We have been busy here, like ridiculously busy. Calving season is in full swing (pics coming soon, I promise!), farm planting, I am recovering from the mother of all sinus infections, the kiddos recreational ball games, end of school year activities and functions, the list goes on forever. Recently during a rare moment of quiet…
Desserts and Sweets
Baked Coconut Donuts
Ahhhh Donuts. I use all the self control I have at the grocery store not buy one, then come home and make 10 and eat half. But really, I regret nothing. They were awesome and my donuts are baked instead of fried, and made with coconut oil so they are practically healthy, right? Ok, maybe not…
Lemon Cupcakes Decorated with Wild Violets
I don’t think I ever truly appreciated all flowers until I had kids. Sure, roses are beautiful, orchids sophisticated, a large bank of tulips in the spring is like a breath of fresh air after a long winter. But it was not until my daughter came teetering up to me with a bright bouquet…
The Best Banana Bread
I love banana bread. I kind of like banana bread way more than I like raw bananas. In fact I often buy larger quantities of bananas than my family could ever eat in a week just so I can have 3 or 4 that go spotty so I can make banana bread. I have…
Colored Coconut to make Pretty Spring Treats
It has officially been spring for a while now, but apparently mother nature is not feeling it. I don’t know about you but I need some color in my life. Something bright and cheery, something a little a lot springy. Colored coconut is pretty and cheery, and very easy to do. It is perfect…
After-School Applesauce Cake
This post is all Rochester, from the Applehood and Motherpie cookbook After-School Applesauce Cake recipe to the essential ingredient that will have everyone asking for the recipe, this is pure hometown comfort food at it’s finest. I have already gushed on and on about Applehood and Motherpie, so I will spare you that, but I…
Cherry Almond Kuchen
I was so thrilled this year to be able to actually get sour cherries in the freezer so I can make homemade Sour Cherry Pie Filling! Sour cherry pie is my absolute favorite pie, but the way my family annihilates pies, they don’t really seem worth the effort. I spend all that time rolling, chilling…
Sour Cherry Pie Filling
If I had to pick only one kind of pie to eat for the rest of my life I would not even hesitate, sour cherry pie. No, let me be a little more specific, homemade sour cherry pie. Not the kind of pie that has canned cherry pie filling… ummm, EVER! Pie filling made from…
Elvis Presley’s Favorite Pound Cake
It is my Mother’s Birthday, it also happens to be Elvis’s Birthday. Yes, my mother shares Elvis’s birthday. My mother likes Elvis….a little more than a lot. It could be classified as borderline obsessed. So the shared birthday suits her just fine. But she is not alone in her undying love of Elvis, and every…
Big Soft Ginger Cookies
One of my all time favorite flavors is ginger, I love it’s aromatic and explosively spicy flavor. One of my favorite holiday cookies is Big Soft Ginger Cookies, they have all of the gingery flavor I love without all the crunch gingersnaps, I think I have already established my love of big soft cookies in…
Chunky Apple Spice Cake with Vanilla Butter Sauce
I love surprises, the unexpected discoveries, the whim that becomes a favorite. Chunky Apple Spice Cake definitely falls into the pleasant surprise category for me. I had recently received a big box of Jonagold apples, the scent of the apples along with many recent trips to my childhood home had me feeling somewhat nostalgic. Baking was…
Pumpkin Snickerdoodles
Snickerdoodles get all decked out in pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice for fall, and I love it! Pumpkin Snickerdoodles are like a marriage made in cookie heaven between Bakery Style Pumpkin Cookies and Classic Snickerdoodles, I am pretty sure if you like either of those cookies you will love pumpkin Snickerdoodles! These cookies are soft, chewy…
Apple Praline Bread
I love food, all kinds. But it is not just the eating part I love, all the best foods have a story. It is the food stories that that really makes me connect with food. Whenever I am given a recipe I love to hear about it; find out where it came from, how it…
Farmers Market Blueberry Cherry Salsa with Cinnamon Sugar Tortillas
This summer I have started going to the farmers market with my mother in law, or more accurately I go to I relieve my husband who goes first thing in the morning. Don’t worry I am not sitting at home enjoying Saturday morning cartoons while the rest of the family is at market, I am…
Frozen Fruit Cups
I have learned something about myself this summer: I don’t do the summer months well. I am not sure if it has to do with age, as I am creeping up to the halfway point of my 30’s, or if this summer has just been extra unbearable, but I do not I am not gracefully…
Double Chocolate zucchini bread
I love zucchini when it first becomes available, there is usually such and abundance I take full advantage of the veggie surplus by sneaking it into as many baked goods as I can. I think good old fashioned zucchini bread is great, but usually after my 5th loaf has been packed away into the freezer…
Strawberry Trifle
It seems odd starting a story about a recipe in the dentists office, but the that is exactly where my Strawberry Trifle recipe came from. Last week I had to make a trip to my dentist’s office for a cracked filling that was bothering me. When I checked in the hygienists and receptionists where all…
Blackberry Coffee Cake with Lemon Glaze
I have a little secret, I am pretty competitive. I enjoy entering competitions, especially if there is baking involved. I love participating in the local County Fair Open Class domestics, and I have done pretty well, but the “Best of Fair” has always eluded me, and I have decided this is the year I…
Strawberry-Rhubarb Grunt
When my husband and I got married we had no household necessities, we were both living at home and did not have much in the way of household goods to take with us to our new home. So our registry included most of the stuff that any functioning kitchen and household needs, and any cash…
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
I have had a killer craving for anything chocolate peanut butter for a few days now. When I finally decided it was time to give in to my craving, I knew I needed something way more substantial than Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies. I needed something I could really sink my teeth into, something that…
