This recipe is a great one to make for a Mother’s Day Breakfast or Brunch, even if you have to make it for yourself, you are totally worth it!
I got this recipe from a friend and fell in love with it. It is like melted caramel and once you try it, you may never want to go back to maple syrup! I make this every once in awhile when I really want to splurge for breakfast, and then again for dessert, because the leftovers make a great caramel sauce for ice cream!
OK, one of my DIL’s gave me this recipe and it is to die for good! It is definitely a girl food, so this would be perfect for Mother’s Day, Showers, Bunco, Book Clubs and the Brunches that will be coming up this spring and summer.
This recipe is a great copycat recipe that I have had for many years! I cannot remember where this recipe came from so I cannot give credit to anyone. But we have had it in our family for a long time. I have made these for school kids, college kids and even mailed them away in packages to missionary sons.
One of the great things about doing a blog, is that the recipes that I post will be recorded for future use! My recipe card is getting pretty hammered and is well worn, so now I will have a lot better copy of this recipe!
I made these Lemon Cream Cupcakes for Easter and they were a big hit with everyone. They are very refreshing with all the lemon zest, fresh squeezed lemon juice, a lemon glaze and all topped off with a cream cheese frosting! YUM. They are very pretty and would be fun for any spring or summer get together like showers, bunco, girl’s night out, book club, etc.
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I had a couple of cute little helpers at my house yesterday, so I decided that it would be a good day to make mini donuts. I wanted to try a new kind…Strawberry. So I just kind of made up a recipe, they turned out OK, but I wish that I had added more strawberries or at least some kind of strawberry flavoring. But they got eaten pretty darn fast, so I guess that no one else cared that they didn’t have more strawberry flavor!
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My husband and I have been gone on vacation for the last week or so and now it is time to come back to reality and the real life. Ugh. We had a great time in Sunny Arizona and enjoyed many fun activities like spring baseball training, shopping, sunny skies, shopping, eating out, shopping, going to the fruit stands, shopping…OK I think you get the picture! I will do a post later about some of my fun finds!
But I had a major computer disaster and ended up buying a brand new computer when we got home! It is a pain trying to re-load everything onto a new computer, but it is so fun to have a new, clean, faster computer! So now this is my first post on my new computer and it is great.
My husband and I have made this trip to AZ every year now for about 7-8 years. It is something that we both look forward to. My husband loves all the Spring Training baseball games and I love being in the warm (hot) weather so it is a great match! We have gotten so that we know the area pretty good and are learning all the road names and how to get around the Phoenix area. One of my favorite places to go every year is a big fruit market called Superstition Market. They have so many different fruits and veggies for so cheap it makes my head spin! I would totally go here every week if I lived anywhere around there! So I had to load up with all kinds of goodies to bring home. It was great!
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My mother was the best bread and roll maker around when she was alive. She tried many times to teach me this talent, but I just never quite got it. My bread was either hard as a rock or so light and airy, there was no bread! After my mom passed away, I decided to take a class on bread making, because I felt like I really needed to learn this talent and felt bad that I had not learned it from my mom. One thing that I did learn was that it is important to have bread flour! My mom used to always get her flour from Canada (because that is where she was from!) but you can get it anywhere. My bread is still not as good as my mom’s, but my family loves it and I at least have the confidence to try new bread recipes! This is one that I experimented with and I liked the way that it turned out. So did my husband!
If you have any fresh rosemary you really need to try this recipe sometime. It is so yummy! My rosemary plant was getting big enough for me to trim, so I cut off several of the stems and made this bread. I love this rosemary bread, because it has some of the rosemary mixed right inside the bread and not just on the top! This would be a great bread for your Easter brunch!
Some of my friends and I and my girls have attended the Taste of Home cooking school a couple of times. They are always fun to attend and you always get some great ideas. At one of the ones we attended they did this Baked Potato Soup. It is such a good comfort food and it is so easy to make. I usually have most of the ingredients in my pantry and fridge, so I can make this at any time.
I made these cupcakes for Sunday dinner and they are one of the kids favorite flavors! I think that they all like mint, so these were a big hit. I made a shamrock shake to go with these but I did not get any pictures of the shakes. You will just have to use your imagination for them. I just made a vanilla shake and put in mint extract and green food coloring. Then we put whipped cream on the top and green sprinkles. So fun!
To make the cupcakes I put 3 different recipes together! So now I have one new recipe. 
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I had to make a salad to take to a dinner this weekend and so I decided to try a new recipe. I saw a picture of this salad in a brochure and wanted to make it because it looked so pretty with the fresh oranges, chicken, cranberries, etc.
