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Jill is a Mom, wife, teacher, artist, creative genius, and writer. She works everyday on her blog at SimpleDailyRecipes.com. When she's not home schooling her kids or writing for her blog, Jill likes dancing to Brazilian Jazz while cooking up something good in the kitchen.
3 Ways to Eat Classico Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto
I’ll be completely honest with you. I haven’t been a fan of sun-dried tomatoes. I’m not even sure I’ve grown to the level of “fan”, yet. For years now, I’ve read restaurant menus carry on about sun-dried tomatoes in their dishes. And for years now, I haven’t met a sun-dried tomato dish I liked.
You already [...]
Oven Roasted Home Fries with Onions
Making oven roasted home fries with onions ROCKS! The other day, I just had a few Yukon Gold spuds and a purple onion to work with. It wasn’t my usual combination, but sometimes I just gotta work with what I have on hand, right? That’s usually when most of us make our best meals.
I was [...]
Crunchy Fried Shrimp Dinner
Living in East Texas, there’s plenty of All-You-Can-Eat Catfish joints. I believe it’s a state law to have one catfish restaurant in every East Texas town. However, the closest “seafood” restaurant is 40 minutes away and it’s Red Lobster…
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
Mix that with my newest food item [...]
Homemade Flour Tortillas
I’m gonna tell you a secret desire I can’t shake. It’s a big desire, no doubt expensive. But I can’t get it out of my mind. Ready?
I wish I had a tortilla machine. You know, one of those that you drop the ball of dough into and it comes out the other end completely HOT [...]
Chocolate-Oatmeal Cookies
For all of you that love the chewy corners from a batch of brownies, you’ll enjoy these cookies.
This recipe makes just over 2 dozen small cookies.
LET’S GET RIGHT TO IT
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
2 tablespoons milk
1 small egg
1 1/3 cups old fashioned oats
1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup baking cocoa
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 [...]
Garlic Potato Soup with Rosemary
When you need a little something creamy, soothing and filling and you don’t have a lot of get up and go to make it. THIS SOUP IS THE ONE and feeds two easily.
HERE’S ALL IT TAKES
1/3 cup finely chopped onion
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 (4 inch) sprig rosemary, whole on the [...]
Doug’s Over Easy Breakfast
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Today’s breakfast recipe is brought to you by Simple Daily Recipes reader, Old Doug.
Doug, thank you for this easy and fast breakfast that was fun to make.
ALL IT TAKES
1 piece of toast
1 egg
salt & pepper
Use a biscuit cutter to cut a two inch hole in the center of the toast. Get a small nonstick fry [...]
24Sep2008 | Jill | 3 comments | Continued
Hopkins County World Champion Stew Contest Video
To play the video, simply click on top of the player window.
Well folks, I survived the stew judging and I HAD A BLAST!
Saturday morning, Sulphur Springs was filled with smoke from all the campfires burning at the festival. I kid you not. I live 2 minutes from the festival grounds and our neighborhood looked like [...]
How I Make Dough During The Holidays
It all began back in 2005, when my son, Max, was in Kindergarten. I was totally jazzed about entering that stage in life when I would bake goodies for his class parties. Early on, I started sending Max to school with little baked treats to give to his teacher. Of course, Mrs. Foster and I [...]
23Sep2008 | Jill | 0 comments | Continued
Champion Cookie Truffles
Of all the sweet treats I take time to make, these cookie truffles are probably my most favorite recipe. They are sweet without being too rich. The chocolate coating has a snap, while the inside has a soft, smooth, creamy texture. It takes 5, count’em 5, ingredients to put them together. They’re also pretty and [...]
22Sep2008 | Jill | 9 comments | Continued
I could not disagree more with Oat's opinion on using oak. Oak is the worlds most common wood for ...
"O Christmas tree, O Christmas tree
how lovely are your artificially colored branches..." 
