A couple of weeks ago, I doubled the crust recipe when making our traditional Sunday night pizza. I wanted to see if we could make mini pizzas and freeze them. We finally tried them today for lunch, and they were quite good!
Homemade Pizza Dough
2 Tablespoons yeast
2 Cups warm water
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup oil
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We had a lot of cooking apples in our orchard this year, so I canned some apple pie filling. My brother-in-law loves apple pies, so this will make a nice Christmas gift for him. I used the recipe from the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning.
We like to have homemade pizza at our house every Sunday night. So, we make use of some of the extra tomatoes in the summer time and cook up some homemade pizza sauce to freeze.
I use the squeezo to get the tomato juice, then cook it up and freeze it into ice cube trays. [...]
I wanted to make and can enchilada sauce this year with our extra tomatoes, but I couldn’t find any recipe that sounded suitable. So, I decided to just can tomato sauce. It is much more versatile anyway. Now, I can make anything I want out of it.
Here’s how I made [...]
Every summer, I cook up our fresh tomatoes, peppers and onions into a delicious, versatile spaghetti sauce and freeze it for winter. It makes preparing spaghetti, lasagna, or any recipe calling for a jar of spaghetti sauce a snap. I also love it because I know how much better it is for us [...]
This is one of my favorite summertime recipes. Unfortunately, it is also the dessert that led us to discover our daughter has a peanut allergy.
1 package chocolate wafer cookies (crushed)
1 stick butter
3/4 cup peanut better
8 oz cream cheese
2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup milk
2 – 8 oz cartons cool whip
Melt butter and combine with crushed wafers. [...]
It was a rainy day here yesterday and we had a couple of very ripe bananas sitting around, so I decided to make banana cream pie. (My husband really likes banana cream pie.) I used the recipe out of my trusty Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook. I think it turned out pretty excellent. However, it [...]
We are studying the country of Turkey this month in our co-op. Along with a few other Turkish recipes, I made Turkish Delight for the kids to try. In The Chronicles of Narnia, Edmund eats Turkish Delight that was prepared by the White Witch. It was unlike any candy recipe I’ve ever made. It has [...]
This morning we made waffles with our new waffle maker. We got it free using Swag Bucks we earned while doing regular web searching. If you aren’t familiar with Swag Bucks, you simply use it like you would any search engine. Occasionally, you win Swag Bucks. I usually win several each day. When you accumulate [...]
These cupcakes are one of my favorites. They taste like chocolate chip cookies!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup loosely packed brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 cup plus 2 Tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Combine until creamy.
Spoon into paper lined muffin cups about half full. Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes.
Filling
1/2 cup brown [...]
