by Jana Brown | Dec 21, 2018 | Cookies
Tis the season of a lot of cookie making, which is never a bad thing. But one of my favorite cookies is really almost a candy and that’s the no bake cookie. This particular recipe is for a chocolate almond butter no bake cookie which is a total mouthful, but...
by Jana Brown | Dec 14, 2018 | Cookies, Desserts
With Winter setting in I’ve found myself craving ginger cookies. In particular this recipe for chewy ginger snaps. These aren’t the traditional ginger snap, which is darker and crisper. I like those too, but for a really comforting ginger cookie I want it...
by Jana Brown | Nov 30, 2018 | Chicken and Poultry, Holidays and Entertaining
If you follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter) you may have caught some of our tips for an amazing Thanksgiving. We decided to gather all those tips here so you’d have them in one easy place and add a few more. Many of these tips apply to the rest of the...
by Jana Brown | Nov 17, 2018 | Desserts
When I was a little girl my mother had a special grey recipe box she kept in the cupboard. I loved this box because it was full of mostly handwritten recipe cards which represented some of the very best, most special recipes we made every year. One of my favorite...
by Jana Brown | Nov 14, 2018 | Chicken and Poultry
One of the holiday questions I keep seeing come up is how to make gravy that doesn’t have lumps which could sink the Titanic floating about the middle. The other top questions are about making gravy that will keep in the fridge and gluten free options. So today...
by Jana Brown | Nov 9, 2018 | Breads, Yeast Breads
I like making bread from scratch. There’s just something highly soothing about the smell of yeast and flour coming together. Added to the tactile sensation of kneading the dough, it’s all together a rather enjoyable past time. This week I made some quick...
by Jana Brown | Oct 30, 2018 | Cookies, Desserts
Of the many Halloween activities one of the favorites at our house is decorating cut-out sugar cookies. ((We also like eating sugar cookies, but that’s probably a given.)) My favorite Halloween Sugar cookie recipe comes from the E-Z Gel recipe book. This is a...
by Jana Brown | Sep 30, 2018 | Cookies
This week I ended up with one of those events that I totally forgot about. I needed to bring a dessert so I decided to go with an old favorite: Chocolate Chip cookies! These chocolate chip cookies are my daughter’s very favorite cookie. They are made with jumbo...
by Jana Brown | Sep 27, 2018 | Breads, Quick Breads
There’s been a nice chill in the air the last few days, which has turned my thoughts to fall dishes. One of my very favorite fall dishes is pumpkin bread. There’s just something about it which makes me feel like fall is actually here and the holidays right...
by Jana Brown | Sep 19, 2018 | Cookies
Everywhere I turn there’s peaches either on sale or on the tree, and a lot of neighbors hoping to share their fresh peach bounty. While pie fillings and preserves are a great use for peaches – and one we’ll talk about more next week. One of my favorite things to do is...
