NOW YOU’RE COOKIN’

BAKING FROM SCRATCH: Chocolate Butter Cake filled with Cookies & Cream and Whipped Chocolate Ganache smothered in Chocolate Glaze

Got your attention yet? There are so many good things going on in this cake, I don’t even know where to begin. It is delicious. It contains butter. Cream. Oreos. Coffee. Chocolate. Chocolate. And more chocolate. It begins with a recipe for Chocolate Butter Cake from The Whimsical Bakehouse. The batter of this cake is [...]

BAKING FROM SCRATCH: WHO Bread

This past weekend I got a sudden craving for fresh-baked bread. Fresh-baked bread without spending all day making it, I should say. I dusted off the bread machine and set my mind to making a loaf. Then realized that the recipe book that came with my machine was missing. I have looked everywhere! It is [...]

BAKING FROM SCRATCH: Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

I have been on a bit of a baking binge this week. Brownies, Apple Pie and now cookies. These cookies came about because I only had one egg and an abundance of over ripe bananas. Anyone else have a stockpile of these in their freezer? Yep, that is where we keep them. In the freezer. When [...]

BAKING FROM SCRATCH: Apple-Cherry Pie Filling

Sure, opening a can and dumping it into a shell is easy, but so is making pie filling from scratch and it only takes a few ingredients. This recipe was adapted from Southern Living: Our Best-Ever Cakes & Pies (2008). MAKES ENOUGH FOR 1 (9-INCH) PIE PREP: 15 MIN. COOK: 15 MIN. COOL: 45 MIN. [...]

NOW YOU’RE COOKIN’: MEATLESS MONDAY {Baked Mac ‘n Cheese}

This isn’t much of a recipe, but as you know I don’t really follow recipes so it’s hard for me to come up with one. I primarily cook by taste and feel, letting the dish develop as I go. Homemade mac ‘n cheese isn’t hard by any means and it tastes way better than that [...]

NOW YOU’RE COOKIN’: MEATLESS MONDAY {Veggie Pot Pie}

This is one of those meals that I make often without following a recipe. It’s so easy and totally adaptable. Use whatever you have on hand: chicken, beef, vegetables, potatoes, no potatoes, different sauces, whatever. I chose veggies and basil cream sauce for Meatless Monday. Start by sautéing onions/peppers/celery in two tablespoons butter in a [...]

BAKING FROM SCRATCH: Sweetheart Cupcakes

I baked my heart out for you. Actually I baked it in. I’ve been on a bit of a cupcake kick lately, so when I saw this at Bake It In A Cake I knew I had to try it. Bake It In A Cake is full of crazy ideas. There’s nothing they won’t stick [...]

NOW YOU’RE COOKIN’: MEATLESS MONDAY {Lasagna Rolls}

I’m still cooking from my pantry as part of the Clean Out the Cupboards Challenge, so for this Meatless Monday I pulled inspiration from the wonderful world of www. I don’t recall where I saw this recipe {if it was you, thank you!}, but somewhere in my wandering I came across a post about Lasagna [...]

NOW YOU’RE COOKIN’: {Foodie Fix}

This blog has been on a bit of a food kick lately, so I’m just going to roll with it. There’s a new Foodie Blog Hop being hosted by April @ The Life and Times of the 21st Century Housewife and Alex @ A Moderate Life called Feed Me, Tweet Me, Follow Me Home. They [...]

NOW YOU’RE COOKIN’: Spicy Bean & Sausage Soup

In line with the Clean Out the Cupboards Challenge, last week I concocted this soup using three cans of beans, the last of my fettuccine noodles, some limp celery, a green pepper that was getting old and some turkey sausage links that were buried in the bottom of my freezer. With no recipe and no [...]