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 Make it do or do without... that was a part of a phrase I heard a lot from my Grandma growing up. And it's so true, I have been able to transform and improve a lot of recipes doing just that. Yesterday Crow wanted to go to the store to buy ingredients for a meal, and I was like, show me the recipe and let's see what we already have that we can use instead. The Recipe comes from Sally - I'm assuming it's Sally's Baking Addiction because she uses that blog a lot. Here are the original ingredients and in bold are the changes I made. INGREDIENTS 1 Tbsp olive oil 1 lb ground turkey ( I used 1.2 lbs ground beef ) 1 cup chopped yellow onion 1 cup chopped bell pepper ( I combined onion and the bell pepper ingredients by using pre-diced frozen onion and vegetable mix from Great Value - it contains onion, bell pepper, celery, parsley ) 1/2 jalapeno, finely chopped, seeds and ribs removed ( I used a 1 tbsp jalapeno jelly ) 2 garlic cloves, minced ( I used 2 tsp Great Value mi...

 I decided to make some oatmeal cookies, and even though I had a copy of the best oatmeal chocolate chips cookies already, I tried a different recipe and they were so-so... just okay. So, I searched my blog for my old standby Sergeant York cookies , which he (my brother) calls Vanishing Oatmeal *Chocolate Chip* Cookies and baked them first thing this morning. And it really is The Very Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe on the web - in my humble opinion. Here is a tip, put the butter out the night before so it's soft and ready to cream together with the sugar. Next morning, heat the oven to 350 to get it warmed and ready to bake as soon as possible. Then, cut a large parchment sheet of paper for your baking tray. Okay, great - now we can blend everything up in the Kitchen Aid and bring it together quickly. I may be a boredom baker - but I do things as quickly and efficiently as possible these days. INGREDIENTS 1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, softened 1 cup firmly packed bro...

I've been making Dutch style pancakes for years. Pretty much ever since I moved to Holland with my Dutch husband and then along came the kids and they would request them for dinner quite regularly.  I met this Dutch lady, Tonie Kuurstra and she taught me how she made them - and she used to operate a bed n breakfast so she made a lot of them. I went to her house one time and she had stacks and stacks of them. She made them with butter, too as I recall... and that's how I usually make them as well. However, today, I experienced the most scrumptious griddle-like perfect pancakes and no butter was used. So, here is what happened. Yesterday, the doctor's office called me with the results of my blood test... and it turns out that everything was good except in one place it said my fat or lipid was too high. I need to cut back on the fat intake. Which makes sense because I cook with a lot of butter. :D So, even though I used the full fat milk in this recipe, the big difference was ...

Freepik Ingredients:  2 Tbsp fish sauce 1 Tbsp low-sodium soy sauce or Teriyaki sauce 5 Tbsp light brown sugar 1 Tbsp rice vinegar 1 Tbsp Tamarind Concentrate/Tamarind Paste 1-3 tsp Sriracha hot sauce or Sambal Oelek 1 Tbsp sesame oil 1 Tbsp chinese sesame paste or Tahini Directions: Combine sauce ingredients in a bowl or in a shaker bottle. Add to prepared noodles, vegetables, and protein source. 

 This morning my son wanted to bake peanut butter chocolate chip cookies from the dough you buy at the store but I said, let's just look up a recipe in a cookbook and if we have all the ingredients then we can make it. So, the cookbook I looked in first is called Chocolate Never Faileth. It's a book my mom got for me and it's probably from the Deseret Book store with a name like that. Very Mormon sounding. Anyway, we found a recipe and then tweeked it a bunch. Then, after the first batch I got this awfully good idea to add Oreo cookie pieces to the batter and then I baked a batch of those and they were amazing! So, I'm going to include it here so I can find it again and bake it again. Yum. 😋 Click here for Print Version. Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies with Oreo Crumbles  By Melissa Daams For the Dough On speed 2, cream together  2 sticks butter, softened ¼ cup peanut butter 1 cup granulated sugar ¾  cup brown sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract Move to Speed 1, Add ...

First rock I ever painted for the Kindness Rock Project #StGRocks on Facebook! One Sunday, the whole family painted rocks, here is our loot! My favorites here where the lips and the guitar!