Concert Substitution

In lieu of going to the Keith Urban concert in Moline tonight, I packed up some pie crust that I had made along with the filling for a strawberry-rhubarb pie and headed to a friend’s house for some girl talk and margaritas. Oh yeah…we listened to a little bit of Keith Urban, too! The pie [...]

Dessert is Served!

Is there nothing better or easier for dessert? The cutting guides are even right there!

Cookie Project

Believe it or not, these cookies took about 2 weeks to make. The first batch I did (with a chocolate sugar cookie recipe from Taste of Home) flopped. The cutouts didn’t keep their shape and they were just way too big. Then I made this batch. A trusted gingerbread cutout recipe from my red & [...]

Who Needs a Cake Walk?

Fun Night at Audrey’s school was last Friday. As usual, we tried our luck at winning a cake in the cake walk. Out of 20 numbers, neither of ours were drawn. Being the dedicated cake walkers we are, after losing 2 tickets each after only the first try, we quit. I decided the next day that [...]

Chocolate Chip Dilemma Solved!

I have been determined to find a recipe using only the handful of chocolate chunks still in my cupboard. I found my solution in a tube of crescent rolls. I added 6 chocolate chunks to the wide end before rolling them up and then baked them as usual. There’s no picture because they disappeared too quickly.

Crunchy Apple Salad

It’s apple season and that means I’m on the search for as many new apple-containing recipes as I can find! A follower of Taste of Home magazine on Twitter, this recipe was posted last week. They boasted it was a healthy and delicious apple dish. With an upcoming “shared lunch” at work, I knew I [...]

p. 241: Peach & Raspberry Cobbler

I made this dessert as post-parade fare last night. My second dessert cooked from this book.  Forgot to get ice cream or whipped cream. That didn’t stop me from eating 2 servings, though! Recipe: 2  16-oz cans peaches in heavy syrup (I never said this was lo-cal) 1  10-oz. bag frozen raspberries 1  box yellow [...]

p. 244: World’s Best Dessert Waffle

Well, I would have to say this IS the World Best Dessert Waffle since it’s the ONLY dessert waffle I’ve had.  Audrey really liked it, too. She even put nuts on hers and didn’t complain about having to cut the waffle with her fork! Ingredients (in order of assembly): frozen waffle (toasted), ice cream, maple syrup, [...]