4th of July Pie recipe Thought some of you may want an easy dessert for the 4th of July. This patriotic pie is perfect for the occasion, combining the flavors of blueberry and cherry in a festive stars and stripes design. Ingredients: Pie dough for a double crust pie (I used a 9-inch recipe) 1…
Ooey Gooey Bars The crust: One yellow cake mix box. Butter, one stick melted One egg Directions for the Crust Turn your oven on to 350°F (175°C). In a bowl, thoroughly combine the egg, melted butter and yellow cake mix. Fill a 9 by 13-inch baking pan that has been oiled. Peaking: Sugar, powdered, two…
Floating Butter Biscuits recipe It’s not a whole meal, but I could eat just biscuits and be very content. It’s taken me a lot of practice to come up with a recipe that I really like. The cream biscuits are good, but these were better. I just eyeballed this batch, and thankfully, they were perfectly…
Pineapple Upside Down Cake Ingredients: 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 can sliced pineapples (reserve the juice) Maraschino cherries 1 box Duncan Hines Pineapple Cake mix Instructions: Melt 3 tablespoons of butter in a cast iron skillet. Once melted, turn off the heat. Sprinkle a cup of brown sugar on top of the…
Delicious Small Batch Hotdog Sauce: Perfect for Freezing Small Batch Hotdog Sauce If you’re like me and not a fan of canned hotdog sauce, then you should try this easy recipe. This wonderful hotdog sauce is from a little mom and pop restaurant in my hometown. They’ve been cranking out their fantastic hotdogs since 1960…
Making Moist Cornbread with Mayonnaise: A Family Recipe Aunt’s Cornbread When I was growing up, I spent many summers at my aunt’s visiting my cousin. They lived on the very top of a mountain with horses, chickens, hogs, etc. It was like a little slice of heaven on that mountain as a kid. One of…
Tomato Gravy with Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits Tomato Gravy: Use bacon grease. Make your starter with salt and pepper. Add one or two cans of diced tomatoes. Add equal parts water per can or you can use milk. Stir until thickened. You can also use canned tomatoes and fresh together, but if you use fresh ones…
old fashioned Potato Candy Ingredients: Bag confectioners sugar Peanut butter (amount depends on how thick or thin you spread it) Vanilla Big baking potato, cooled (Important: heat melts sugar and makes runny candy) Instructions: Mix the cooled potato, confectioners sugar, and vanilla. Roll out dough flat after it chills. Spread peanut butter over the dough….
Classic Southern Biscuit Bread Cornbread Ingredients: 3 cups self-rising flour 3 tablespoons canola oil About 40% buttermilk About 60% regular whole milk Note: I only measured 2 ingredients and never measured anything else. I’m one of those cooks that never measured anything. Sorry. Instructions: Mix together 3 cups self-rising flour and 3 tablespoons canola oil….
French Onion Soup Ingredients: Note: I rarely measure anything, I just COOK! Butter Sliced onions Salt Pepper White wine Flour Good beef broth (unsalted) Leftover gravy (optional) Slices of French bread Grated Gruyere cheese Instructions: Melted some butter in a cast iron enamel Dutch oven. Added sliced onions, salt, and pepper. Cooked them down until…
