I don’t always make a dinner bread to go with our meal, but when I do I like to make a really good one. These herb biscuits are packed with flavor and so wonderful. You start with pre-made biscuit dough from the refrigerator and toss them in a yummy herby cheesy mixture to turn bland boring canned biscuits into an amazing little accompaniment to your meal. My friend Ericka posted the original recipe on her blog, but I have since made a few slight changes to the coating mixture and I bake mine up in a muffin tin to make individual portions instead of in the 9″ round pan. Either way, these biscuits are delicious! 1 roll refrigerated biscuit dough 1/4 c. butter, melted 4 tbsp. grated parmesan cheese 1 1/2 tsp. fresh minced garlic 1 tsp. dried parsley flakes 1 tsp. dried basil 1/2 tsp. dried oregano 1/2 tsp. dried dill weed 1) Separate biscuit dough and cut each round into quarters. (* FYI: I tried this once with homemade biscuit dough. It totally didn’t work as planned. After I chopped up the dough into pieces and started tossing them in the coating, they all smooshed back into...

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Back in January (yes,over six months ago from the date of this post, I forgot this was in my Drafts folder til just now)… I was in desperate need at a very late hour for a quick applesauce recipe. I wanted to serve it warm at a MOPS meeting at church early the following morning, so I needed to cook it in my crock pot overnight. I looked through several recipes and found that applesauce was very simple to make. So, as usual for me, I decided to wing it.  I had precisely 7 apples, and the ratios I was going off of for seasoning and cooking time were using 4 apples. In order to double those ratios I needed more fruit… Rather than running to the store for a single apple (silly!), I grabbed a can of cherries from my pantry. This turned out so so good, I was astonished! Never do I hit such a home run on the first try, especially when I wing it! 7 granny smith apples 1 can of tart cherries (not pie filling, just cherries) 1/4 cup water 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. nutmeg 1) Peel, core, and cut up your apples...

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I have always considered cinnamon to be a spice that you bake with, not for cooking. How wrong I was! Lately I’ve been experimenting with the taste that cinnamon brings to savory dishes. It is so different when not paired with sugar. It gives a nice warm flavor, and when paired with a little bit of heat it is wonderful. Here is one of the recipes I’ve made a few times now that my family really enjoyed. Since they weren’t used to the flavor of cinnamon in a savory dish, it had them all stumped… What is that flavor? When I told them what it was, they were as interested and excited as I was! 6 chicken breast halves 2 tsp. cinnamon 2 tsp. chili powder 1 tsp. garlic powder (or four cloves of fresh minced garlic) 1 tsp. cumin 1/2 tsp. salt 1) Combine the above ingredients together in a small bowl. Reserve to the side. 2) Warm up a little olive oil in a skillet, just enough to coat the bottom. 3) Arrange your chicken in the skillet, sprinkle about 1/2 tsp. of the seasoning mixture onto each side of each piece (1 tsp. total per piece...

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Our family loves us some bar-be-que. I usually have a bottle of sauce hanging out in the fridge, but there have been quite a few times when I thought I had some and found it either gone, naught but a drop left, or expired. So, instead of scrapping our meal plan, I figured out how to make it myself. One thing we are never ever ever out of is ketchup, so I started there and added various seasonings to taste. We prefer thick smokey sauce to the thin hot sauce. BBQ sauces run the gamut of flavors; if you tend to like it the way we do, give my recipe a try! 1 1/2 cups prepared ketchup 1 tbsp. minced fresh garlic (or 1 tsp. garlic powder) 1 tbsp. chili powder 1 tsp. ground ginger 1 tsp. ground mustard 2 tsp. liquid smoke 1/4 cup brown sugar (or less if you don’t want it quite so sweet) 1 tsp. olive or vegetable oil (or more if you like your sauce thinner) * (If you like a little more heat that the chili powder provides, try adding 1/4 – 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper.) There are two ways to do this,...

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