Healthy Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Muffins

For our family the perfect muffin has to be healthy and also nut free (my daughter’s daycare is nut free), low carb for me and yet still delicious and moist for my husband.   I’m not an expert baker so I wanted something that would be quick and easy to make and relatively foolproof.   After combining… [Continue Reading]

The Best Soft and Chewy White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies Ever!

White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies have to be some of the BEST cookies ever.  These cookies are slightly crisp on the outside with a soft and chewy inside, full of chunks of macadamia nuts and white chocolate.  Very drool worthy!  What is your favorite kind of cookie?
INGREDIENTS

1 pound (2 cups) butter, room temperature
1 2/3 cup… [Continue Reading]

Delicious Maple & Bacon Cookies

Hmmmm, I’m not sure how maple and bacon cookies are going to taste but they sure look good! If you make these, please let me know. I would love hear how they turn out for y’all.
Things have been crazy around here but hope to have things back to normal soon! Thanks for bearing with me… [Continue Reading]

Chocolate Cinnamon Bread

I enjoy making different kinds of quick breads. The flavors you see most often are pumpkin and banana. But have you tried chocolate bread? It’s so good – moist and a great combination of chocolate and cinnamon. The other thing I really like about this recipe is that it makes 2… [Continue Reading]

The Best Orange Pound Cake Ever

Last week I made Lemon Bread, this week is Orange Pound Cake.  I’m sucker for pound cake anyways but wanted to try adding a little flavor to one. This was a hit to say the least and gone in about 30 seconds.  Would have been sooner but they had to pause and drink some milk… [Continue Reading]

Dad’s Omelet

Guest Poster, Musings in Food. I’m a married, mom of 2 who loves the internet, my family & the Lord although not in that order! And I’m stuck out in the “wilds” of Arizona where the schools are great & the bugs are huge!!
So this is my Dad’s own creation. He was a missionary… [Continue Reading]

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cheesecake Brownies or Pie

Guest post by Rachel

Sounds too good to be true? It isn’t, but it IS delicious!
My ex-boyfriend had two favorite desserts: cheese cake and anything with peanut butter and chocolate combined. When I found this recipe (while we were dating, of course!) I couldn’t wait to make it for him. I surprised him with it on… [Continue Reading]

Chocolate Sheet Cake

This is my grandmother’s recipe and I am proud to share it with you.  I make this all the time and you can actually do variations of this with pineapple, strawberry, etc.  It’s super good and is a cross between a cake and brownie.  Enjoy!
INGREDIENTS:
Cake Ingredients

1 stick butter
1/2 c. shortening
1 c. water
4 TBLS cocoa
2 c…. [Continue Reading]

Country Fried Breakfast Sandwich

Just like grandma used to make!  I’m sure we all have various ways that we make our breakfast sandwiches and I thought it would be fun to show you how we make them.  Since this involves some eggs, I encourage you to join in Christine’s Breakfast Challenge by eating an egg a day.  Lots of… [Continue Reading]

Pea Salad

Believe it or not, I’m not a big fan of peas and I can’t stand mayonnaise but I LOVE pea salad!  Weird considering 2 of the main ingredients are peas and mayonnaise.  Sometimes salads that contain lettuce and tomato get boring which makes this great for a change.  It’s cold and delish!
Super easy to make… [Continue Reading]

Grandma’s Homemade Banana Pudding

This is one food that is requested from family members for me to bring to holiday get-togethers and any other time I can.  It’s my grandmother’s recipe for Banana Pudding, from scratch!  I dislike instant pudding big time and once you’ve had this……you won’t go back!!
INGREDIENTS:

1 heaping  Tbsp. Flour…and I mean heaping!
1/2 cup sugar or… [Continue Reading]

Southwestern Turkey Spinach Egg Florentine

This recipe was submitted by Jonathan, who didn’t leave a url so I am assuming he doesn’t have a blog.  Thank you very much for submitting..this also qualifies you for the monthly drawing;)

1 – Thomas Hearty Grain 100% Whole Wheat Bagel
1/4 Cup – Southwestern Egg-Beaters Eggs
6 Half Slices – Turkey (Prefer Oil Browned Turkey)
3 Cups… [Continue Reading]

Our Breakfast

I thought I’d share our breakfast with you this morning.  We, usually, only eat this on Sunday’s and lighter ones throughout the week.
WARNING:  This breakfast contains lots of bacon grease and will most likely clog your arteries, however, it tastes DANG GOOD and having this fatty meal once a week shouldn’t do too much harm!
Bacon–We… [Continue Reading]