A friend shared some gluten-free cookies with me the other day. Even if you’re not gluten-intolerant, these are delicious! These would be great cookies to let your kids stir up to combat the summer boredom. Try them and let me know what you think. Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Cookies Stir together: 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg Drop by spoonsful onto a greased baking sheet or on parchment paper. Smash them flat with a fork. Bake at 350…
When great-grandma stored fresh vegetables, she used a root cellar or put them in small wooden nail kegs covered with dirt in the back yard. This afforded the family fresh vegetables throughout the winter. I haven’t seen too many root cellars where I live. I don’t even know if nails come in kegs anymore. In this day and age we need to adapt. Did you ever reach for an onion or garlic and find they’ve rotted? Here’s a solution a…
Have you even gone to the store to buy certain items for a recipe only to get home to find you forgot one key ingredient? For me, it takes all the fun out of cooking. I don’t like to make a list before I go, or print off a copy of the recipe. I’m certainly not going to carry a cookbook with me to the store. But now there is a solution. Download a cookbook in an e-reader version on…
With the price of meat soaring, I’m always looking for cheaper stuff. Go to the store early in the morning to find reduced meat that is about to expire in a day or two. There’s nothing wrong with it. That green in the left picture isn’t bad meat. Read on. I found some flank steak the other day. It’s usually tough and needs to be boiled. Who wants to boil meat for several hours in Kansas heat? I tried this…
As of today, we’re waiting for the proof copy of Family Favorites from the Heartland: Recipes Sure to Please. Perhaps tomorrow . . . .Then we can proceed to publication. Hopefully it will be available on Amazon.com by next week.