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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 I sat down and shelled 2 cups of pecans. These pecans are local to me in Southeastern Oklahoma, if you remember I talked about buying these in my recent post about our first Fall in Oklahoma. I bought these pecans off of a woman on Facebook Marketplace. She wanted to meet me [...]
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. [...]
Today the family and I did some really cool activities. One of which was going down and exploring the back of our property. We moved onto 5 acres just about 6 months ago and the last 6 months we have learned how to take care of the front two acres, but the back three [...]
McAlester, Oklahoma is what my husband and I refer to as a little big town. You can't quite call it a small town, but its not big enough for a local Joann's Fabrics or Michaels. Fortunately, it is small enough and yet big enough for there to still be a need for a local quilt [...]