How To Make Valentine Dipped Peanut Butter Ritz Crackers Every Christmas, we make Ritz cracker cookies. You know, the ones filled with peanut butter and covered in chocolate? And every year, we say if we could only have one kind of cookie, this would be the one. Nabisco introduced Ritz […]
Author: Betty Streff
How To Keep Strawberries Fresh Up To 2 X Longer
0 commentsA Money-Saving Tip That’s Easy To Do Strawberries are expensive, especially in the off-season. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to keep them fresh longer? It’s so frustrating and disappointing to open that clamshell in the refrigerator after a couple of days and see sad-looking, wilty berries […]
Slow Cooker Mirepoix Is A Wonderful Time Saver
0 commentsLet Your Slow Cooker Work All The Magic While You Sleep Mirepoix is a French cooking term (say it meer/pwah) that instantly sounds arrogant and difficult, but it isn’t. What it can be is time-consuming, like caramelized onions, for example. Today’s world is fast and furious, so we often turn […]
How To Make A Great Chewy Loaf Of Beer Bread
2 commentsMake This Tasty Bread With As Little As Four Ingredients You can make beer bread with nothing more than self-rising flour, sugar, and beer. There’s no yeast, no kneading, and no rise time. It’s easy! It’s quick! You can make it using a bowl and a spoon and enjoy it […]
Smothered Hamburger Steak Is Great Comfort Food
0 commentsPerfectly Seasoned Hamburger Patties Baked In A Delicious Gravy Smothered hamburger steak is a great dish for the whole family. Sometimes recipes like this are called “poor man’s steak,” but it is so tasty, tender, and packed with flavor that the name doesn’t seem to fit. These smothered hamburger steaks […]
Homemade Brown Sugar Is Easy With 2 Ingredients
2 commentsHere’s A Great Tip That Can Save You A Trip To The Store Would you be surprised to know you can make homemade brown sugar? We have all experienced that frustrating moment when we are well into a recipe and realize we are out of a key ingredient. Who wants […]
World’s Best Creamy Cabbage Soup With Ham
0 commentsThis Yummy Soup Tastes Like Love In A Bowl I enjoy winter. There, I said it. Maybe it’s my Nordic roots, but I feel peaceful on a cold night when I have a pot of creamy cabbage soup simmering on the stove and some crusty bread to sop it up. […]
Shepherds Pie is The Ultimate Comfort Food
0 commentsHow To Make Tasty Homemade Beef Shepherds Pie It’s January, and we have quite a bit of snow. When I threw out the question to my Facebook friends, “what comfort food are you craving?” shepherds pie was one of the top responses. I couldn’t agree more with that choice! A […]
Make Glazed Iowa Ham Balls The Best Farm Food Ever
0 commentsHam Balls Are A Classic Down Home Dish And You Will Need Napkins My husband’s mom could whip out a pan of delicious ham balls the whole family loved. Grammy made no secret that she did not like to cook, but the woman had perfected a few dishes she could […]
Snickerdoodle Bread Has Ribbons of Cinnamon Sugar
0 commentsBake Snickerdoodle Bread & Make Cinnamon Lovers Smile You should bake some snickerdoodle bread if for no other reason than it is called BREAD. This is a clever way to have snickerdoodles for breakfast because we should not eat cookies for our morning meal. It is almost like a cake […]