Granola

Today I made Granola from my favorite cookbook: Mega Cooking by Jill Bond. Here is the recipe for you. 2x 4x Ingredients 2 4 9×13 pans 12 24 Servings 1 cup 2 cups Cooking oil 1 cup 2 cups Honey 12 oz can 2- 12oz cans Concentrated frozen juice, thawed 10 cups (2 lbs) 20 cups [...]

New Year Vegetable Soup

Wednesday is Crock Pot Night 1 cup baby carrots, chopped 3 medium potatoes, peeled and sliced 1 medium onion, peeled and sliced 1/2 head of green cabbage, sliced 2 zucchini, sliced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 can black-eye peas 1 Tbsp olive oil 1/4 tsp dried thyme 1/4 tsp dried basil 1 tsp dried parsley 1/2 tsp [...]

Party Menu

Menu Plan Monday On Saturday Night I hosted the Christmas gathering for my daughter’s Sunday School small group leaders. 18 college students and young adults were here for a gift exchange, encouragement, and appetizers. Here are the recipes that I served. Tortilla Soup Bring this tangy restaurant favorite to your dinner table in minutes. Great served [...]

Thanksgiving Blessing

May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have never a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! Happy Thanksgiving and Blessings to all. Thanks for reading.

Freeze some French Toast

Today I made some French Toast for breakfast and used a whole loaf of bread so that I could freeze some for future fast breakfasts. Here’s how I did it. Cook the french toast on the stove on the griddle. Let it cool on a plate while you finish cooking the whole loaf of bread. [...]

Meatballs Make a Bunch

As you’ll learn I love to make multiple batches of a single recipe, so that next time I want to cook that meal, I have less prep time. I’ve also found that it doesn’t take much more time to make five pounds of meatballs as it does one pound. Why do I make five pounds? [...]

Pizza Crust

Many people have Pizza and a movie night on Friday nights and we hope to continue this as our children get older. Pizza for the family from the delivery joints is usually $22-$25 by the time they add delivery charge and you tip the guy at least the price of a gallon of gas. That is $1,300 [...]

My Gallon of Spaghetti Sauce

This is my first “Works for Me Wednesday” entry. My Gallon of Spaghetti Sauce adapted from Mega Cooking page 357 Use your large dutch oven to combine 2 15-ounce cans tomato sauce 1 15-ounce can crushed tomatoes 5 6-oz cans tomato paste 10 Tbsp HG Spaghetti Seasoning 5 Tbsp dried oregano 1 1/4 cup chopped [...]