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…

Quick to Sew Pot Holders
It is easy to make your own quick to sew pot holders!! We love different sewing projects that are easy, especially since we are sewing-beginners! These pot holders took me less than an hour to make, and probably took me more time to decide what fabric I wanted to use than to sew the pot…

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…

2021 Garden Harvest
It is hard to believe the garden season is nearly over! We have been harvesting the garden since August. We have had lots of frost warnings, so we have been picking the garden goodies, cleaning the garden out and helping my folks clean out their garden too. I love harvesting the garden! It is one…

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…