Curried Rice Salad with Tuna or Chicken

On the first Sunday of each month, our little church shares a noon meal. Every month, the menu is different and every month, the meal is delicious! This month, I ate the most wonderful curried rice salad and I immediately asked for the recipe. Tonight I made the salad and we ate ourselves silly on [...]

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars

Yesterday I shared a recipe for Chocolate Chip Bars. This is my second favorite recipe for bar cookies. What I like about this recipe is that it makes a LOT of bars and it only takes 15 minutes to bake. That means that from start to finish, it take less than half an hour. This [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

The other day I had about 45 things to do in just under an hour. Two of those 45 things involved baking SOMETHING for my son to take to Gavel Club–sort of Toastmasters for teens. I didn’t have time to bake off 8 different pans of cookies, so I went looking for my favorite recipe [...]

Homemade Vegetable Stock

Okay, this is a brand new thing for us. I’ve made homemade turkey stock and chicken stock for years. I knew that vegetable stock existed, but I never really had call to use it and never even thought about making it. All that changed last week when our friend Bruce happened to mention how HE [...]

Potato Chip Brownies

Here’s another recipe from my mom’s recipe files. I remember these brownies from when I was a little girl:

Key Lime Cheesecake

A couple of weeks ago, regular reader Uday Patil emailed me asking if we wanted a recipe for Key Lime Cheesecake. We definitely wanted that recipe and to our great delight, the recipe arrived yesterday in our email box.

Snickerdoodles!

Even though it’s March now, it’s still a very, VERY cold winter evening here. It’s perfect weather for baking sweet treats. When my son Jon asked if he could bake brownies for the fourth time this week, I suggested we try something different. That sent us in search of something that Jon had never baked [...]