The cinnamon roll you want on Christmas morning or any morning. From scratch, sweet and comforting, these Chocolate Chip Walnut Cinnamon Rolls are perfect. Make them the night before to make your morning even easier. The holiday season can be tough for anyone. It's 4 weeks of crazy with a bunch of family and wrapping paper involved. So, after a week that has seemed like a ...
Desserts
Old Fashioned Soft Molasses Cookies
Old Fashioned Soft Molasses cookies are sweet and tender with hints of the subtle earthiness that fresh molasses brings to anything. Cookies are my weakness. If a cookie and I walked alone into a room, the chances are that only one of us would be leaving that room…and it wouldn’t be the cookie. I’m not even picky about what kind of cookies I prefer to fatten myself up with. ...
17 Apple Recipes to Celebrate Fall
It's apple season and there's no way to ring in the autumn season than with an arsenal of fresh and fun apple recipes. Here are 17 delicious apple recipes to try out this season. 1. Southern Fried Apple Hand Pies These Southern Fried Apple Hand Pies are easy to make using either homemade or store bought pie crust or biscuit dough and the perfect Southern treat! 2. ...
Easy Apple Galette
Simple and elegant, this Easy Apple Galette is as delicious as it is easy to put together. Serve it up with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or a dollop of fresh whipped cream and enjoy the simple pleasures in life. For the past several weeks, I have found myself in the curious position of not being totally well. Not so unwell that I was bedridden, unable to work, ...
Pumpkin Spice Cookie Sandwiches
Pumpkin Spice Cookie Sandwiches are the best way to kick off the fall pumpkin eating season. These soft fragrant cookies are filled with a creamy pumpkin filling that will leave everyone licking their fingers. Let’s be honest, Halloween is a gateway holiday. It’s just a warm up for the really big and expensive holidays coming up later this year and the fact that ...
Easy Chocolate Zucchini Cake
It became abundantly clear on our recent vacation with my in-laws just how perilously close our children are to the teenage years. Even though our annual pilgrimage to the lake was full of the usual childish giddiness of vacation, each activity was punctuated by a solid dose of 9-year old sass. Our daughter ( now often heard referred to as “your daughter”) was the worst ...
Fresh Strawberry and Peach Oatmeal Crisp
The first week of Summer Break has been an eventful one for the kids. Their nights have been full of sleepovers, rodeos and drive-in movies, while their days have been filled with building projects of their own design (more or less). The most ambitious of the building projects so far has been the construction of one backyard fort. The original plan, which was completely ...
Wine-y Cranberry Salad
Few things are more controversial in the South than libations. It’s certainly not uncommon for people to be on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to imbibing, and I know convincing people to believe otherwise on the issue is about as effective as digging a hole with a wet noodle. But as this month of thankfulness cruises on, I can’t help but be thankful for wine, no ...
Quick and Easy Chocolate Halloween Bark
If you are looking for a no bake Halloween treat that is sweet, salty and loaded with candy then this Halloween bark is the recipe for you. This bark is perfect for sharing on Halloween night, or maybe you will want to whip up a batch as a way to use your leftover Halloween candy. You will love the mix of candy bars, peanuts, pretzels and chocolate that this homemade ...
Cinnamon Pumpkin Muffins
You can learn a lot of things from a kitchen remodel. For instance you can learn simple things like, your small kitchen houses no fewer than 19 doors, 7 drawers and 26 pulls that have to be either painted or replaced. You can learn, too, that when picking out the color yellow, there is a fine line between buttery and school bus. You may also learn that the old man who lived ...
Easy Summer Fruit Cobbler
Easy Summer Fruit Cobbler is a quick and easy way to take advantage of summer's fruits and berries. Feel free to swap out the fruit for whatever you have on hand. Looking for the best Summer fruit cobbler recipe? Your search is over - here is an easy Summer cobbler using fresh fruit. You can't go wrong with this fruit cobbler for a Summer dessert, party food or to ...
Chocolate Mousse with Whiskey Cream
Minor holidays that once were merely a reason for my husband and I to go out to a nice dinner or buy each other a sweet card are now filled with dread for me. Holidays like Valentine’s Day are now a gaping black hole where I just throw my hard earned money so that my children don’t feel left out at school. Why do parents feel the need to send their kids balloon-a-grams, a dozen ...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
An easy no-bake Christmas gift like Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls is worth its weight in gold. Make a double batch and hand out to all of your kids' teachers and neighbors! The kids are finally out of school and the final days before Christmas are upon us. The presents are piled under the tree, the twinkle lights are shining, Melvin the Elf is planning his escape, and the ...
Hot Cocoa Mix and Peppermint Marshmallows
Hot cocoa mix and Peppermint marshmallows is a wonderful make ahead gift for those special people in your life. And don't let the marshmallows freak you out, they are much easier to make than you would imagine. My kids have some extraordinary teachers. They are kind-hearted, patient and have managed to make Kindergarten the most fun place to be for my babies. Honestly, my ...
Chocolate Covered Popcorn Balls
I can remember just about every Halloween outfit I ever wore as a child, mostly because I dressed as the same thing every year. My Mom and I would pull out every scarf and gaudy piece of jewelry we could find (and there was a plethora of that in the 80’s) and we would both walk around as Gypsys for a few hours on Halloween night. We pulled out all the stops, blue eye shadow and ...