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I’m a connoisseur of brownies and absolutely love the texture of this simple and relatively basic brownie creation that uses semisweet chocolate chips plus cocoa powder to create chocolatey brownie goodness with its signature shiny top.  I also like that this version makes a small, just-right sized batch in an 8-inch square pan. Semisweet Brownies […]

Last Sunday we invited two sweet young women over for dinner and one was leaving Texas to return home to Utah. I asked what her favorite dessert was and she said German chocolate cake, so I baked it for her, experimenting with a devils food cake recipe for the first time.  I plan to share […]

This is an easy way to serve eggs quickly for breakfast, presented with a little love.  It doesn’t get much easier than mixing a few ingredients into a bowl, pouring them into a muffin tray, then baking them while you finish getting ready for the day or chilling on the sofa while they bake.  Here’s […]

While making tuna salad today for lunch, I had an epiphany to add diced green chiles and now will probably always make it this way.  It’s so good.  Here’s what I did to prepare this five-minute appetizer.  I already had hard boiled eggs, peeled and stored in the refrigerator, so that helped. Also, this is […]

Often referred to as 7-layer dip, this popular, casual appetizer is always a party favorite and easy to assemble with no cooking is required–unless you make your own refried beans.  That’s usually the most tasty way, but I go for convenience and use canned refried beans that come in many varieties.  Take your pick.  I […]

Homemade vanilla pudding paired with Nilla Wafers and banana slices has been around as long as I can remember.  It screams down-home goodness and when you add individual mason jars to the mix, you’re bound to get irresistible reviews of portable, bottled up happiness.  July 2017 has been the month of all things in a […]

There’s no shame as a baker in using boxed brownies, in my opinion.  I love the taste and have baked plenty of batches and made every kind of variation with the mixes.  In fact, when I bake brownies from scratch, I usually compare them to boxed mixes when deciding how well I like the recipe. […]

Country Chicken Casserole is something I have been making for many years, but the version I originally used is made with canned Campbell’s soup. While I like the convenience of pouring a can of cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup into recipes to put a meal together fast, I prefer to use ingredients that […]

We love bananas, but not ripe ones. I end up baking banana bread often when the banana stash is no longer edible as is. That’s when bananas are perfect for banana bread, and like a butterfly, they make their transformation from mushy and mealy to county fair prize-winning banana bread. I  have determined that this […]

My first job besides babysitting, barely out of elementary school, was in a cherry orchard picking fruit from trees and filling woven baskets. We were paid by how many cherries we picked–it took a lot of work to fill one basket. There were several young kids like me who worked there as well as professional […]