Post updated: [post_modified_date] Maybe you grew up with boxed pudding mixes like I did. The cooked version was better than instant, but you haven’t tasted delicious pudding until you’ve eaten homemade chocolate pudding! This is another stained and splattered recipe from a little recipe notebook given to me …
Post updated: [post_modified_date] Homemade vanilla ice cream is a warm-weather dessert that usually shows up for cookouts and Sunday School class parties. We made three freezers of homemade ice cream for a rehearsal dinner in a barn a few years ago and it was a big hit. We …
These days our family equates real mashed potatoes with special occasions like holidays or big family gatherings. But it wasn’t always so. Let me take you back to our life many years ago, before I give you our recipe for homemade mashed potatoes. We lived in a tiny …
It’s wedding week, on the heels of a funeral weekend. We currently have a dozen houseguests, in addition to the seven of us who live in our home. That’s two families of five and one young married couple….who are visiting for more than a week. Twelve + seven …
Church potlucks can be an amazing dining experience, with everyone bringing their best dishes to share. As a pastor’s wife I’ve attended my share of potlucks over the years, and I have a few favorite recipes for dishes that I like to bring, depending on the theme. To …
Several years ago three of our high school boys had the privilege of taking an online German class. They had an inside track because the university professor attended our church, so she met with them weekly for live tutoring sessions. At the end of the school year …
If there was a prize for most-often-served Sunday dinner, spaghetti would win at our house. It’s simple, quick to throw the sauce into the crock pot before Sunday School, and pleases almost everyone. Not only that, it serves a big crowd (or makes a good amount of leftovers …
The night before our wedding, my mother-in-law gave me a special gift. It was a little blue notebook filled with handwritten recipe cards, detailing my new husband’s favorite childhood recipes. Over the years I cooked (nearly) every recipe in that little book, and it has the spatters and …
Cooking for a large family means that there are a few family dishes that are not someone’s favorite. I can think of a certain child who doesn’t care for rice and another one who doesn’t like eggs. Then there’s the guy who used to like Tuna Casserole but …
