Homemade Spaghetti Sauce

This is one of those recipes born out of trying to duplicate a restaurant dish. One of the local pizza places has a deal where you can get a small container of pasta to go with your pizza. We actually ordered the Alfredo version (and have copied it with two jars of Alfredo sauce and…
Quick Lunch Idea: Cheese Quesadillas Quesadillas (kay-suh-dee-uhs) are a family favorite for a quick lunch during a busy homeschooling day. At our house, the average five-year-old stands on a chair and learns to cook their own on a griddle. In fact, it’s always a good idea to have ingredients on hand for easy meals that…
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 blotches to prove it! One recipe destined…
Every recipe has a story, whether it’s about the first time you cooked it, or where you found it. This recipe is a fairly recent family favorite, although certain family members have very definite preferences about it. I know of one little girl who eats everything but the corn, leaving the golden kernels in the…
Many of our favorite family recipes have a story behind them. This slushy drink was served at a baby shower for one of my daughters when she was expecting her first baby. Most of my girls like coffee and at the party we fell in love with a delicious coffee drink that was served as…
Homemade Cornbread, No Box Required by Charlotte Siems For many years I thought cornbread came from a box. We liked slightly sweet cornbread, and a particular mix in a little blue box was our favorite. Then we found a recipe for homemade cornbread and never looked back. Really, it’s not any harder to whip up…
This sounds yummy! I am going to try it!! Thank you, Charlotte!