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English Muffins Turned Into French Toast

Let me assure you, using whole wheat English muffins in place of regular French bread to make French toast is perfectly delicious!
You know how those mornings go. You want to eat a particular breakfast, but you don’t have all the exact ingredients. Well, I wanted French toast and only had day old whole [...]



20May2008 | Jill | 3 comments | More
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Stonyfield Farm E-Coupons

I just came across this site between posting recipes. Stonyfield Farm organic dairy products has a very nice e-coupons page loaded with good coupons. I’m a big fan of their Fat Free French Vanilla Yogurt.
All you have to do is submit your email address and a whole page of coupons shows up. [...]



20May2008 | Jill | Leave your comments | More
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Awesome Fruit Salad

This AWESOME fruit salad is PERFECT on a hot day! It’s really hard to stop eating it.
I threw this together to serve on the side of my experimental breakfast, whole wheat English muffins turned into French toast. (I’ll tell you about them in the next post.)
There’s just the right amount of sweet, juicy fruits and [...]



20May2008 | Jill | 5 comments | More
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I Have THE Best Neighbors

Don’t these fresh picked onions look beautiful to you? They do to me.
I have THE BEST neighbors that anyone could ever ask for. Do you recall me writing about Randy who loves to garden? Randy is a hard working auto mechanic who loves to garden. He keeps up a large garden plot [...]



20May2008 | Jill | 2 comments | More
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Maggie’s Munchables

Real quick. I wanted to show off our Maggie. She’s becoming quite a serious cook in the kitchen. And she’s picking up on Mommy photographing all the food.
She asked me to take a picture of her snack creation. (Folks, I DID NOT ask her to pose. I said “I’m ready”, [...]



20May2008 | Jill | 8 comments | More
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Slow Cooked Chicken with Carrots and Peas

This delicious and simple chicken dinner comes from my new friend, Sheri Bond. I asked all the good folks, who subscribe to Simple Daily Recipes newsletter, for simple crock pot or slow cooker, ideas that would help me out over my busy weekend.
I had a yard sale on Saturday and I KNEW after a [...]



20May2008 | Jill | 4 comments | More
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Quick Cooling Method For Bar Desserts And Brownies

A sure fire easy way to remove bars from a hot pan for a quicker cooling time:
1. Spritz bottom of pan with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Measure out enough wax paper to line the pan PLUS hang out over two sides.
3. Spray the wax paper and exposed pan sides with nonstick cooking spray.
You’re ready to [...]



14May2008 | Jill | Leave your comments | More
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Cinnamon Apple Bars

These cinnamon apple bars will go well with coffee, hot tea…I see baking them for the next ladies luncheon or for my diet minded friends. They’re moist, cakey, and two is about all you want. They’re not rich or overly sweet. They have a simple, cinnamon apple flavor that makes for a [...]



14May2008 | Jill | 7 comments | More
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Blue Magnolia Bread Pudding Mix

I wasn’t a bread pudding fan until I ate Blue Magnolia’s Cinnamon Bread Pudding. Oh mercy, was it GOOD!
I was over shopping in my favorite little town of Winnsboro, Texas. Winnsboro is such a cool little place with great live music, awesome restaurants and fun shopping. Oh, and the spa! (pause for [...]



13May2008 | Jill | 4 comments | More
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Simple Spicy Salsa

Every Texan, I believe, ALWAYS keeps a jar of salsa in their frig. It’s as much a highly valued pantry staple as flour or sugar. Oh sure, there’s those that like to make their own from scratch. But I’ll bet ya, they store a back up jar in the back of the [...]



12May2008 | Jill | 3 comments | More
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Banana Splits

A little bit of this, a little bit of that…who’s need to go ‘buy’ a banana split when you probably already have all the ingredients you need at home ?!
HERE’S ALL IT TAKES

good vanilla ice cream
ripe banana
strawberry preserves
chocolate syrup
pecans, broken into small pieces
coconut
whipped cream (leftover from the Strawberry dessert recipe)
handful of M&Ms plain, broken into [...]



12May2008 | Jill | 1 comment | More
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Spinach and Ham Pizza

Start the week out easy and healthy with this quick and simple pizza recipe.
The kiddos still love a simple ham and cheese pizza. Thankfully, my favorite pizza crust brand comes with two crusts.
HERE’S ALL YOU NEED TONIGHT

1 package MamaMary’s Gourmet Pizza Crusts, Brick Oven Style, (there’s 2 crusts in one package)
extra virgin olive oil
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12May2008 | Jill | 1 comment | More
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