Last Tuesday I gave you the link to a list of common kitchen and pantry substitutions. I’ve used the lemon juice in milk substitution for sour cream in a recipe without any problems. I’ll be using that much more often instead of purchasing sour cream. While that’s a great savings, I really wanted to figure out a substitution for sour cream as a topping. Here’s what I came up with: Soften 5 oz. cream cheese in the microwave on low {Read More}
Recipe for Your Own Sour Cream Topping Substitution
March 7, 2012 by 2 Comments
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Make a Heart Shaped Cake Without a Heart Shaped Pan, and Other Valentine’s Tricks
February 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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If you’re like me, you always have these grand ideas of things to make (whether it’s baking or crafting). But then you’re missing one important item and figure that it can’t be made. I’m a big believer in making do with what you have, but I still find myself giving up way too easily. Not to mention waiting until the very. last. minute to fulfill a commitment like baking for a party. Here are some ideas to put together a {Read More}
Make Your Own Girl Scout Cookies : Free Recipe E-Cookbook
February 5, 2012 by
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As we’ve cut our expenses over the years, one of the many things we’ve given up has been girl scout cookies. I remember selling them at $.50 a box. But the last time I bought them they were $4 each and the boxes had fewer cookies in them. I can bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies using my own ready to bake from the fridge recipe for much less and have 2 or 3 times as many cookies! I {Read More}
Triple Chocolate Brownies in the Crockpot or Slow Cooker
January 26, 2012 by 1 Comment
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I happened upon a delicious looking recipe on Martha Stewart the other day. We finally gave it a try this morning and boy does the house smell yummy. Since I have a deficiency in the cooking department I didn’t exactly follow the directions on how to make them, and I didn’t have all the ingredients on hand so I did some substituting and they do in fact taste delicious! I’ll show you what the recipe calls for and what I {Read More}
5 Minute Onion Mushroom Pork Chops
January 19, 2012 by
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I know that I promised a brownie recipe for today, but I never got around to trying it myself because I didn’t have enough eggs. I’ll plan it for next week though! This is one of the easiest recipes I’ve ever cooked! Seriously- about 5 mins of prep time and that’s it! My sweet mother-in-law shared it with me last fall as I was overwhelmed (as usual) with how to put dinner on the table with two small children underfoot. {Read More}
Crockpot Beef Stroganoff Recipe
January 5, 2012 by 5 Comments
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My mother in law made a recipe book for each of her kids this Christmas with all of her favorite recipes. I’m excited to start trying some recipes that my husband grew up with, because my Mother in law is a fabulous cook! This is the first of many family recipes that I’ll be sharing with you. Crockpot Beef Stroganoff Ingredients 1 and a half lbs. stew meat 1 pkg. dry onion soup mix 1 can cream of chicken soup {Read More}
Pancake Mix Recipe – Less Than Half the Cost of Store Bought
January 4, 2012 by
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A few weeks ago my husband took the pancake mix box down from the cabinet to find very little left. He did a quick search online and came up with this recipe to make his own. It tasted just like normal, so I didn’t even know he had made the mix himself. Yesterday he measured and mixed up several batches and put them into a tupperware container, so we won’t be buying manufactured mixes again! Pancake Mix Ingredients 1 Cup {Read More}
Creamy Cheesy Garlic Mashed Potatoes
December 17, 2011 by 1 Comment
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My husband has become quite the experimenter in recent years as he’s begun watching cooking shows with our little Turkey a.k.a. the next Iron Chef. Our mashed potatoes have become more and more fancy and I actually love them! This recipe is one of those “a little of this” and “a little of that” recipes since it’s hard to have the exact same amount of potatoes to work with each time. Your 4 large potatoes may be the size of {Read More}
Crock Pot Chicken Spaghetti
December 10, 2011 by 2 Comments
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It doesn’t get much better than a meal you can cook in the crockpot and then freeze to eat later! Ingredients 4 cups chopped or shredded baked chicken breasts 2 cans Rotel 1 lb. velveeta 2 cans cream of chicken soup 1 8 oz pk angel hair or thin pasta 1 can chicken broth (optional) Directions Prepare pasta using chicken broth if desired While preparing pasta, cube velveeta Combine soup, chicken, velveeta cubes, and rotel in crockpot and cook on {Read More}
Orange Sugar Cookies
December 3, 2011 by 2 Comments
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This week’s theme for the Dishing It Up recipe hop is Christmas cookies. My first thoughts were “Christmas cookies? I don’t make those!” In all honesty, I’m a chocolate kind of girl. I’m also a lazy kind of girl, so my idea of Christmas cookies is to use the Christmas swirl chocolate chips in my recipe for ready to bake chocolate chip cookies so that I can have them fresh anytime I want. Somehow I didn’t think that really counted {Read More}