These before and after shots show why Jack goes to the barber with Daddy or Poppaw. WalMart is good for cheap cereal and eggs. Hair cuts? Not so much.

I have a new favorite cookie recipe. Normally, I am a chunky double chocolate chip cookie kind of girl, but this recipe I tried out Sunday is easily the best cookie recipe ever. It’s the perfect light and fluffy, cakey cookie with a yummy caramel icing. I found it on allrecipes.com:

INGREDIENTS
2 cups shortening
2 [...]

Do you every use Pepperidge Farm’s Puff Pastry? It’s in the frozen section near the frozen desserts, etc. If you ever need to make a fancy meal or dessert you need to visit puffpastry.com. There are a million different ways to use it, and lots of the recipes are super easy.
Last Sunday we had the [...]

I have made this chocolate cake recipe several times and it is a wonderfully rich chocolate cake. This last time, I shaved white chocolate over the top to make it pretty. I’m sure there’s a fancy tool for shaving chocolate, but I just used a vegetable peeler and it worked pretty well! The [...]

I love shortbread, but I don’t think I had ever had it made with oatmeal.  I’ve made this twice now- it’s nice because there are only a few ingredients. This recipe is from Taste of Home’s Quick Cooking magazine:

1 cup butter (softened)
3/4 cup sugar
1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups quick cooking oats
3/4 teaspoon of salt

In a [...]

Have you ever made the fudge recipe on the back of the Jet Puffed Marshmallow Creme? We just made some tonight, and I forgot how good it is. I can take a bite, close my eyes and rewind to 1981…
My grandmother (Dad’s mother) made this fudge every year at Christmas and it was always [...]

I made these bars for snack time after our church bible study group last night. They were really yummy and came from the Kraft Food and Family magazine. You can get this magazine free: click here. We have really enjoyed it- lots of good recipes (including Kraft products, of course). I used [...]

We found this recipe in an RBC cookbook, contributed by Mrs. Wilcoxon. I’ll never make deviled eggs the old way, with mustard, again.
1 dozen eggs
6 slices of bacon, crumbled (by the way, I realized recently that you get a much better result by snipping the bacon into small pieces with kitchen scissors before you [...]

We got this recipe from a Better Homes & Gardens magazine. The recipe calls for ground turkey, but I made it the other day with ground chicken and it was even better! The fresh basil and bacon are what make them so good.
1 slightly beaten egg
8 slices bacon, crisp cooked and finely crumbled
1/2 [...]

Thought I would pass along this recipe which has become a favorite in our house recently. It’s a Rachael Ray 30 Minute Meals recipe. We double the amount of smoked sausage so it’s more main course than side dish.
Linguica Corn Stuffing 
Salt and pepper
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 cup beef stock (we usually use chicken stock)
1/2 [...]