocolate instant pudding

3 cups cold milk

Mix all together with mixer until thick. Spread on top of cream cheese topping.

Third Topping:

8 ounce Cool Whip

1 regular size Hershey Chocolate bar

Chopped peanuts

Spread Cool Whip on top of pudding mixture. Sprinkle with chopped peanuts and grated Hershey bar.

I have to tell you this dessert was delicious, and is now one of my favorites!! You have to try this, it is soooo good, and the peanut butter does add a great flavor!!

Strawberry Upside Down Cake

2009-05-20T07:58:00.000-07:00

I found this recipe on http://wwwbunnysovencom.blogspot.com/. It is just like Pineapple Upside Down Cake, but with strawberries, and I love strawberries, much more than pineapple, plus I had tons of huge strawberries this week. This cake smells and looks delicious, my girls loved it. It was very easy too, and I had everything on hand here, so made a great snack for the girls this week. The only thing I might would change a bit next time, is to add a little more brown sugar and butter (for the topping) so it's a little more well coated on the bottom, and that's all I would change, delicious, and a great Summer dessert.

You will need: Strawberries, butter, brown sugar, all-purpose flour, baking powder, sugar, milk, egg, vanilla.

In a 9 inch round cake dish, melt butter and mix in the brown sugar and add the strawberries, and then set is aside. See where it could use a little more brown sugar and butter on the bottom..

Cake Mix: In a mixing bowl stir the flour, sugar, and baking powder together. Then add the milk, butter, egg and vanilla. Mix with a mixer until smooth. Then gently pour over the fruit in the cake pan. You may want to use a spoon. The key is for the fruit to stay on the bottom, and not to mix with the batter.

Oops, almost forgot to snap a pic of it, had to snap while in the oven..it smelled delicious.

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Bake in oven for 30-35 minutes. Check the middle of the cake with a toothpick or knife to see if it's done. (Mine was done in 35 minutes exactly)

Smells wonderful!! Now, let it cool 5-10 minutes.
Now, flip it over on to a serving plate, and remove the pan...Yummy, gooey goodness..the girls loved it, and it wasn't heavy like apple dumplings, just a light delicious dessert...it may not be the prettiest cake but according to my girls, it sure did tasete good..Like I said next time I would add a little more brown sugar and butter to bottom, just so it is well covered on the bottom..

Strawberry Upside Down Cake:

2 tablespoons butter (for the topping)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 cup of sliced strawberries

1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour

2/3 cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking powder

2/3 cup milk

1/4 cup soft butter (for the cake)

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

9 inch round cake dish

Topping: In a 9 inch round cake dish, melt the 2 tablespoons of butter, mix in the brown sugare, and add the strawberries, and then set it to the side.

Cake Mix: In a mixing bowl stir the flour, sugar, and baking powder together. Then add teh milk, butter, egg, and vanilla. Mix with a mixer until smooth. Then gently pour over the fruit in the cake pan. You may want to use a larger spoon. The key is for the fruit to stay on the bottom, and NOT to mix with the batter.

Baking: Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Bake in the oven at for 30-35 minutes. Check the middle of cake to see if it's done. When done, remove cake from oven and place on rack to cool for 5-10 minutes. Then flip it over on to a serving plate, and remove the pan.

Apple Dumplings...

2009-05-19T13:44:00.000-07:00

I have seen this recipe over and over on many recipe blogs and cookbooks, but haven't made it yet, I finally broke down this weekend and made it, and boy am I glad.

Like I said earlier, my husband and I are training, so all the goodies on my blog I make, we pass on most of the time, so our girls and our family and friends get to sample, but this weekend we got to have some of this dessert, were we ever happy, it was awesome..So, this will be one of my go to desserts, plus it's so simple to make, don't be hesitant because it's made with crescent rolls, I couldn't believe how good it turned out, and you would never know it was crescent rolls..

List of ingredients, really this is all you need..2 Granny Smith apples, 2 cans crescent rolls, 2 sticks butter, 1 1/2 cups sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, cinnamon, one small can of Mountain Dew(seems crazy, but trust me on this one). I didn't use the whole Mountain Dew, just 6 ounces only..Just a tip too, you could easily half this dish, for us we had lots left over, and unless we had company coming I will half it next time.

Okay, next peel and core 2 apples. Cut apples into 8 slices each, so you should have 16 slices, that means 16 dumplings. see why I said you could half it.

Now, unroll the crescent rolls into individual rolls, and wrap each apple slice in a crescent roll. Place in a 9x13 buttered pan.

Melt butter, then add sugar and barely stir. Add vanilla, stir and pour over apples.

Now, pour Mountain Dew, I only used 6 ounces, around the edges of the pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.

