Visit our Bread Recipes page for more fantastic homemade breads! There are times when nothing but a biscuit will do. Drop biscuits are okay, they can fill in the gaps when you are desperate and short on time, but most of the time, what I'm really and truly hankering for is a lofty, perfect, flaky, layered-from-top-to-bottom, golden brown, moist, golden brown, and delicious biscuit. I'm talking about the kind where you can split it in half with your fingers and slather with cold butter and strawberry jam or cover with sausage gravy. My biscuits were always really good... My grandma's from Arkansas, folks, and she's an amazing cook and View Post
6-Week Bran Muffins
Visit our Bread Recipes page for more fantastic homemade breads!isit our Bread Recipes page for more fantastic homemade breads! For years upon years upon years, drawing close to a decade and a half, I've been making 6-Week Bran Muffins. They're really more of a Bran-ish muffin really... Why Bran-ish? Because it doesn't fit in the normal bran muffin box. They're lighter both in color and texture than the average bran muffin, gently sweet and über-easy. Oh- and you can store the batter in your refrigerator for 6 weeks. More on that in a moment... 6-Week Bran Muffins are simpler and more convenient than just about any other muffin View Post
Pumpkin Spice Chai Latte Recipe {real pumpkin}
This classic post was originally published in September of 2013. It's officially the first day of fall, so you KNOW you tea drinkers need to get in on the pumpkin spice latte train. Oh, and my kids are no longer sick. Hooray for the passage of time. Four out of five of my kids are sick. Snuffling, sneezing, sore throat, goobery, gloppy, walking-petri-dish, tissue-dropping sick. This comes at the end of a week that was so busy that I didn't know whether I was coming or going two-thirds of the time. There are five kids in this house, friends, you can imagine how many extra-curricular activities we have... To cap it off, my darling Evil View Post
Playing games in good taste: FarmVille to Table
Are you a fan of FarmVille? Boy do I have some fun news for you! What do you call it when the game making powerhouse Zynga decides to release a game chock full of recipes featuring the bounty of summer harvested, fresh, home-cooked foods? Well, first you call it delicious and fun! Then you call it FarmVille 2: Country Escape, Zynga's latest mobile game. I don't often get excited about games, but this one has my attention! A game that rewards you with real recipes? Oh my, yes please! What I LOVE about this is that players can enter their own recipes in the game. And what's even more fun is that Zynga is calling all cooks for the chance to be View Post
Mega Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Waffle Stacks
My husband was gone all last week on business. He was in Florida where it was in the high seventies and low eighties. I was here with the five kids, twelve chickens, two dogs, and temperatures in the single digits and negatives overnight. Was I bitter like the cold? Nope, I was far too busy to begrudge my warmth-loving husband's well-timed business trip because I was just getting the regular routine of school, chores, wood-stove feeding, extracurricular activities, work, and life-in-general done around here. I'll confess, that I really amped up indulgence factor in our usual food as a way to head off any self pity. I mean cheese, butter, View Post
Pumpkin Cheesecake Milkshake
Disclosure: This post brought to you by Kraft Foods. All opinions, recipes and photos are, as always, my own. Thanksgiving is drawing near so fast my head is almost spinning. I eagerly await it all year long and to think we're this close? It is far and away my favourite feast of the year. Food, family, gratefulness... it's like a wonderfulness bomb that explodes joy all over my heart. Is that too much? I can't help it. I love it so. And I love ALL of it: the planning, the lead up, the actual event, and the days following it. It makes me feel giddy. Is anyone else about ready to pop? In this season of togetherness, friends, and View Post
Elvis Frozen Bananas (with Chocolate, Peanuts, and Bacon!)
There are few treats simpler and more satisfying than a chocolate covered frozen banana when the days are steamy hot. It takes very little by way of ingredients, skill, or equipment, and everybody (with the exception of the banana hating contingent) loves them. My kids have even taken to making them without my help when the urge is upon them. I'm all in on self-reliance, especially if it buys me five minutes of sitting down! ...And then, while noodling around on facebook last week, I saw a post from Leite's Culinaria that stopped me cold. It was a frozen banana post by Matt Armendariz, but it wasn't any old frozen banana... It was a riff View Post
Cherry Habanero Lime Jam
While working my way through the sixty pounds of cherries I had ordered from the Amish store, I got to the point where I was making jam. On a whim, I minced and tossed a little fresh habanero pepper into my regular cherry lime jam. Whoa. It was so good I made everyone in the house come taste it right away. I even made the "I only like jelly I don't like jam" crew try it. Now before anyone gets made at me for making a bunch of kids try habanero jam, I'd like to remind you these are MY kids and they were raised on spicy stuff. Besides, it isn't face-meltingly hot, but it has a little background warmth that you can't get without the little View Post
Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes (Not made with strawberry flavoured gelatin!)
I find Mother's Day a surprisingly difficult subject about which to write. I've started and stopped this post at least five different ways. I'm a mother (of five boys, thankyouverymuch) and I'm a daughter, and we're talking about Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes, so what's the problem? The problem is that there as many views on Mother's Day as there are mothers in the world. Besides that, there is a whole group of folks who think Mother's Day is a made up ploy to sell more greeting cards. How do you hit the right note for everyone? Short answer: you can't. I can't speak for motherhood as a whole, because I'm just one member of the club, so View Post
Piña Colada Smoothies | Vegan and Dairy Free
Piña Colada Smoothies are my new go-to smoothie. They're kind of fabulous. You know how I've told you I was a picky eater when I was a kid? I was a total texture-phobe and I was dead picky about flavour combinations. My mom now says, "Hey, we just didn't know you were gourmet." My mom is the Queen of the Euphemism. I must've been a righteous pain in the rear to feed. The reason I'm confessing this (again) is that pineapple and coconut were both on my no-fly list. I didn't like pineapple because of the stringy texture. I didn't like coconut because the sum exposure I had to coconut in Northern Michigan in the 70s and 80s was View Post
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