It’s Friday Story Time by Lia again and last week I told you I would share decorated Easter cake, my sugar overload cake! Since I didn’t have time to bake a cake before we went to Ma and Pop’s on Easter, Ma did the baking and it was all cooled when we get there. As soon as dinner was over I started my decorating! I made the same type of frosting as my other cake, a slice of melted cream cheese, some powdered sugar and milk. I mixed all the
Since starting my healthy eating back in 2018, my menu doesn’t include as many potatoes as it use to. A great substitute are my riced cauliflower meals. I can turn this into a meal, a quick lunch or just a snack since I tend to eat smaller meals. I make faux mashed potatoes from riced cauliflower and way back in 2016 I wrote a post on Faux Mashed Potatoes. They are delicious and healthy! I rice my own cauliflower and freeze the individual portions in ziplock bags, date them and
I use heavy whipping cream in many recipes especially in my omelets. The eggs come out so fluffy and delicious. I also have a pound cake recipe using it that is so delicious. I had about a cup of heavy cream leftover after baking and I didn’t want it to go to waste so I decided to try my hand at making butter. I added the whipping cream to my mixer and used the whisk attachment on high until the cream turned solid. The next step was to put the
Today’s Ultimate Blog Challenge topic is yummy dessert time so I had to go with this topic since Lia and I love to bake cookies, quick bread, cakes and even ice cream! We are getting ready for Lia’s Sunshine Bakery Alzheimer’s Fundraiser bake sale on April 22nd along with our community garage sale. So today is the perfect day to share recipes. I have so many “favorite” cookie recipes, I think mine and Lia’s also is our Italian drop cookies, of course they are covered with sprinkles. These are also
We’re already on week two of the Ultimate Blog Challenge! My first week I wrote about Challenges and for this week, I’ll be in the kitchen! I like to share me quick and easy meals that are also healthy. I will also share some others tips for in the kitchen. Last week I had a package of stew beef, approximately 1 1/2 pounds which cost $5.56. I usually flash fry the beef with peppers and onions and serve with baked potatoes but I wanted something different. We had a busy