Now, what happens next is magic, and pure delicious. When you take it out of the oven, their will be lots of juices around the dumplings, I just transferred the dumplings to a plate to serve, and of course, you can serve with ice cream.

My assistant was happy to come out, when she knew the dumplings were ready!!
Recipe for Apple Dumplings:

2 Granny smith apples

2 cans crescent rolls

2 sticks butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

cinnamon

1 small can Mountain Dew (I used 6 ounces)

Peel and core apples. Cut apples into 8 slices each. Roll each apple slice in a crescent roll. Place in a 9x13 buttered pan. Melt butter, then add sugar and barely stir. Add vanilla, stir and pour over apples. Pour Mountain Dew around the edges of the pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes. Serve with ice cream.

Hamburger Steak with Onions and Gravy

2009-05-16T11:45:00.000-07:00

This recipe came from my Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook and since Vidalia onions are out already here in the South, I decided to try this easy recipe, my husband loved it, so I will make it again for sure. We bought a quarter of a cow recently, so I had tons of ground beef from my freezer to use and most everything else I had on hand. I am sure if you can't get Vidalia onions, regular onions will work just fine, Vidalia's are so sweet and good though it really made it even better I think.

Combine the ground chuck, 3/4 cups of chopped onion, 1 egg, and the Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, and garlic powder, mixing well; shape into 4 inch patties. I got 5 out of mine because I had a little more ground beef than the recipe called for. Next, dredge well into 1/2 cup self-rising flour.

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat, add patties, adn cook until well browned on both sides. Remove from skillet and set aside.

Now, add sliced onions to skillet. Reduce heat to medium, and saute until onion is browned.

Now, combine water, 1/4 cup self-rising flour, seasoned salt, and pepper; stir until smooth.

Now, stir this mixture into your skillet with your browned onions and stir constantly until thickened.

You can now return the cooked steaks to the skillet, turning to coat with sauce. Cover and reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
And it's finished and ready to go....This recipe does yield a lot of gravy, so naturally it is served with rice and biscuits for sopping...

Hamburger Steak with Onions and Gravy

1 1/3 pounds ground chuck

3/4 cup finely chopped onion

1 egg

1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce

1 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt

3/4 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/3 cup self-rising flour plus 1/4 cup self rising flour

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

2 medium onions, peeled and thinly sliced

2 cups water

1/2 teaspoon salt

Combine first 4 ingredients with 1 teaspoon seasoned salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper, and the garlic powder, mixing well; shape into 4 to 4 1/2 inch patties. Dredge well into 1/3 cup flour. Heat oil in a large heavy skillet over medium-high heat, add patties, and cook until well browned on both sides. Remove from skillet and set aside. Add sliced onion to skillet; reduce heat to medium, and saute until onion is browned.

Combine water, 1/4 cup flour, 1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt, salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; stir until smooth. Stir into skillet and cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Return steaks to skillet, turning to coat with sauce. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes.

4 servings.

Blackberry Cobbler

2009-05-14T13:18:00.000-07:00

I have been making this recipe for years now, it is very simple but ohhh so good, it's named cobbler, and I have noticed their are 2 types of cobblers, some have pie crust like topping and some are more cake-like. This one is more cake-like. You can use fresh blueberries or blackberries(and even frozen like I did today). I normally use blueberries but today had lots of frozen blackberries I wanted to use, so I used those, and both are really good, just use whatever you like..

You will need: Self-rising flour, sugar, milk, 1 stick butter, 2 cups blueberries or blackberries (fresh or frozen). You will notice the Lactaid milk, one of my girls has to drink lactose free milk, and that is what I had more of, so that is what I used..
I melt the butter first in the micowave, then mix the flour, sugar, milk and butter together. Then place the blueberries in the bottom of a greased 8x8 baking dish, and pour the mixture over the berries.

Bake at 375 degrees for 35 minutes, I cooked mine 40 minutes until top was firm.
And Voila...all done, really how simple is that!!

Of course, vanilla ice-cream never hurt anyone either...

Blackberry(or blueberry) Cobbler

1 cup self-rising flour

1 cup sugar

1 cup milk

1 stick butter or margarine, melted

2 cups blueberries or blackberries, fresh or frozen

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large bowl mix together flour, sugar, milk, and butter. Place the berries in a baking dish. Pour the mixture over the berries. Bake for 35-40 minutes. Whipped cream or ice cream on top would be great with this!!

Yogurt -Marmalade Cake

2009-05-14T07:49:00.000-07:00

I saw this recipe on http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/ and the bread looked soooo good that I had to try the recipe, and although I have tons of recipes I want to post, I had to try this one and although I couldn't have any, I am weight training(yes a glutton for punishment)my husband and girls loved it, and even had my sister-in-law come by for some and she said it was very good, and my neighbor too..I think they are going to love me having this new recipe blog, so they can try all the goodies..

