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If you wait until your bananas are sufficiently over-ripe they will have enough sugar that you don’t have to add much at all and it makes for a much healthier bread.
You can make a double batch, cut up and freeze and it will stay fresh a very long time. Simply remove a piece from the freezer and microwave on high for 45 seconds to a minute and it will taste like it just came out of the oven.
This recipe is for pumpkin pie made from fresh pumpkin. I have not tried swapping out the pumpkin for the same volume of canned pumpkin. I typically use a Cheese or Galeux d’Eysines pumpkin. The former is a squat, grey colored pumpkin that looks like a cheese wheel and the latter like it was grown in Chernobyl and is grey covered in what can best be described as warts. The more ‘warts’ the sweeter they are. They are both delicious.→ Continue reading “Pumpkin Pie”
My wife made these cookies and they were, by far, the best snickerdoodle cookies I’ve every had. The original recipe can be found here.
Makes about 12 cupcakes.
Serves 8 to 10
This is for a 12×9 inch sheet pan cookie cake.
If you have a stand mixer this is much easier, but if all you have is a hand mixer that will work too.
This is a pie crust recipe from my Nanna (my Father’s mother). I heard that often she used seltzer water, or orange juice in place of the water in her recipe, but never milk. I have not tried either, as of yet, just water.
This is a pie crust recipe for a 9″ or 10″ pie crust pan, for both single and double crust pies.
If you are going to make two, two crust pies, don’t double the recipe, make → Continue reading “Homemade Pie Crust”
This recipe uses honey as the sweetener. You can substitute with sugar.
Melt the butter in a sauce pan on the stove over very low heat.
Mix all of the dry ingredients together. Then mix in the raisins and the chopped dates.
Mix the honey into the melted → Continue reading “Oatmeal Raisin and Date Cookies”