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What is your favorite sugar cookie recipe? Mine is the Mrs. Fields’ Sugar Cookies recipe. This is a fool proof recipe for me and I have made it countles times and they have all turned out just perfect. Do you want to know the secret to a perfect sugar cookie at Christmas? Don’t over bake [...]
The girls and I made these pretzel treats recently and they were so delicious as well as being one of my husband’s favorite treats we’ve made in a long time. It is sweet but that pretzel is the star, not an immense amount of sugar. We are totally making Christmas themed ones this year too, [...]
INGREDIENTS: 1/2 C Shortening 1/4 C Salted Butter - softened 1 C Brown Sugar - Packed 1/4 C Light Corn Syrup 1 Egg 1 TBS Vanilla Extract 2 C All Purpose Flour 3 TSP Ground Cinnamon 1 TSP Baking Soda 1/2 TSP Kosher Salt 1 1/2 C Chopped Pecans - Toasted DIRECTIONS: Preheat your oven [...]
The other day my husband asked me to make pecan bread with the pecans we got locally a couple weeks ago. Instead of just experimenting with my own bread recipes I jumped online and found this recipe for Pecan Bread from Justapinch.com and I thought it sounded interesting and different. I am all into different lately. [...]
Last week I posted about Chipotle Cubes and that seemed to have gone over really well. You guys seemed to have really liked that idea and I really want to say thank you for your support on that post! The reason I bring that up now is I was going through my recent photos tonight [...]
Ealier this week I made and posted a recipe for Chipotle Chicken Enchiladas. In this recipe I used 3 of the Chipotle peppers that were inside. I love Chipotle and I love this particular brand of Chipotle, which is Embasa. However, I always have leftovers and am not sure what to do with them because sometimes [...]
Ingredients: Chipotle Peppers: 3 out of 1 can Flour Tortillas 4 Chicken Breasts Chicken Stock - approximately 1 Cup. ( I use the chicken stock from the chicken I cook, this adds a lot of chipotle depth to the entire dish, but you can also use store bought chicken stock and precooked chicken. It's all [...]
I did a thing this past weekend. I made my first ever brioche! and not to brag... but it came out FANTASTIC. With all my mature hens laying eggs I have accumulated a stock pile of eggs. I have also been binge watching the last 2 seasons of Great British Bake Off so a [...]
Last week I was preparing to make my normal No Knead Crusty Rolls from Jenny Can Cook. I had doubled the recipe and had let the shaggy dough rise for 2 1/2 hours. During these 2 1/2 hours, dinner plans had changed from boring to Italian. My husband asked me if it would be possible [...]
Ingredients Oil, bacon fat, butter - your fats and oils are yours to choose… I used a combination of all 3 1 -2 Chopped Onions 2 cloves garlic, minced Fresh Spinach, chopped Package of Cream Cheese, cut into cubes for ease later 1/8 - 1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour Heavy Cream Milk Salt and [...]