Moroccan Carrot Dip

I had a bag of baby carrots in the refrigerator that I wanted to use so I fished around on the internet looking for something interesting to do with them.   I remembered having a carrot dip at a friend’s house a couple of years ago, so I googled ‘carrot dip’ and came up with this.   [...]

Cinnamon Sugar-Dipped Blueberry Muffins

I made these blueberry muffins the other day and they’re delicious.   They also look really nice; the blueberries are distributed nicely through the muffins, and the sugar topping is very attractive.  The muffins themselves are not too sweet so the sugar topping is a nice addition.  I like the fact that they’re made without [...]

Joanna Pruess's Molasses Spice Cookies

Molasses spice cookies – doesn’t sound too appealing, does it?   I’m not a huge molasses fan, and if this recipe hadn’t been recommended to me, I never would have tried it.     I’m glad I did though because boy are these cookies delicious!   My niece Christina sent me the recipe as part of a [...]

Snickerdoodle Blondies

Three of our sons had publishing parties at school this week and they both asked me to make my traditional crumb cake.   Everyone loves it, especially the boys. Typically there isn’t any left when I bring one to school, but there were several pieces left from one class so we brought [...]

Snickerdoodles

I love cookies, and one of my favorite cookies is a snickerdoodle.    My friend Ken’s mom used to periodically send him a box of homemade snickerdoodles when we were in college, and I was always the first in line for one of them.    As much as I love them, I had never made [...]

Cinnamon Muffins

Truth be told, I think these muffins are pretty good, but my boys LOVE them!   They’ll eat them anytime, for breakfast, snack or dessert.   They taste like cinnamon buns, but not as heavy or as sweet.  I may make them another batch tomorrow morning!

The original recipe called for all white flour and double [...]

Cinnamon pancakes

My boys LOVE pancakes in the morning so I often make buttermilk pancakes. I make them with whole wheat flour so they’re slightly more healthy than standard pancakes. If you try this recipe and you’re not a whole wheat fan, try half white flour and half whole wheat, or if you [...]

Cinnamon and chocolate

I don’t know what made me do it, but a number of years ago I decided to dump some cinnamon into my chocolate chip cookie batter. And it was delicious. I’ve been doing it ever since. I don’t think I’ve made chocolate chip cookies without cinnamon in about 10 [...]

Sugar Spiced Nuts

So far I have posted three recipes and I’m noticing a trend here. They’re all sweet. I admit it, I do have a sweet tooth, as do the boys and my husband, but after this recipe I’m going to post something savory. I promise.

Across the street from our apartment, there’s [...]