Tried and True Favorite Recipes

I love to cook - especially ethnic dishes, and from scratch/my pantry. I love foods that combine surprising tastes and textures, and my interests are fairly eclectic. I'm excited to have a site to direct people to when they ask for my recipes!

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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

April Fool's Day Link

I ran across this blog posting for April Fool's Day foods last year and couldn't wait to try it out this year. It took me a while ...

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Fondant Cream Cheese Frosting

This recipe goes well with the Tomato Soup Spice Cake 6 oz cream cheese 1 egg yolk 3 c. powdered sugar 1/8 t. salt 1 t. vanilla Cream the ...

Tomato Soup Spice Cake or Husband Cake

Talk about firing me - I came across this photo and realized that I planned to post this recipe over a year ago! This recipe is known by...

Creamy green chile corn

I just realized that I seem to have lots of friends named Maria. One of my Maria friends taught me how to make this about 12 years ago. ...

Berry Morning Muffins

Last month a friend brought these delicious muffins over along with the recipe for my family. I came across the recipe while cleaning yes...

Monday, March 1, 2010

Broccoli, Grape, and Bacon Salad

I'm not a broccoli fan. YES - I know it is great for you healthwise, but I've just never loved it. Ironically though, I LOVE thi...

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Fruit Pizza with Sugar Cookie Crust

My college roommate introduced me to this twist on a sugar cookie many years ago. My kids decided they wanted a pizza dinner last night s...

Sour Cream Sugar Cookies

Thanks to my friend Lara who shared this recipe with me years ago. 1 c. shortening 1 3/4 c. sugar 1 c. sour cream 2 eggs 1 t. vanilla ...

Friday, February 19, 2010

Horchata - Guatemalan/Mexican Rice Milk Beverage

Horchata (pronounced or - cha - tuh) is a traditional drink made from rice and found in many latin american countries. While some horchata...

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Valentine Pancakes

I was trying to rush my kids out the door this morning and didn't have much time to take photos of the food before it disappeared. Plea...

Chocolate Dipped Strawberries

Looking for a simple yet elegant Valentines Day treat? These chocolate covered strawberries only take about 10 minutes to prepare and alw...

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Mexican Breakfast Eggs

I have an aunt who is originally from Mexico and she always made these eggs for her kids. Back in college, my cousins taught me how to mak...

Monday, February 1, 2010

Banana Berry Bread Pudding

This is such a quick, simple, and satisfying comfort food and chances are you already have everything on hand. I found my original recipe ...

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Tammi's Chicken Pot Pie

I know, it has been quite a while since my last post. Life just seems to happen and keep flying by. A month or so ago I had surgery and a...

Friday, January 1, 2010

Hot Chocolate Mix / Hot Cocoa Mix

I have a sneaking suspiscion that my kids don't REALLY like to go out and play in the snow. I've found that their TRUE love is th...

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Hot Pepper Jelly from Taste of Home

We share this with our close friends and neighbors at Christmas each year, and it always gets rave reviews. We love the spicy contrast of th...

What's been cooking lately

While December is traditionally a busy month, I was down at the beginning of the month due to an unexpected surgery. While I wasn't sur...

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Yamples or Yams and Apples

This recipe also came from my sister in law, but we re-named it from Yams and Apples to "Yamples". I grew up as a die hard candie...

Julie's Homemade Cranberry Sauce

My sister in law made this for Thanksgiving several years ago and while I was skeptical at first (really - raisins and nuts?) my family LOVE...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Canned Tomatoes

Every time I set out to make tomatoes, I have to hunt down my recipe - which is ironic because the only thing I need the recipe for is to re...

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Beth's Amazing Chocolate Chip Cookies (High Altitude)

You'd never believe I found these at my daughter's Halloween class party. There they were, sitting in a large tupper-ware container...

Friday, November 6, 2009

Blueberry Breakfast Casserole

This is a favorite casserole we sometimes make for Christmas morning. The best part is that it is all made the night before, and it cooks a...

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Halloween class treats - Little blue guys

We made these last year for my kid's class parties and they were a hit. Back by popular demand this year - we call them "Little Bl...

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Cooked pumpkin / Pumpkin Puree

Every fall I process pumpkins. What this means is, I peel, cube and boil my pumpkins (minus the guts of course) in lightly salted water. I...

Pumpkin pie from scratch

After I've processed my pumpkins in the fall, I use them for various recipes. While pureed pumpkin is definitely different from the st...

Flaky Pie Crust

I found a new pie crust recipe that I absolutely love (and I thought I loved the other one - this one is even more amazing!) 2 1/2 c. unble...

Friday, October 23, 2009

Chicken Cordon Bleu and Mushroom Sauce

This is truly an original recipe - I don't even remember where I learned how to make this, but once or twice a year when I want to make ...

Hot Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake

My favorite local restaurant is famous for its version of this scrumptious dessert. Every bite of this moist warm cake drenched in caramel ...

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Pretzels after school snack

Every afternoon, my kids come home from school ready for a snack. I've been thinking about making pretzels for them for several weeks a...

Halloween Dinner - Bloody Stump or Feet of Meat

Several years ago I made one of those impulse buys. You know them - you are standing at the checkout counter at the grocery store waiting f...

Monday, October 19, 2009

Dorito Salad

One of my friends made this for us, and ever since my husband begs for me to make this. While I searched out some recipes on the internet a...

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Moist Mexican Cornbread

Yes - the photo is kind of funky - it was the best of the lot. Just for the record, I am not a big cornbread fan. Most of the cornbread I...

Friday, October 2, 2009

Fall Soup - Chicken Vegetable & Barley

Fall always seems to be soup weather at our home. I took this soup along with some homemade French Bread to a sick neighbor earlier this w...

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Zucchini Bread

A friend gave us this yummy zuchinni bread yesterday. While I know she MEANT to give me the recipe, she never got around to it. However, m...

Apple Pie or Apple Crisp

My sister in law sent me this recipe yesterday with some rave reviews. She's a cook that I generally trust, and since we had some din...

Saturday, September 19, 2009

No photos

While I don't have photos of the following two recipes, I've had them on the back burner for a while. I figured I'd just post t...

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Pecan Pie Bars

6 c. all-purpose flour 1 1/2 c. sugar 1 t. salt 2 c. cold butter (no substitutes) Filling 8 eggs 3 c. sugar 3 c. corn syrup 1/2 c. butter, m...

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Quick n' Tasty Turkey or Ham Wraps

I've been making these for lunches for several years. I love the quickness, ease, and versatility of these wraps. I also love that the...

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