Cottage Cheese Cookies

My friend Sharon brought these as part of our dessert on Easter.  They are one of the best chocolate cookies I have ever had.  You can get the recipe here: http://www.food.com/recipe/chocolate-cottage-cheese-cookies-212364

Christmas Dinner

This year, family is coming to my home for Christmas. We will spend Christmas Eve decorating, baking and having a bunch in for dinner that evening. Then, on Christmas Day, it will just be my sisters, their spouses and me. Our menu: Roast duck –  Stuffed with fresh lemon, onion and garlic Twice baked potatoes

DIFFERENT KINDS OF SLAW

It’s very cold here today, so my main meal was gravy made with ground elk over mashed potatoes. To go with it, I made one of my different kinds of slaw. Typically, it’s cole slaw, which is shredded cabbage with a mayonnaise dressing in its most basic form.  People add various things to that:  Carrot,

A HOT BATH

In the part of the world where I live, winter has more than arrived:  It’s cold and windy.  Part of the time, we have snow and ice; other times, it’s barely above freezing and rainy.  Bottom line:  Tis the season for nice, hot baths.  I can’t think of a better way to get warm.  

CHRISTMAS COOKIES

What is your favorite Christmas cookie? Maybe yours isn’t a cookie, but fudge or cheese ball… Or some kind of bread. For that matter, what is your favorite holiday food? Why? The thing that makes any of these delicacies special is the memory and feeling associated with them. It’s so pleasant to remember when Mom

HOW TO ROAST PUMPKIN SEEDS

As promised, here are instructions for roasting pumpkin seeds…or winter squash seeds; the same things apply. I know of three ways to fix these healthy gems: Simply roasted, shell and all: 1.  Scoop them out of the pumpkin or squash, pulp and all. 2.  Separate the pulp and throw it away. 3.  Rinse the seeds;

HOW TO PROCESS PUMPKIN

In my experience, most people know how to “process” a pumpkin by cutting a lid in the top, scooping out the insides, carving it and setting it on their  porches with some sort of light in it….but wait! There is another, better way to process this wonderful cultivar of the squash plant: First, there are

PUMPKIN CAKE

I often create recipes, mostly because I can’t find things made the way I like them. This week, it’s pumpkin cake. My goal was to have something healthy that tastes good. So, here it is: List #1 2 cups pumpkin (I grow and process my own.) 1 cup yogurt  (Plain or honey works well; fruit

ROASTED VEGIES

Do you ever create a meal that turns out especially good, to the point that you want to share it? I did that for lunch today: Get out a cookie sheet; set the oven to 325. Now, peel beets and cut them into 1/4-inch slices.  (I call these “beet steaks,” especially if they are large

PRUNE WHIP

Once in a while, it’s fun to share a recipe. this is one my mother made very frequently for a period of about two years.  she absolutely loved prunes!  She could eat them just about any way:  Cake, rolls, stewed… I used to tease her by saying, if I could find a recipe for macaroni