Sauces

Homemade Chipotle Pepper Enchilada Sauce

September 15, 2011

My homemade enchilada sauce has been one of the most popular recipes on my site and I am glad that so many of you have enjoyed it. Today, I have a slightly tweaked version of that original recipe to share with you. We love my homemade enchilada sauce and I make it often, but I recently wanted [...]

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Creamy Hot Fudge Sauce

July 25, 2011

What is not to like about hot fudge sauce? Especially during the summer and all the triple digit weather that some of us have been experiencing. I have several different hot fudge sauces that I make, but this recipe adapted from Carnation Evaporate Milk is a favorite of ours. Pour it over a bowl of ice [...]

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Cream Soups: Good or Bad?

March 2, 2011

Canned cream of whatever soups are not a subject I would normally write about, but an article in our newspaper this morning, and a few of your comments yesterday on my Facebook page, got me thinking about them. I am not normally a newspaper reader, but my husband is, so we get the daily newspaper. [...]

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Homemade Raspberry Sauce

November 18, 2010

Homemade fruit sauces are so easy to make. They are very versatile and can be used on anything from pancakes, waffles, and french toast, to desserts like my mom’s easy cheesecake or the white chocolate cheesecake pictured above. ( The recipe for the white chocolate cheesecake will be posted soon. It was one of the best cheesecakes [...]

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Homemade Cranberry Sauce

November 16, 2010

I don’t know about you, but I grew up eating the cranberry sauce from a can. You know the kind where you can see the lines from the can indented in it. Yes, that is the cranberry sauce that made an appearance at our Thanksgiving table every year. Because of this I grew up thinking [...]

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Hot Sauce

April 13, 2010

This is our hot sauce collection. Well, I should say this is my husband’s hot sauce collection. Can you tell he likes his food spicy? Not only does he like his food spicy, he likes the right sauce for the right food, and I have to say I agree with him on this one. Chinese [...]

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Peanut Butter Pancake Syrup

March 24, 2010

By now most of you probably know that my husband and family loves peanut butter. We love it in peanut butter pie and also in peanut butter baked oatmeal, but one of my kids favorite ways to eat peanut butter is on pancakes and waffles. When I came across this recipe for peanut butter pancake [...]

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Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce

December 10, 2009

I have tried several hot fudge sauces over the last few years. I started trying to make my own hot fudge sauce in order to avoid the store bought version that is full of ingredients that I cannot pronounce. The homemade version may not be healthy, but at least I know what is in it. [...]

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Homemade Taco Sauce

November 12, 2009

My family loves the Mexican Pizzas that I make. Since they are a copycat type recipe, I have been buying and using the taco sauce you buy in a jar at the store. We liked the famous fast food restaurant brand best, so that is what I was buying, and it worked well. Every time [...]