Recipes
Sweetopia Sugar Cookies
A great sugar cookie recipe from Sweetopia. Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups butter (at room temperature) 2 cups sugar 2 large eggs seeds from 1 vanilla bean (or 3 tsp vanilla) 5 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt Instructions: Cream the butter and sugar together in the bowl of an electric mixer on…
Read MorePayday Bars
This is a recipe from my husband’s aunt Susan. She makes them at Christmas every year. Ingredients: 1 cup sugar 1 cup peanut butter 1 1/2 cups dry roasted peanuts 1 cup light Karo syrup 6 cups Rice Chex 1 tsp. vanilla Instructions: Put sugar and syrup in medium bowl and microwave on high for…
Read MoreHomemade Jellies
I hope everyone out there had a great Christmas! I certainly did. I got tons of awesome things, but it’s not fair to get gifts and not give some in return. My favorite gifts to give is home canned goods. There are a couple of reasons I like to do this. First, I feel like…
Read MoreCanning Squash
I canned squash again this year. Well… I canned a squash. A 12 pound squash. It was too heavy to weigh on my kitchen scale, and too light to weigh on the bathroom scale. That meant that I had to weigh myself and then weigh myself again with the squash. It works, but you don’t…
Read MoreSay Cheese!
Just the other day, I had a friend ask me to help her set up a forum website. Awesome! I can totally do that…. or can I? I figured that the best way to find out if I could was to create on myself. And I have done just that. Give a big welcome to…
Read MoreThe Hotel St. Francis Cookbook
I found a great old cookbook today, while we were working on cleaning things out at my grama’s house, The Hotel St. Francis Cookbook. It appears to be a first addition, as there is only one copyright date. Although, because it was published by THE HOTEL MONTHLY PRESS, it is also likely the only edition of…
Read MoreChicken and Gnocchi Soup
In case you haven’t had a chance to see it, I have posted a recipe for chicken and gnocchi soup over in my recipe collection. I made myself a batch today, and it was amazing! I did have to buy a few things, I don’t often keep fresh veggies in the house, because I don’t…
Read MoreFrench Nougat
Just the other day, I told you about my totally awesome thrift find, of a candymaking book. As I mentioned in that post I was really excited to try the recipe for French Nougat. I actually learned a few interesting things while preparing to make this recipe. You can spell syrup with an “i” -> sirup (It’s…
Read MoreThrift Find!
I love stopping by the local thrift stores, antique malls, and flea markets. I really enjoy the prospect of going into a place and finding that one thing (or 12) that I didn’t know I needed. Yesterday, I stopped by the “Vendor’s Village.” It’s in the old 3D, on West Broadway in Princeton, and advertises…
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