We love breakfast food around here. Biscuits are a particular favorite. We love having them with butter and jam, or honey butter, or cheese sauce and strawberry jam, or sausage gravy, or even dipped in butter and cinnamon sugar before cooking. As you can see biscuits are extremely versatile. Here’s our favorite, tried and true […]

When I was little my family lived in Miami, Florida for five years. We learned to love mangoes and key lime pie. Every Thanksgiving since then it is mandatory that we have a key lime pie to indulge ourselves when dessert time comes. It must be made with real KEY LIME juice or it’s just […]

Growing up my husband’s family called these puffed oven pancakes “Germans.” They’re also known as hootenanny. We usually eat them with butter and syrup but yesterday we had apple-raisin sauce minus the raisins. The kids don’t like raisins. Hootenanny 4 tablespoons butter6eggs1 cup milk1 cup flour1/2 tsp. salt Place butter in a 9×13 cake pan. […]

One of the surest signs that the holidays are really here is the presence of eggnog in the dairy aisle at the grocery store. We literally drink gallons and gallons before its gone for another year. This past week we decided to add it to the egg mixture for our french toast. It was heavenly! […]

My Guelita is a fabulous cook. She is also notorious for her giving nature. Anyone who stops to visit goes home laden with food. I have fond memories of visiting as a child “helping” Guelito roll the tortilla dough into balls while Guelita rolled them flat and cooked them on a huge griddle. I think […]

On a cold fall day there’s nothing like having a steaming bowl of hearty stew that has slowly cooked all day long. This recipe easily serves eight to ten people so if your family is small invite some friends over! Skier’s Stew 2 1/2 pounds beef cubes, cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces8 medium potatoes […]

My grandfather, Avi, was from Barcelona, Spain. One of the things he loved to do was cook authentic Spanish dishes for friends and family. When I was getting ready to go to college he invited me over to his house for a cooking lesson. Avi wanted to make sure I learned the proper way to […]

This recipe comes from my sister-in-law’s mother. Don’t let the picture fool you. It makes the best dinner rolls and sweet rolls. The recipe is HUGE so you can cut it in half if you don’t want to make so many rolls. I like to make half the dough into dinner rolls and the other […]

We love bread at our house. All types, all flavors. This french bread recipe is easy and produces three loaves of yummy french bread. I call it Not-So-French French Bread because the recipe doesn’t require the usual overnight rising time that true french bread calls for. As a result this bread is less yeasty tasting […]

Mr. Ferrero Rocher has a fondness for citrus flavored desserts. This is one of his favorites. Lemon Pudding Dessert 1 cup cold butter 2 cups flour1 pkg. cream cheese, softened 1 cup powdered sugar 1 8oz. carton cool whip 3 cups cold milk 2 pkg. lemon pudding mix Cut butter into flour until crumbly. Press […]

My mom makes these almost every time we visit. They are fast, easy, and oh so yummy. Scones 1 pkg yeast (1 TBSP) dissolved in 1 cup warm water1 TBSP. butter1 TBSP Sugar1 tsp. baking powder1 1/2 tsp. salt1 1/4 cups milk4 – 4 1/2 cups flour Scald milk. Melt butter in milk. In a […]

This is similar to a taco salad but with a different taste to it. The girls first had this a few weeks ago when they went to Fallon and stayed with Grandma while Mr. Ferrero Rocher and I spent the day in Reno. They raved about it and we’ve had it two more times since […]