Fun Recipes for the 4th
While we won’t we heading out to take part in any firework shows this year, we thought we could still find a way to enjoy the 4th. We’ll be hanging out at home, grilling in…
View post- June 30, 2020
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Great Grilling Recipes to Get You Outside This Summer
Summer has historically meant wanting to spend as much time outside as possible in the nice weather, more so this year while we are all practicing social distancing to keep ourselves, our families and our…
View post- June 23, 2020
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Kid Baker Friendly Peanut-butter Bread Recipe
in JJ Cooks
Mixing it up in the bread department today… one of my favs to make as a kid, Peanut-butter bread. It’s a quick bread, not too sweet. Perfect for breakfast, toasted with jam of course.
View post- April 23, 2020
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Dark Chocolate Cream Pie Recipe
Rumor has it that this is the pie that won my stepmother over and convinced her marrying my dad would be a pretty good idea… 35+ years later, it seems to have worked its charm. I’ve adapted the recipe over time to something that can be created even on a weekday after a full day of working outside the home.
View post- April 21, 2020
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40 Fresh Frugal Recipes to Try this Spring
Well this Spring’s collection of recipes is certainly different from last year’s! Spring 2020 is not going to be a moment in history any of us are likely to forget. The world has taken a…
View post- March 31, 2020
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30 Yummy Comfy Fall #slowfood Recipes
“When the table is full, heavy with platters, wine glasses scattered, napkins twisted and crumpled, forks askew, dessert plates scattered with crumbs and icing, candles burning down low – it’s in those moments that I…
View post- October 26, 2019
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30 Fast Fresh Recipes for Spring
Ah, spring! The days are warmer and longer… and… filled with spring sports and yard work before it gets too hot, with the approaching end of semester finals, projects, performances and more! It’s hard not…
View post- April 10, 2019
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Honoring the Winter Solstice with the Most Beautiful Yule Log Cakes
The food is put away for the winter,the crops are set aside to feed us,the cattle are come down from their fields,and the sheep are in from the pasture.The land is cold, the sea is…
View post- December 12, 2018
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25 Days of Christmas Cookies
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! It’s my FAVORITE time of the year. Magic and sparkles and generosity and hope saturate the air. For me it’s like the crafter, baker, quilter Super Bowl!!…
View post- November 25, 2018
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30+ Fast, Fall Favorite Recipes for Families on the Go!
Well, we’re in the full swing of the school year and man is this year’s shaping up to be a doozy! My mother-in-law has warned me for years that the high school years are just…
View post- September 30, 2018
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AK’s Apple Butter Cookies
A rainy Saturday afternoon… a sugar crazed, bored teen… a house empty of applesauce… a cupboard full of apple butter… and thus a recipe is born. These are yummy, chewy, cinnamon spiced cookies that are super simple to make and sure to be a new fall favorite in your house.
View post- September 15, 2018
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31 Fast Healthy Family Friendly Back to School Recipes
Howdy All and welcome back to school! Here’s wishing us all an easy and effortless transition from the dogs days of summer to the frenzied pace of the school year. I was concerned about the…
View post- August 25, 2018
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instaDinner Recipe: Midnight Pasta
in JJ Cooks
I saw this recipe somewhere a while back (I can’t for the life of me remember exactly where…) it’s based on a recipe that chef’s make themselves when they get home at midnight… thus #midnightPasta….
View post- March 24, 2014
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Recipe: Veggie Heavy Turkey Chili – Large Batch Cooking
in JJ Cooks
With the school year kick-off right around the corner, I thought I would share a recipe I use A LOT during the year. It’s a large batch recipe I make on the weekend and use…
View post- August 19, 2013
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Super Simple Summer Squash Gnocchi Recipe
in JJ Cooks
I took with me on our epic Texas Road-Trip Vacation (and can’t remember which one it was, sorry…) I cooked this up this evening with what I could remember of the recipe and it turned…
View post- August 12, 2013
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Steak & Blue Cheese Salad with Blueberry Balsamic Vinaigrette
in JJ Cooks
Well this FAV! Salad of the Month post is brought to you by the letter “B”… I can’t remember what specific blog, magazine, cooking show, etc. this salad was inspired by. I was introduced to…
View post- April 9, 2013
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Link Love: Lemon Lavender Greek Yogurt Pound Cake
http://www.bakeyourday.net/lemon-lavender-greek-yogurt-pound-cake/ … Lavendar is calming, Lemon promotes joy… This would be a very loving, healing cake! Nina Matthews via Compfight
View post- March 4, 2013
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Impossibly Easy Cheeseburger Pie Recipe… Adaptation
in JJ Cooks
The Bisquick Impossibly Easy Recipe collection has been around for quite a while now… amazing the things Bisquick can turn into an impossibly easy pie. I don’t make them very often, but our oldest moved…
View post- February 27, 2013
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Shipwreck Recipe: Mac’n’Cheese
in JJ Cooks
Shipwreck cooking: That mad scramble at the end of the day to get dinner on the table for the family with the ingredients on hand. Its raining and cold and everybody went back to work…
View post- January 8, 2013
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Dark Chocolate Cherry Chip Cookie Link Love
In honor of this weeks Cherry Dark Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe… Cherry Link Love! Food: Chocolate Hazelnut Cherry Tart Cherry Fudge Cherry Clafoutis Fun: Rainbow Cherry Jiggler Jello Shots Cherry Cordial M&M’s Cherry Pie Nail…
View post- January 26, 2012
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Dark Chocolate Cherry Chip Cookie Recipe
I got the idea for this cookie recipe from a Cookie Swap cook-book my cousin gifted to me. I was always melting the butter in an attempt to soften it making cookies as a kid….
View post- January 23, 2012
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Butterscotch Scottie Cookie Link Love
In honor of this week’s Cookie Project Butterscotch Chip Cookie Recipe… Butterscotch Link Love! Just a few things I found this week inspired by the Scotties I posted on Monday: Food: Butterscotch Lollipop Butterscotch Fondue…
View post- January 19, 2012
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Scotties Cookie Recipe: Year of the Cookie Kick-Off
I actually wanted to kick off the Year of The Cookie Project in the first week of January… and then I hit a snag. Only a mental one… but one that made me pause and…
View post- January 16, 2012
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Light Cookbook Review for Mouth Watering Monday
in JJ Cooks
I know, I know… Mouth Watering Mondays are generally recipes but after a passionate and inspiring convo this weekend with some really good friends about changing food and exercise habits not for the short term…
View post- January 9, 2012
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Cookie Project – List of Possible Cookie Recipes
I Heart Cookies! There are soooo many cookie recipes to choose from… which ones (or 52) to pick? This is the list of possibilities and I will update with links to recipes that make the…
View post- January 5, 2012
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