I’m usually a stickler for making things like muffins and cakes from scratch. However, we’re busy trying to get our home ready to sell, so I’ve been using some shortcuts in my cooking. One shortcut was using a blueberry muffin mix to make this delicious Berry Upside-Down Breakfast Cake. It yielded an easy-to-prepare, delicious cake that … [Read more...] about Berry Upside-Down Breakfast Cake
recipes
Sugar Cookie Pizzas
Last week my middle daughter had a birthday. No one in our family really likes cake, so we usually celebrate with some other type of sweet treat. We made cookie pizzas for her birthday this year! These “pizzas” had sugar cookies for crusts, frosting for cheese, and various candies for toppings. My girls had so much fun decorating and … [Read more...] about Sugar Cookie Pizzas
Brown Sugar Peach Ice Cream
I’m quite surprised that I haven’t yet shared an ice cream recipe here on the blog. Towards the end of last summer, my parents picked up an ice cream maker at a garage sale. They gave it to us and since then we have made about a dozen varieties of ice cream! Several of the varieties have been fantastic, and this is one of our favorites. … [Read more...] about Brown Sugar Peach Ice Cream
Creamy Garlic Meatballs
Over the last couple of months, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, putting together menus has been a challenge. There have been many times that stores were out of what we wanted. We use curbside grocery pickup, so when the items we request are unavailable, the stores make substitutions. Because of these substitutions, we’ve ended up with nearly … [Read more...] about Creamy Garlic Meatballs
Butter Pecan Muffins
I’d had a nearly empty bag of pecans in my freezer for a while. This past week I finally got around to using them! These amazing Butter Pecan Muffins only require a couple of tablespoons of chopped pecans, so they were a perfect way to use what I had. Though they only require a small amount of pecans, they have a big, delicious … [Read more...] about Butter Pecan Muffins
Coconut Cornmeal Muffins
Some of you have read the title of this post and are thinking that coconut and cornmeal are two things that don’t go together. Believe it or not, when in a cake or in muffins, they actually taste quite delicious together! About 14 years ago I spent a good portion of the summer in Brazil. I was there doing health promotion work. Brazil … [Read more...] about Coconut Cornmeal Muffins
Sloppy Joe Pasta Bake
I had Sloppy Joe Pasta on our menu for this month, but I decided to make a pasta bake instead. My thought was that, because the bake contains cheese, it might be easier for me to add a vegetable (bell pepper) and still get my family to eat it. It worked! My family enjoyed this simple Sloppy Joe Pasta Bake. What leftovers we had were … [Read more...] about Sloppy Joe Pasta Bake
Southwest Cheesy Chicken Sandwiches
A couple of months ago we had Philly Cheesesteak Sandwiches for dinner. On a whim, I tossed some leftover pico de gallo on my sandwich. It was really good! I began thinking about how I could make a cheesy sandwich that used chicken and pico de gallo (we absolutely LOVE pico de gallo and use it on many foods). This sandwich is the result … [Read more...] about Southwest Cheesy Chicken Sandwiches