Recipe: Cherry Pie

I LOVE this recipe!  If you have the patience to hand-pit the cherries, you will be well-rewarded!  You will need: 2 9″ pastry crusts (see note below) 4 cups fresh cherries in their juice, hand-pitted (try not to lose juice) 1 cup sugar, plus approx. 1 Tbsp. 4 Tbsp. instant/minute tapioca 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract [...]

Recipe: Beach Cobbler

This recipe was named such for two reasons: I learned the recipe from a friend’s mama during an annual beach trip, and we make this evey year while at the beach (ok, and throughout the year too!).  If you like a flaky, crispy cobbler, this is not from you.  This is a softer, cake-like consistency [...]

Recipe: Frozen Grapes and Pops

One of my favorites this time of year… Wash a batch of red, seedless grapes, place in the freezer, and enjoy these delectable, sticky, yummy sweet treats! Another fun way to serve these up is to take the fresh washed grapes (can use green or red, but be sure they are seedless) and place them [...]

Recipe: Pumpkin Fluff

  This could also be titled “How I Get My Preschooler to Eat Pumpkin” or “Mommy’s Low-Fat, Low-Cal Fix for Pumpkin Pie.” 1 can of pure pumpkin, NOT pumpkin pie mix (soup can size, not the huge can) 1 container of fat-free Cool Whip (or other ff whipped topping), thawed 1 box sugar-free pudding mix (do [...]

Recipe: Cake Icing

Yum!  Who doesn’t love a tasty icing for cakes and cupcakes?  My husband celebrated a birthday this week, so I made Devil’s food cupcakes with homemade icing, then dipped them in jimmies, arranged on a cupcake rack, and added a candle.  Here is the recipe I used to make the icing…delicious! 1 stick of butter, [...]