Chocolate Ricotta Cookies and How to Make Homemade Ricotta

My neighbor, Vito has been supplying me with fresh, sweet goat milk! While my tries at making mozarrela cheese have been disappointing, to say the least, making fresh ricotta cheese has been. . . . Simple ~ Creamy ~ and Delicious!

Frozen Banana Treats

This is a fun kid-friendly treat for the kids to help you with . . . Perhaps this weekend?

Coat in your favorite toppings!

Blueberry Drop Biscuit Cobbler

My grandkids l-o-v-e breakfast! Whether it's a hot bowl of hand-flaked oatmeal, loaded with plump, juicy, raisins, pancakes studded with seasonal fruit here, and here, waffles, breakfast cookies, crockpot Greek yogurt, fresh scones and here, or their "new favorite" Blueberry-Drop Biscuit Cobbler!

Hannah and A.J. enjoying a fresh and fruity breakfast at Gram's . . . More ice cream please!

Fresh Raspberry Cheesecake Bites

I love berry season . . . We grow our own blackberries, and boysenberries, but when our local grocer has fresh red raspberries on sale . . . Well . . . I'm all over them! Tart! Sweet! Flavorful! Nothing can hold a candle to the taste of fresh, red raspberries!

DIY Coffee Liqueur for Baking

Liqueurs and extracts are expensive to buy, but relatively easy to make!

Uptown Banana Pudding Cheesecake

Have you ever made a recipe, and then were pleasantly surprised by not only how beautiful it looked . . . but by how amazing it tasted?!!!!

Beautiful, even while still in the springform pan!

Preserving Marinara Sauce

Where I live in the Arizona desert, our growing season is winding down . . . This week the temperature will hit 112F/44.4°C. Ferinheit or Celcius, that's way too hot for growing tomatoes!

Blueberry-Blackberry Rustic Tart

Fresh, sun-ripened, blueberries and blackberries . . . Add a buttery, cornmeal pie crust . . . and I'm all over it!

Crusty Peachy Peach Cobbler

It's that time again . . . Peach Season in Arizona!

Backyard Beauties

Yesterday, while I was canning my Spicy Blender Ketchup out on the back porch campstove, I took that 15 minutes to stop and smell the roses and check on things growing in the backyard! Here's a peek at the photos taken with my IPad Air!

This is my Americana climbing rose! It's unique, in that it has a delightful fragrance, and lots of petals!

Julie's Spicy Blender Ketchup

I grew up in a Midwestern home with parents who went through the Great Depression. As a result of that, they were thankful for, and took good care of, what they did have! We lived by the core value of: "Waste Not, Want Not".

Old-Fashioned Gingersnaps

This is my favorite Gingersnap recipe . . . Full of flavor . . . Cinnamon, cloves and ginger . . . Crispy, crunchy . . . The perfect dunker!

After a Difficult Few Months . . . I'm Back!

We all have times in our lives when trauma hits us and we become S-T-U-C-K ! ! !

Marinated Grilled Pork Tenderloin

I buy all our meat when it's on sale, and this shopping week (Wed-Tues) I found a beautiful, pork tenderloin calling my name!

DIY ~ Easy-Peazy Chocolate Shell

Will and I love chocolate on vanilla ice cream . . .

It's Springtime in Arizona . . . Time for my Upscale Dried Beef on Toast!

Last week Will was in Pennsylvania. They had blizzard conditions with blowing winds, 14-inches of snow, a wind-chill of minus 14 below zero/ -25.5C, of course, the schools were closed. Back home . . . It was a pleasant 77F/25C!

3 Ways to Use 1 Beef Roast, and Homemade Beef Stew Recipe

I have a special memory that revolves around homemade Beef Stew . . .