Cooking Sides

Antipasto Salad

Tired of potato salad at every barbeque?  This super yummy macaroni salad gets its lighter flavor from the olive oil and lemon dressing.  You can customize and adapt as needed to fit your family’s tastes. Antipasto Salad (adapted from a recipe in the 1997 Taste of Home Annual Recipes Cookbook, pg. 28) Stir together 1-2… Read More Antipasto Salad

Cooking Breakfast, Cooking Sides

Grandma’s Easy Biscuits

Tried and True – The Original is the Best After numerous fails with different biscuit recipes, I went back to my original favorite biscuit recipe with one change that has made all the difference.  I have finally learned to pat out the dough to the right thickness.  All this time I have been fiddling around… Read More Grandma’s Easy Biscuits

Cooking Breakfast

Banana and Blueberry Muffins, who knew?

  He-Man had been requesting some banana muffins for breakfast for over a week, so I finally made him some.  Super easy recipe… 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup mashed bananas (I just use 2 for this recipe unless they are super small.  I freeze over-ripe ones and just pull them out the night before –… Read More Banana and Blueberry Muffins, who knew?