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Striped Jello Easter Eggs
Have you ever made Jello eggs? We had fun making striped Jello Jiggler eggs. They were a big hit at our family Easter lunch and most important - delicious!
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Yummy Fruit Salad
My husband loves Chinese food, but I can’t stand it. I have tried going to different restaurants several times over the years to please him. On one of these trips, there was very little that I would eat, but there was a simple fruit salad. That is pretty much what I ate that night. It was sweet but very lightly sweet and I wanted to recreate that taste. I came up with a very simple recipe that has been a huge hit at every event I have ever taken it to. It is great for summer barbecues, Christmas parties, baby showers, weddings, or any other type of get together. The…
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Flavored French Toast
My family loves french toast. We have it for supper quite often because it is an easy, filling, and inexpensive meal that pleases everyone. I grew up eating french toast with peanut butter spread on it along with syrup and that is how I still eat it. Everyone is always surprised and do not think that peanut butter on french toast would be good, but it is, it is really good. Everyone in the family eats it this way except Devin because he is allergic to peanuts and peanut products. We put cinnamon sugar on his now, but for years he just ate it plain with syrup. French toast is…
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How to Organize Cooking Utensils
As I have mentioned before, my kitchen is an older one and doesn’t have a lot of space. I try to organize and make my kitchen easier to use. I have a very limited amount of drawer space in this house. After purging my utensils and rearranging them, even putting some in the silverware drawer, I still have trouble finding what I need easily. I have seen a lot of kitchen doors fixed up all fancy with chalkboard paint and shapes traced on the doors. I do not do fancy organization, I just want things to be easy to find, grab, use and replace. I finally remembered to buy some…
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Easy Oven Roasted Potatoes
I love potatoes of all kinds but onion flavored oven roasted potatoes are one of my favorites. They are easy to make but take about an hour to cook. This doesn’t usually work for me since I am not good at planning ahead. But occasionally I do think ahead enough to cook these for supper. They are inexpensive, easy and oh so tasty! I usually like to use russet potatoes for roasting and baking. If I am feeding the entire family, I make a large pan of potatoes (probably about 10 medium-large potatoes), but only use about 5-6 potatoes if it is just the 3 of us. I cut the potatoes…
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Easy Sweetened Whipped Cream
I love whipped cream, but have always had trouble making it or it doesn’t hold up very long. I have tried several different times but it is hard to get it right. I decided to try again this week. I did some research and discovered a new recipe. It was so easy, it came out so smooth and it held it’s shape. It didn’t even melt when I put on the sweetened peaches that I had prepped that morning for dessert. This whipped cream recipe uses powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar, this is what helps it be more stable and so smooth. The recipe called for vanilla extract but…
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Cinnamon Toast
Cinnamon toast is one of my favorite breakfast foods. It is not very healthy, but it is delicious. I don’t fix it as often as I want to, but usually fix it about once a month. It is a great way to use up bread that is getting a little stale. I learned to make it when I was a kid and still make it the same way. I have tried a lot of different ways over the years, but still prefer it like Mom made it. I use regular sliced white bread, real stick butter and cinnamon sugar. I bought a container of cinnamon sugar a long time ago…
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Strawberry or Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
My family loves bananas and they usually disappear before I have a chance to make anything out of them. My husband absolutely loves banana pudding and would love it if I made one every week. I bought some extra bananas so I could make him one. We had some extra things come up and we weren’t home much and I didn’t get a chance to made the pudding, so we ended up with some pretty overripe bananas that no one would eat. This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for more details. Once they get that ripe, banana bread is one of the best ways to use them. I…
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How to Make an Omelette
I don’t make omelettes very often but we really do like them when I do. I know some people think that they are hard to make but they really aren’t. They just take some patience and of course they don’t have to be perfect to taste good. My son loves a lot of meat in his omelette, so I cut up a roll of sausage. I fried the patties first and then scrambled the ends to go in the omelette. I used ham, sausage and cheese in his omelette. I added some bacon bits to mine. That is the nice thing about omelettes, they can be made however each person…
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Ham and Cheese Hash Browns
One of our favorite breakfasts is a one skillet hash brown meal. I have been cooking this for so long that I do not remember where the idea came from. My husband used to not be too fond of this, so it became a meal I cooked for myself when he was at work. Shane liked it so he would eat it with me, but Devin never liked potatoes so I always had to make him something different. It is Shaylee’s favorite meal and John has now decided that he likes it, so we have it for a family breakfast quite often. If we are all eating it, I cook…
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