Delicious Crowd Pleasing Baked Beans

Baked beans are another Summer Time favorite for picnics and gatherings! They are also highly nutritious and provide necessary fiber we all need. I found a perfect recipe that is simple, delicious, and reasonably priced. I start with an 8″ by 8″ baking dish, and an oven preheated to 350* F (176 Celsius). Ingredients: Instructions …

Delicious Smoked Salmon Appetizers on Toasted Cocktail Squares

These are delicious and so easy to prepare! We have them on the weekends with a salad. They are simple, healthy, and perfect for lazy weekend eats, or appetizers!   Ingredients: Instructions Allow 30 minutes or so for cream to soften, or purchase already softened cream cheese in a tub.

Perfectly Delicious Cornbread Dressing

I love cornbread dressing! Even though it is called cornbread dressing my recipe is actually prepared with half cornbread and half regular bread.  It is also very easy to prepare. However, it tastes even better with giblet gravy poured over the top, which is also easy to prepare. These two dishes help create the fond …

Delicious Apple Crisp with Crust.

We love Apple Crisp!! We especially love it in the fall. We have a family tradition of driving to the Apple orchards in Illinois to pick apples right off the trees. The kids love it and, the crisp made from fresh apples is delicious. I love crust on the bottom. It is so gooey and …

Healthy Nutritious Southern Fried Cabbage

Recently I started having fried cabbage for dinner after learning of its health benefits. For years I had avoided preparing it thinking it was too complicated. Boy was I wrong! It wasn’t only crazy easy, but so delicious! My husband Dale even enjoyed it, and now asks for it! And just to let you know, …

Let’s make our own chicken broth!!

This past week with conditions outside being cloudy and cold, I decided to try something new and make my own chicken broth. How amazingly simple, and healthy! First I checked out a recipe on America’s Test Kitchen. Then I filled a dutch oven with 1 1/2 quarts of water, two tablespoons of salt, two bayleaves, …