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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Pin ItI 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.
My husband and I went to a new little Bakery/cafe in South Jordan, called Schmidt’s Pastry Cottage and it was so good that we both said that we had just found a new favorite place to eat! It is mainly a bakery with a little cafe on one side of it. They have 3 other locations in Utah and just added this one in South Jordan. They specialize in cakes and pastries and all of the pastries looked so good!
I ordered this turkey panni sandwich and I loved it and the meals come with either an eclair or a brownie! You can’t beat that!
I saw a bag of salted caramels at a boutique in our neighborhood last weekend, but for some reason I did not buy any and then I could not seem to get them off my mind! So I came home a decided to give my hand a try at making some. I found a recipe that used sweetened condensed milk and adapted it to make these. I asked my husband to taste them and tell me what he thought. He said that there was something wrong with them and I thought he was going to say that they were salty, but he said what was wrong was that you could not eat just one! He loves them! He has made several comments since on how good they are! So that is quite the compliment!
Pin ItI finally broke down and made sugar cookies for Valentines day. I say that because I know that if I make them I am going to eat them! This recipe really is “The Ultimate Sugar Cookie.” I don’t know if any of you ever go to the little cookie shops around your area and get a big sugar cookie with the cream cheese frosting and you savor every bite, well here is the recipe for those big fat cookies!
Woot, Woot! My rss reader has had a post teaser on it that I could not seem to get removed, but it is now off! Yeah! I think that I might have actually jumped up and down and shouted for joy!
So let’s celebrate with a little chocolate!
I saw these in an ad that came in the mail and I decided to give it a try and see if I could make some on my own. I liked the results and my family loved these!
They are beautiful to look at and oh so yummy and wouldn’t these be a fun little Valentine gift for that special little someone?
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One of the dishes that my daughter made for our Super Bowl meal was Bruschetta. It tasted so good in the middle of the winter. Of course it tastes better with home grown tomatoes in the summer, but hey we’ll take what we can get! I love the tomatoes, garlic and basil flavors in this scrumptious appetizer! Doesn’t it look good enough to just eat with a spoon? (And maybe I did or did not do that!)
For our Super Bowl dinner last night I had all the fixings for sandwiches and the girls brought chips and bean dip, a relish plate with a yummy ranch dip from Landee See Landee Do and bruchetta. I was in charge of dessert, which I have not been in charge of for a long time, so I asked my husband what he wanted me to make and these brownies were at his request. They are a family favorite and they make a large batch!
I cut them into footballs for the Super Bowl.
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We celebrated a couple of birthdays last night and they were both of the male species so we had grilled hamburgers, potato salad, baked beans and chips in their honor and then I made these wonderful Heavenly Filled Strawberries for those of us of the female species! Although the male species ate just as many if not more than the female. Not that I was counting! :)
I saw fresh strawberries at the store yesterday and they just looked so good to my poor fresh fruit deprived soul that I bought them and I knew immediately what I wanted to do with them! I love this recipe because their is no guilt involved in eating them! If you are a Weight Watchers person then you will love these because they are zero points! It doesn’t get any better than this folks!
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