for grandmothers and others
Recipes from a grandma. Desserts, main dishes, breakfast food, beverages, holiday treats, traditional favorites, air fryer and pressure cooker recipes. Goodies for grandmothers, baby boomers, folks living the empty nest lifestyle.
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Bagels are king in our house. Far more appreciated—and eaten—than doughnuts and gooey pastries. This is an adapted recipe, a melding of one from Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook and the one included with my bread maker. Yes, I used the bread maker for the kneading, so this recipe is geared toward placing the ingredients in that, but you could surely make them without one.
Read MoreOver the past three decades or so, I've tried and tweaked more brownie recipes than I can count. They never turn out the way I want. Too dry. Too mushy. Too hard around the edges. Too much trouble. Then along came a recipe that was close and after a few tweaks resulted in just what I hoped for: the best basic brownies. This is my tweaked recipe. It's basic. Which is how I like my brownies. But it goes from basic to BAM! with stir-ins or toppings for non-basic brownie lovers.
Read MoreApple season has arrived and so did recently a bag of sweet, crunchy, yummy organic honeycrisp apples from Wacky Apple Organic orchards in Hotchkiss, Colorado. I shared a few with my apple-loving daughter and her hubby, munched a few with my hubby, and made these easy apple turnovers — using refrigerated crescent rolls — with others. So good! Thank you, Wacky Apple!
Read MoreMy oldest daughter has been generously sharing with me the bounty of her garden, especially the abundant zucchini and summer squash. I have a couple zucchini dishes I regularly count on — Chocolate Zucchini Bread and Zucchini Cobbler in particular — but hadn't yet found a pleasing way to prepare summer squash as a sweet treat. (My husband eats squash only when hidden in baked goods... so the need for such was real.) I recently came across a summer squash bread that came close to what I sought. Converting it to muffins and topping with streusel resulted in all that I'd hoped for: a more-healthy-than-some-treats afterschool snack for grandkids or a tasty breakfast goodie for grownups.
Read MoreI am an unabashed sucker for strawberries. You, too? Then you will surely love my scrumptious strawberry muffins.
These breakfast time—or any time—goodies are sweet but not too sweet, simple, and made from scratch using everyday ingredients most cooks have readily on hand. And they're chock full of fresh, flavorful fruit. (Which makes them healthy, right? Meh... close enough for me!)
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