Every Halloween, we make something delectable with apples, often caramel apples, and it has become a yearly tradition. But this year, we thought we would switch it up! We made the most delicious, good old fashioned candy apples, that have a nice, crunchy candy coating, but not overly sticky, so no breaking or ripping out…
Category: Recipes From Our Kitchen
Homemade Crab Apple Juice
It is super simple to make homemade crab apple juice without a juice press. I received this recipe 20 years ago, and it has been a juice that we make every year when the crab apples are ready to pick. It’s quick and easy, with just a few steps, to create a yummy homemade juice!…
Nutty Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
These nutty double chocolate chip cookies is a delicious spin on chocolate chip cookies. These cookies are soft and tender thanks to the nut/seed butter! You can easily make these with peanut butter or nut free using a seed butter of choice. Because my girls have various nut allergies, I use Wow Butter which is…
5-Minute Fudge Boil Cookies
These 5 minute no-bake fudge cookies are also known as haystacks, fudgies, poor man cookies, chocolate fiddle diddles, chocolate oatmeal no-bake cookies, preacher cookies, boil cookies or oatmeal boil cookies. These no-bake cookies were made popular in the 1930’s and there’s an array of names for these yummy morsels! I have been making these candy-like…
Slow Cooker Roast Beef with Veggies
The crockpot or slow cooker is an awesome way to have a delicious, hearty meal without having to cook all day! You can come home from your busy day and enjoy a yummy meal. And if you toss the veggies in along with the meat, then you have a full meal ready to eat, just…
Leftover Shepherds Pie
When I was growing up, my mom always turned leftover roast beef into Shepherd’s Pie. She’d grind the leftover beef and then toss it in a skillet with butter and onion. Then it got tossed into a casserole dish, topped with leftover mashed potatoes and tossed in the oven until the potatoes were golden. It…
Apple Dessert Pizza
We once had fruit dessert pizza at a restaurant. It was so tasty – the yummy pizza crust with sweetened fruit drizzled with a delicious icing. It was a mixture of all things wonderful in a single bite! Since the restaurant where we enjoyed dessert pizza quit selling it, we decided that we could make…
Cinnamon Pear Jam
Jams are like summer in a jar. Thickened fruit that is preserved with anticipation of being enjoyed all winter long on toast, pancakes, waffles, yogurt or even atop ice cream. We always have a good stock of jams on hand, and buy several cases of an assortment of fruits from the farmer’s market throughout the…
