Your Tray or Mine? Cookie Tray Recipe of the Day: Chocolate Thumbprints
ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 1, 2011 I first posted this recipe on my FB page on December 5, 2008!! It’s a cookie recipe my mom and I make every year, and if I had to pick a top favorite, this would be...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine: Recipe of the Day: Chocolate Buttersweets
These are my other top favorite cookie from our trays! ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 19, 2011 When I first began the Your Tray or Mine series of recipes earlier this month, I began with the Chocolate...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine Recipe of the Day: Brown Eyed Susans, a Family Favorite
ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 7, 2011 When I posted my first recipe last week for Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies, I mentioned that it was one of my top two favorite cookies on our trays each year (I’ll let...
View ArticleHappy St. Patty’s Day: Irish Soda Bread
ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 16, 2012: Everyone loves a good Irish Soda Bread with their St. Patrick’s Day meal! This one was passed along to me by my father-in-law last winter and it was wonderful. I can’t...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Don and Alexandra!
So what’s the best birthday gift *you* ever gave someone? ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 23, 2012 Today is a very special day. Today is Alexandra’s birthday. Today is also Don’s birthday. That makes me the...
View ArticleEaster Sweet Bread
This recipe makes three “small” loaves of sweet bread for Easter. It’s wonderful when you grill it! Originally posted April 4, 2012 This recipe is one that takes a while from start to finish- nine...
View ArticleHappy Birthday To Me and To You: Mom’s Boston Cream Pie two ways
Boston Cream Pie is my all-time favorite kind of birthday cake. ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 10, 2012 August 11 is my birthday! If I could choose any kind of birthday cake in the whole world, I’d choose...
View ArticleFun Friday: S’Mores Mug Cake
Everything tastes better in a mug! We have lots of mugs in our kitchen cabinets. Big mugs, little mugs, colored mugs, white mugs, kids’ mugs, teacher mugs, matched mugs, mismatched mugs and every kind...
View ArticlePumpkin Palooza Recipe of the Day: Cranberry Pie
My Thanksgiving Day Cranberry Pie Each year for Thanksgiving we go to my aunt and uncle’s for a huge family Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because of all the food with...
View ArticlePumpkin Palooza Recipe of the Day: Pumpkin Swirl Brownies
This new recipe got all thumbs up this weekend! ORIGINALLY POSTED NOVEMBER 13, 2011 This weekend I tried a new recipe that came across my virtual “desk” last week. The recipe was from Babble’s Family...
View ArticleA Your Tray or Mine Recipe and an Online Cookie Swap: Chocolate Buttersweets
These are my other top favorite cookie from our trays! This week I was invited to participate in such a fun activity: a digital cookie exchange! Now, you know how much I love cookies, and what a fun...
View ArticleChristmas Dessert: Mocha Roll and Christmas Cookies
All together now: all of the cookies made by my mom, me and both grandmas, all on one tray. ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 29, 2011 This week I’ve been posting in retrospect about our Christmas Dinner. To...
View ArticleHappy St. Patty’s Day: Irish Soda Bread
ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 16, 2012: Everyone loves a good Irish Soda Bread with their St. Patrick’s Day meal! This one was passed along to me by my father-in-law last winter and it was wonderful. I can’t...
View ArticleHappy St. Joseph’s Day!
Are you ready for some Zeppole? ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MARCH 19, 2012 Are you wearing your red today? I am! It’s March 19 and that means it’s one of my most favorite dessert holidays ever! Happy St....
View ArticleFun Friday: Nutella Crescents
The most-requested after school snack! TGIF! Happy Friday! This week seems to have flown by. The weather is nice and work, school and activities are keeping us busy. Summer will be here before we know...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine? Cookie Tray Recipe of the Day: “Krispie” Chocolate Chip...
The most recent time I made these, I used a mix of both chocolate Rice Krispies and the plain Rice Krispies. they were delicious! The following recipe is a newer recipe to my collection, not one that I...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine Bar Recipe of the Day: Double Delicious Bars
Hot out of the oven, this peanut butter-chocolate chip dessert is one of our favorites! ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED DECEMBER 18, 2011 This recipe incorporates peanut butter, so if you have allergies…please...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine: Old World Raspberry Bars
ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 11, 2011 In keeping with my promise to do one bar recipe each Sunday, here is today’s recipe. Here’s the original recipe that I work from when I make these! It’s funny to see...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine: Baking with the Grandmas…More Family Favorites
ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 14, 2011 I am very, very lucky and I know it. I still have two of my grandmothers living and although they are both now in their 90s, they are both healthy and they are both...
View ArticleYour Tray or Mine? Cookie Tray Recipe of the Day: Snickerdoodles
These are fast and easy cookies to make and one of my kids’ favorites. ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 12, 2011 Today’s recipe is a new addition to our cookie trays. It is not one that we did when I was...
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