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!

Recipe Index

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Bumble Bee Birthday Cake

My daughter wanted a bumble bee birthday party, complete with the bee hive cake. After spending a lot of time on line checking out ideas, he...

Friday, April 8, 2011

Ice Cream Tacos

Ice Cream Tacos??!! I know - it just doesn't sound very appetizing - What a weird combination... Although it doesn't sound great,...

Monday, March 28, 2011

Faux buffalo hot wings

I wish my wings had looked like this: They didn't. But, they tasted almost like it (except for the deep fried crunchy skin, and littl...

Monday, March 21, 2011

Heaven in a 11 x 15 or Chocolate Drop Cookie Bars or Chocolate Oatmeal Bars

I originally received this recipe from a friend of a friend... however, when I went to the blogpage to find the recipe again, it had myster...

Cinnamon Biscuit Fans

As a wedding present, someone gave us a Betty Crocker's 'Best of Baking' cookbook. At first, I was a little perturbed thinking ...

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Chicken Tortilla Soup 2

I try to make my weekly or monthly menu in advance - then each week I can just see what I'll need to shop for, and I shop accordingl...

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Frosting, Frosting, Frosting

I spent the day in the kitchen with my kids today. We watched several tutorials this morning before we got started and found some super cut...

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Banana Cream Pie

I found it! A really super amazing recipe for banana cream pie. My quest has now officially ended. It just disappears so quickly. We...

Hot Fudge Bars or Heaven in a 9 x 13

My mom used to make these when I was a kid. Then several years ago, my friend Liz introduced me to them again. Liz moved, and I couldn...

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Nutella Meringues

Last week I stumbled upon one of my friends who works at my kid's school. I often find her during her lunchbreak catching up on all of ...

Monday, January 24, 2011

Flaky Baking Powder Biscuits

I decided to make my family some baking powder biscuits for breakfast this morning. I did a quick internet search and looked over several d...

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Trout - Fish Boil

I'm feeling a little frustrated with my photo software right now - I apologize for the really little picture...not quite sure what is go...

Monday, January 3, 2011

7 Minute frosting without the double boiler

As a kid, I LOVED it when my mom frosted her cakes with 7 minute frosting...full of sweet marshmallowy goodness. Most recipes for this fr...

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Microwave Hard Candy

I found this recipe several years ago when I purchased some oil flavoring for candy making. This is SUCH an easy recipe. Three ingredients...

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Easy Fudge

As a kid, I was involved with a summer home economics entrepreneurial program. We made foods, and then tried to sell them. As we tried t...

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