Proofing Hot Cross Buns in the Instant Pot

We are in the season of Lent right now, only 3 weeks until Easter and there are so many Easter recipes popping up on my Facebook feed. Easter Candy, Easter Cookies, Easter bread, Hot Cross Buns…wait a minute, I think I want to try making these. I enjoy making bread and often use my bread…

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Shrimp & Mushroom Scampi

Lately, I’ve been trying some new recipes, food that we enjoy when we eat out, but some that I’ve never made before. Beef Pot Pie was one I recently made. I’ve been cooking since I was 9 years old (with my mom’s supervision) and I can’t believe I never made pot pie before. It’s become…

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Instant Pot Stuffed Cabbage Rolls

It’s been a while since I made cabbage rolls since the price of cabbage has been sky high.  It was $1.45 a pound at one of our local stores last week.  I hadn’t heard of why there was such a price hike, but I am noticing the prices are coming back down and more reasonable.…

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Grandma’s Meatball Vegetable Soup

I thought maybe the Groundhog was right and we were going to have an early Spring when temperatures reached into the 60’s last week, but we got about 8″ of snow over the past 2 days, along with some high winds and ice. We didn’t even bother snow blowing the driveway yesterday, but it was…

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Homemade Cherry Crunch

Hello February!!!  It’s snowing here today as we just experienced some of the coldest weather in decades!! We had a low of -8 F with windchill of -24 F, but that was nothing compared to the -60 windchill in some of our Northern states. Since I’m kind of snowed in today and it’s Friday, thought…

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Grow Old with Me

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.  Can you believe the first week of the new year is already under our belt?  I felt bored yesterday, so I decided to go out shopping to see if I could find any bargains..Christmas was 75% off in some places, but I really don’t need…

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This Is Our Happy Place

Happy New Year Everyone!!  As we enter into a new year, just remember that you have 365 blank pages to write a book, make it a good one. I just want to share a quick project with all of you.  The saying, “This Is Our Happy Place” has special meaning for me.  When my husband…

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Instant Pot Christmas Ham

A quick visit here to post my recipe for an Instant Pot Christmas Ham.  I bought a half a shank ham…only 69 cents a pound with a $25 grocery purchase, so I figured I would try making it in the Instant Pot.  If it failed, then I still have time to run to the store…

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Merry Christmas Eve House Tour

Here we are at Christmas Eve already…the decorating has been done since Thanksgiving. Last week I baked all my cookies in one day! Our youngest son and wife came over the weekend, so we had our Christmas with them.  Our oldest son and family sent our presents from Texas and we opened those too. I…

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Faux Primitive Old Fashioned Peppermint Sticks

A couple months ago, I started making mesh wreaths.  Something I always wanted to try doing and after watching several YouTube videos I decided to give it a try.  One video I was intrigued with was the Dollar Store Mesh Wreath, being the “frugal” person that I am, if I’m going to screw up making…

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