Here is another cold weather favorite of ours.  Ya’ll know me well enough by now to remember I cook a lot with organic ingredients.  But sometimes, I deviate from what I preach, and bring some “processed” items home to the pantry.  I love to keep Chicken Pot Pie ingredients handy in the winter, because I [...]

I’ve got a couple more quick treats for fall gatherings.
HAYSTACKS -They disappear as quickly as they are made.

In a large microwave safe bowl add:

1/2 pound white chocolate almond bark
1 12 oz package chocolate chips
1 cup peanut butter OR butterscotch chips
12 oz package Chow Mein Noodles
1-2 cups dry roasted peanuts (optional)

Melt chocolates and [...]

Here are some quick and easy treats to prepare for a Fall Festival, a Bonfire, a fall campout, or Halloween.  We aren’t big into all things scary for Halloween around here.  But we do like to celebrate God’s creation, His beauty, and harvest time for Halloween.  Following are some of our family traditions for our [...]

Very soon there will be a lot of pumpkin carving and massacring at our house, which means there will be a lot of pumpkin seeds.   We couldn’t bear to throw away such a delicacy as pumpkin seeds. They are tasty and loaded with nutrients and our kids love them!  So this fall, before you carve [...]

I’ve already made 2 batches of Pumpkin Nut Bread.  The first time I deviated from my favorite stand by recipe, which was my mother’s, and made Paula Deen’s.  To sum up the difference I will quote Micah, “Mom, can you make your recipe next time?  It’s a lot better.”  This recipe is simple and pretty [...]

I had never given much thought to Pumpkin Butter until recently.  To break the rainy month blues one Saturday evening, we loaded up the kids and drove to Cool Springs just to roam around for a while.  I had a few moments to myself, and the aroma pouring out of WILLIAMS SONOMA drew me inside [...]

Do you need a quick and easy snack for an upcoming fall festival? Search no more. The kids love these Cobweb Cookies, made with cake mix, egg, Cool Whip, and powdered sugar. Watch out, they tend to disappear before your eyes!

1 box devil’s food cake mix
1 egg
6 oz Cool Whip (about ¾ [...]

We’ve made apple chips and apple pie and enjoyed the taste and aroma of all things apples. We’ve had fried apples and we’ve frozen several bags of apples to use through the long cold winter. There really isn’t anything complicated about peeling, slicing and freezing apples. Here’s how I prepared our winter stash from those [...]

Here’s one of my hubby’s favorite fall pie recipes. My daughter and I went to the apple orchard this week and bought a case of Winesap apples. Although Granny Smith is the standard apple for making apple pie, we are won over to Wine saps now. I quit counting the number of [...]