Wow! I can’t remember the last time we had 2 snows
just within days of each other.
My hubby and girls are out walking in it right now.
It’s just too cold for me.
I read where it’s supposed to be windy and
cold tomorrow.
Yuck. I dread it, but I’m trying to enjoy
the snow while it’s here.
Then bring on the SPRING!
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Pictures from our last snow
My daughter pulling my baby nephew on the sled.
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Sledding down the hill is so much fun!
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But, I’m ready for this
WARM weather, SUN, and WATER!
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If you’re planning a Super Bowl Party, here’s some great recipes to get you started.
Whether it’s burgers, wings, chips and dip, cake, brownies…lots of great recipes can be found online.
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Below are some of my favorites places:
About’s Super Bowl recipes and Party Tips
Taste of Home Super Bowl Recipes
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No matter what you make, enjoy the game, family and friends and may the best team win!!!
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I went in search of an easy applesauce cake or bread recipe.
I’m all about easy and quick recipes.
I like to know there’s something yummy
baking in the oven
while I’m surfing the web or working
on my ever-growing
pile of laundry,
but I don’t want to spend a lot of time
on a recipe with tons of ingredients
that I probably
don’t have anyway.
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Yesterday the girls and my hubby went sledding (again!)
and so I decided to use
up some of
the applesauce I’d been blessed with.
I thought it’d be nice to
come home to a warm house
smelling like sugar and cinnamon.
I found an easy recipe here
and tweaked it
according to my preferences.
The result was wonderful!
(That’s right – no eggs!)
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Quick. Simple. Easy.
Here’s my tweaked version. Make it soon!
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
pecan pieces, optional
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Preheat oven to 350º. Grease and flour a 9 inch square baking dish. In a medium bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Dissolve baking soda into applesauce and mix into creamed butter. Add flour mixture. Mix until smooth.
Pour batter into prepared dish. Sprinkle pecan pieces over cake batter. Bake at 350º for 30 -40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean.
Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
1 T milk
2 T melted butter
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Mix together and drizzle over slightly cooled cake.
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Posted in Desserts, Party Treats, Recipes, Snacks and Appetizers | Tagged apple, applesauce, butter, cake, cinnamon, pecan, snack | 2 Comments »
Kinda tastes like Homemade Ice Cream, which I love.
Snow Cream
1 can evaporated or Pet Milk
1 can condensed Milk
1 Tbsp vanilla flavoring
3/4 cups sugar
Stir all this together real well and then start adding snow until the mixture gets thicker. My daughter went out twice for snow until we got it the way we wanted it. I just told her to make sure it was CLEAN snow. (lol) It was.
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Boy, oh boy, is it ever! We have about 5″ and are expecting more tonight.
Work even closed early, which is very unusual. The banks closed at noon. But that didn’t stop people from getting out.
We went sledding at 7:00 pm! Then came home to a big crock pot of Homemade Chili to warm our cold and weary bodies.
If it’s snowing where you are, have fun, stay warm and be careful!
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Giving the computer a break for a while, the girls and I decided to drag out
some board games.
Did we ever have fun playing Racko and then Sorry!
We had so much fun, we decided to make at least one night a week
a Game Night.
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Of course, Game Night calls for having some snacks.
I knew I had some baking ingredients
so I went on a search for the
easiest oatmeal cookie recipe I could find.
This one fits the bill!
Easy Oatmeal Cookies
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 Cup self rising flour
1 egg
2 Cups Quick Cooking oatmeal
Combine ingredients in large bowl or your Kitchenaid mixer. Mix well. Make small balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet
Dip the bottom of a drinking glass or a cookie press in sugar and use to flatten cookies. Bake at 350º 10 – 12 minutes. They won’t darken up a lot, but they’ll be delicious!
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She’s having a neat giveaway! Be sure and stop by her place this week.
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I am not a fan of English Peas at all, but if I were, I would
choose to eat them
this way.
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When I heard that a sick elderly woman that I go
to church with was wanting Chicken and Dumplings, I whipped up a HUGE
pot. Enough for my family and then several servings for her.
I wanted to take her a full meal and in my cabinet was a can
of Sweet Peas. I hated to just take plain peas…I wanted to dress them
up a little. So I made this Simple and Easy Sweet Pea Salad. She loved it!
Along with the Chicken and Dumplings and
Sweet Pea Salad,
I made her a snack size
Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.
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You know it just feels good to do something for somebody
that’s unable to do for themselves.
What a treat! for us both.
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