Grandma’s Recipe Box Series. For more about grandma’s recipes read my post here. My grandmother made these for Christmas every year. She would make several batches and freeze them a few weeks in advance. They were always a big hit. I hope you enjoy them as much as my family does. Ingredients: 1 Cup creamy peanut butter (I use Jif) 12 oz bag of butterscotch chips … Continue reading Grandma’s Peanut Butter Haystacks
I love visiting Charleston, SC (and my friends in Goose Creek). The wonderful company, great weather and beautiful ocean views are hard to beat. And the food! Low country comfort food, fresh seafood and some mighty fine “Q” are abundant. When I’m really missing it all I whip up a batch of fried okra, close my eyes and imagine I’m back for just a moment. … Continue reading Missing South Carolina Fried Okra
Grandma’s Recipe Box Series. For more about grandma’s recipes read my post here. (Disclosure: I work for the J.M. Smucker Company, which owned Crisco, but sold the brand in 2019. They don’t pay me to talk about it, I just believe it makes a superior crust from personal experience. All thoughts and opinions are my own.) My grandmother made a great strawberry pie, and I’ll share … Continue reading A Tale of two strawberry pies
Soft, delicious and oh so good. Seriously, no one at work believed they were gluten free. If you are baking these for someone that has a serious gluten allergy or Celiacs disease, please use extra caution to thoroughly clean any equipment before you begin. If you bake with regular flour that dust gets everywhere. I try to use completely separate equipment (bowls, utensils, measuring cups, … Continue reading Gluten Free (but still amazing) Sugar Cookies
If you want to learn how to bake, biscuits are a great place to start. The recipes are simple, the ingredient list is generally pretty short, and they only take a few minutes to bake. The lessons learned making biscuits apply to a whole host of other baking recipes so why not give it a try? This is is my favorite biscuit recipe because it is simple and delicious.
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