Ingredients: all purpose flour, salt, baking powder, plain lowfat yogurt, sugar, eggs, vanilla, zest of 1 lemon, Canola oil, orange marmalade.. (don't you love my fancy containers)

Preheat over to 350 degrees..Spray a loaf pan with nonstick baking spray, I love this Baker's Joy with flour for baking, and by the way, this is my favorite bread pan, yes, I might need a new one, but the bread comes out perfect in this one, so I will continue to use..

Sift together flour, baking powder and salt. I just use a fork to sift through, with my two girls running around my feet, I didn't have time for the sifter..Now, mix the yogurt, sugar, eggs, vanilla, lemon zest, and canola oil until combined.

Now, pour into dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Do not overbeat..

Pour into greased loaf pan and bake 45 minutes.

Remove and allow to cool slightly.
Remove cake from pan

While cake is cooling, pour orange marmalade into pan. Heat until melted, stirring occasionally.

Add 1/4 cup yogurt to pan and turn off heat. Stir to combine.

Now, slowly pour over top of the cake, allowing icing to pool around sides...HEAVENLY!!!

Yogurt-Marmalade Cake

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 heaping cup of plain, lowfat yogurt (I used non-fat and it worked fine)

1 cup sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

Zest of 1 lemon

1/2 cup Canola oil

1/2 cup prepared orange marmalade

1/4 cup yogurt(for topping)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray loaf pan with nonstick baking spray. Sift together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside. In a seperate bowl, mix together yogurt, sugar, eggs, vanilla, lemon zest, and canola oil until combined. Pour over dry ingredients and mix just until combined. do not overbeat. Pour into loaf pan and bake for 45 minutes. Remove and allow to cool slightly. Remove from pan. While cake is cooling, pour marmalade into pan. Heat until melted, stirring occasionally. Add yogurt to pan and turn off heat. Stir to combine, then pour slowly over the top of the cake, allowing icing to pool around sides...

as Pioneer Woman says Eat. Groan. Repeat.

Peanut Butter Brownies...

2009-05-14T07:18:00.000-07:00

My first recipe for my blog..YEAH, okay so I kept it simple and decided to use a recipe that is my "Go To" recipe for a quick dessert for my girls, plus you usually have everything for this recipe on hand anyway, so that makes it even better...This is really so easy my girls even help out...

First the ingredients..1 stick of butter, 1/2 cup of peanut butter(I used natural pb, but you can use whatever you have) 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 cup self-rising flour, 1 1/2 cups sugar(forgot it in this pic)

Melt butter and peanut butter in microwave safe bowl until it melts, about a minute.

Add remaining ingredients and stir until blended. See, I didn't leave out the sugar...HA..

Yummy goodness, now if your kids are like mine, they are begging for a bite right about now..

Now, pour into an greased 8x8 pan and bake for in a preheated 350 degree oven for 30 minutes, I just make sure the top is baked sometimes it's a little more like 35 minutes..

Fresh out of the oven..

You can cut into mini squares, but we like big bites around here..

And, of course nothing is complete without a big dollop of ice cream...Delicious and super easy!!

Peanut Butter Brownies

1 stick butter

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup self-rising flour

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 8x8 pan. Melt butter and peanut butter in microwave. Add remaining ingredients. Stir until well blended Pour into pan and bake for 30 minutes. Cool and cut into squares.

Yeah, we are up and running...

2009-05-13T20:20:00.000-07:00

Thanks Jennisa, you did a great job!! We are up and running, I will have my 1st recipe post on Thursday, I am soooo excited about this new blog and just sharing my love of recipes with everyone!! Come back on Thursday to check it out!!!

A Peachy Kitchen coming soon!!

2009-05-12T08:16:00.001-07:00

A Peachy Kitchen is being designed now, so it will be coming soon, but wanted to introduce myself..

I am a Georgia Peach that loves cooking, nothing fancy, but just good food and desserts that my family enjoys to eat or new recipes I try. I have a 1.5 and 2.5 year old baby girls, so I don't get much free time, but when I do baking and cooking recipes is what I love. I have a love of cooking and can spend an hour of free time, when I get it, to read cookbooks, hunting for new recipes, or old tried and true recipes..

I believe God gave us many talents and lots of people show their creativity in many ways, mine is cooking, it's a hobby I love. So, I decided to start a 2nd blog to post all the recipes to share with everyone out there..My blog is being created now, so it's coming soon and I can't wait to share recipes....I will let you all know once it is up and running...Can't wait to share recipes...

Blog coming soon!!!

2009-05-12T08:00:00.001-07:00