A Crafting We Will Go!!

This is so cool, and not hard to make to hang on a kitchen wall its old recipes and other things from the kitchen.From Just Something I Made

Happy Saturday~Today is National Tater Day!

 Today is National Tater Day!!!

Fix they any way you like Try Baked Twice recipe over at

DaBookLady's Favorite Recipes

Tater Tots are a favorite with the kiddos and adults! 

Try a casserole version too...

I love the Sweet potato Fries that some restaurants serve a great alternative to

the standard French Fries order!

Or make a healthy baked potato!

Any way you make it have some today for the National Tater Day celebration!!!

Happy Saturday

Cabin Fun and Great Recipes

I love easy cooking and making Pasties whether it be for a dessert with fruit or pumpkin or for a dinner meal they can be easy and tasty and very filling....on my "DaBookLady's Recipe Blog "I have several recipes for these scrumptious little goodies!!!

We went to the cabin over Memorial Day weekend and Bob worked on the garage/shed and put on new doors...he did a terrific job! :)

The walkway we had put in last fall really looks great now that the grass has grown around it...

And Chloee had a ball there romping around and climbing on everything...

Foxy just laid around with her "ho hum" looks.... :)

Try out a New Recipe Yummy!!!

                   Almond Surprise Cupcakes!

This I found over on "Happier than a Pig in Mud" blog and it looks so scrumpious I had to share with you...where I also learned about a wonderful gadget that I bought called a cupcake corer Now this little tool pushes the cupcake right out and leaves a hole just big enough to fill with your favorite filling!! Yummy...and who doesn't love cupcakes??

Cherries!!!

 This recipe is from Food.com.  I love almond so this has to be the greatest taste .........

Almond Cupcakes


3/4 C butter, room temp
1 1/2 C sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 tsp almond extract
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 C flour
1 1/4 C milk
-Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
-Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and extract. Add the rest and beat till smooth.
-Fill cupcake liners 2/3 full, this makes approximately 24 cupcakes.
-Bake approximately 20 minutes or until the top is golden brown and springs back when touched.
-Cool completely.
-Then I used my corer, and spooned cherry pie filling into the centers of the cupcakes, two cherries fit in each cupcake!
-Frost as desired.

                       

 

 

Thanks for visiting

Saturday Putting up the Tree Day

Thanks giving is over and I hope everyone had a wonderful day. I sure did the kiddos where over, but I made the mistake of letting them play in my office and I am still trying to find some of my things... Kids....they love to get into things, and g-ma sure has a lot to get into!!!! lol...

I am trying to put up our tree but it is a 3 day job since I have so many decorations, and then the tree decded to not light up all over. :( Remember when all tree lights were on strings, now a days that is unheard of. Well it looks like we will have both this year since half of the lights do not want to work????

One thing that was so cute this year with my g-kis on Thanksgiving, back to my original talk on this post, I am skipping around here, was that my older -daughter made up these turkey placemats for everyone. She drew handprint turkeys on construction paper and then made a little joke on each one with the answer on the side. So everyone had to read theirs. As you can see my son is reading his...they were really cute jokes like..."why can't leopards hide?" because they are always spotted...lol....and "What kind of bottle cries?" a wine bottle...lol....they were cute and everyone enjoyed reading theirs aloud...hurray for Amanda... As you see she and the little one are funning with g-pa.... :) Family is where it is all at!!!!

I tried some new great recipes... one was Sweet potato bake and the other wa a broccoli bake and the other was a baked pumpkin!!! All 3 were winners...

I even made a pie pumpkin filled with dressing it was yummy!!!

adding a teapot to the table for when we have pie

getting the bird ready at 7:30am

into the oven

some of the spices I used on my turkey

cooking the broccoli for the new recipe it was really good made with italian cheese and bread crumb topping

made a new recipe with walnuts for my sweet potato bake

added a pretty napkinand turkey napkin ring

I set the table with turkey decor and candles

"A good memory is one that can remember

the day’s blessings and forget the day’s troubles."

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set

 of circumstances but rather a person with a

certain set of attitudes."  

 Hugh Downs