May 2009

Very Good and Very Easy Brownies

May 23, 2009

I made some of my favorite brownies yesterday. It has been a long time since I made these, but I needed a dessert and thought this would be a perfect recipe. My husband’s office was closed yesterday, so we spent the day working around the building and on the flower beds. A couple of friends [...]

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Cheeseburger Calzone

May 21, 2009

A few years ago a friend gave me a few calzone recipes that came from Pampered Chef. They were all great ideas, but I found one of them very interesting. It was for a Cheeseburger Calzone. I knew right away that my kids would enjoy this. I have adapted this recipe quite a bit, to [...]

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Roy Update

May 21, 2009

Sorry this post has nothing to do with food. It is for my long time readers and my family and friends. I will back to kitchen related posts tomorrow. I recently received a comment asking how our dog Roy was doing. I decided it would be a good time for a Roy update. If you [...]

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Whole Wheat Cinnamon Cookies

May 19, 2009

My son loves cinnamon, anything cinnamon. He loves cinnamon toast, cinnamon bread, cinnamon rolls. You get the idea. He enjoys snickerdoodle cookies. I enjoy them too, but I wanted something a little different. So I tweaked my favorite snickerdoodle recipe to come up something a little healthier. This recipe uses whole wheat flour and incorporates [...]

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New Look

May 19, 2009

After over a year of blogging, I decided I was ready to change the look of my blog a little. A friend of ours took a couple of my pictures and turned them into a new banner for my blog. What do you think? I really like it. Thanks William, it looks great!

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Strawberry Pie

May 18, 2009

This is the best strawberry pie, at least my family thinks so. It is really good. I have never made a strawberry pie before. I have had strawberry pie at a restaurant and always enjoyed it, but I never thought I could create the same thing at home. I recently saw a recipe in Cook [...]

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Meal Plan

May 17, 2009

Here is the plan my meal plan for the week. I had trouble coming up with a meal plan this week. I am not sure why, but I did. Maybe it is because my mind is focused on trying to get our home schooling year finished up. We are trying to get done by Friday. [...]

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Quick and Easy Beef and Barley Skillet Dinner

May 15, 2009

I am always looking for dinners that are quick and easy, but also healthy. I love this recipe because it fits those three things, and it is frugal. I found this recipe in an old Taste of Home ground beef cookbook. It was published in the early to mid 1990′s. The cookbook is not longer [...]

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Knife Rack

May 14, 2009

It has been awhile since I participated in Show and Tell Friday. I have been wanting to post about my new knife rack, so I thought it would be a good thing to Show and Tell. A few weeks ago, when my mom was here, my husband and I went to Dallas for the weekend. [...]