Showing posts with label Carnivals and Memes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carnivals and Memes. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Vintage Recipe: Raisin Pie



Paphiopedilum Orchid (Raisin Pie x Spellbound)
Do you have a vintage recipe to link up? I encourage you to link your family's favorite recipes or ones from an old cookbook or recipe postcard.

This week I'm sharing a raising pie recipe. It's a good one for Fall and will be a tasty addition to your Thanksgiving dessert table. The Raisin Pie pictured at right is a hybrid Paphiopedilum orchid.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Dessert Recipe Linky Party: YOUR desserts wanted!

Happy Monday!
Time to feature a few of the delicious desserts linked to this blog last week.
Drumroll ..... dddrrrrrrrrrrr ......

SugarBeam's Raisin Cinnamon Roll Cupcakes

Conni's Pumpkin Spice Latte Cupcakes at Mrs. Mama Hen

Dorothy's S'more Caramel Apples at Crazy for Crust

Don't these recipes look and sound marvelous? I sure thought so. Thank you all for participating in this dessert

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Vintage Recipe Linky Party: Banana Fritters Recipe

In this day and age many, perhaps most people are concerned about health and staying slim. Yet more and more are becoming obese. We have TV shows like The Biggest Loser. It used to be that the "fat kid" in class was the odd ball. Today, those kids are the norm in our child's school. Isn't it odd that in earlier decades people could eat a Breakfast of Champions with cholesterol-laden eggs,

Monday, September 26, 2011

Monday Dessert Recipe Linky Party Time

Linky party time! Come link up your dessert recipes.

Here are just a few of the delicious recipes from last week's participants:
Cares and Mimi of From Which Things Grow shared their Caramel Sauce Recipe. Stop buying your caramel sauce at the store. You can make your own in no time. It's easy and so tasty.



The Local Cook shared a Pear Custard Pie, a great Fall dessert. It's another easy

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Fall, Thanksgiving Dessert: Easy Squash Honey Pie Recipe

We're still in summer weather mode here in California, but I know many parts of the country are ready for Fall recipes, so I've picked out a delicious Squash Honey Pie Recipe. It can become a new tradition for your Thanksgiving tables and all through Fall. Add more honey to taste if you prefer.

For Thanksgiving I always have three standard desserts which family and friends request -- Pumpkin Pie

Monday, September 19, 2011

Dessert Recipes Wanted: Linky Party!

Ready to link up your dessert recipes? Which wonderful desserts will you share with all of us this week?

I'm highlighting Kolaches, Oatmeal Cherry Cookies and Banana Brown Sugar Ice Cream from last week's participants.

Let's all wish a Happy Birthday to Trish of Sweetology who shared a beautiful and touching post about her love for her grandmother. She included two recipes, a traditional

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Vintage Recipe: Magic Coconut Orange Loaf Cake

Happy Thursday to all! It's time for more vintage recipes. I try to preserve these gems for another generation. You are invited to preserve your own vintage recipes, your mom's, grandmother's, aunt's or vintage recipes from old cookbooks, postcards, adverting, etc. So many are quite delicious, some are hilarious. So whether you want to honor a loved one's recipe or give us a "what were they

Monday, September 5, 2011

Happy Labor Day Dessert Recipe Linky Party Picnic

Happy Labor Day!! Enjoy the picnics, your family and have a great day off. If you brought a dessert for this Labor Day recipe picnic, please link it below. Have fun!

Gooseberry Patch



BEFORE YOU LINK:
If you follow basic linky party etiquette, I thank you. All your hostesses and fellow bloggers will appreciate it and you will benefit too. You will find that you are helping your own

Monday, August 29, 2011

Mmm ... Dessert Linky Party

Welcome back to my weekly dessert recipe linky. You linked up some great recipes last week, and below is just a sampling. Thank you to all the great bloggers for sharing their recipes with the world and linking at Joy of Desserts.

Please remember basic blogging etiquette. I don't want to have to delete anyone's great links. If you want to link a giveaway, please use my Giveaway 24/7 Page, don't

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Raisin Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe and Linky Party

It's back to school time for many families, so I'm sharing a cookie recipe which can easily be sent in school lunches, and it's just as easy to take on the road too if you are a busy homeschooling family. Cookies are always favorite snacks and desserts so enjoy this Raisin Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe.

This vintage recipe uses shortening, but I much prefer the taste of real butter which I think

Monday, August 22, 2011

Which wonderful desserts will you be sharing this week?

Which wonderful desserts will you be sharing with all of us this week? It's time to link up.

Here are some fun desserts! I love highlighting some of your desserts and linking back to you. This is just a small sampling of what caught my interest last Monday:

Raspberry Bites - a super easy dessert made with store-bought puff pastry and raspberry jam (or any other flavor.) It was shared by Ewa of

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Calling all vintage recipes! Linky party time!

Time for another Vintage Recipe Thursday Linky Party! Please share with all of us your family favorites. It should be at least 10 years old. How about recipes from when you were a newlywed or a teenager? Maybe it was your mom's recipe or an aunt's or your grandmother's. Or use a recipe from an old cookbook, postcard, magazine or newspaper. Lots of publishers have unfortunately gone out of

Monday, August 15, 2011

Joy of Desserts Monday linky party

Today is the last day to get your coupon for free Dannon Activia Select Yogurt, so click on the link to grab it while you still can. There's French Style and Greek Style!*****
If you are used to visiting Joy of Desserts, then you probably noticed that I love desserts with fruits. Those are some of my very favorite desserts, so I'm highlighting three of these very tasty fruit recipes.

And I don't

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Tasty! Vintage Recipe Thursday Linky Party

Each week I look forward to seeing your vintage recipes. There are so many tasty recipes that should be preserved for future generations. Please link below your family recipes or those from old cookbooks, magazines, recipe postcards, etc. To be vintage, a recipe only needs to be 10 years or older.

Take a look at a few of the tasty contributions from last week's linky party. Click on the photos

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Wordless Wednesday: Tea Infusers

I have a Wordless Wednesday linky each week. Be sure to link your post below. Follow me if you want to easily find this weekly linky.

I also have a coupon for FREE Yogurt for all of you (just click on the link.)

This post is shared with Trish's Tea Party Tuesday, Martha's Tea Cup Tuesday,  Terry's Tea Cup Tuesday, Tea Time Tuesday, Tea Things Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, What I Love Wednesday

Monday, August 8, 2011

Joy of Desserts linky party

Come one, come all. It's time to link up to the Joy of Desserts linky party. Remember to hyperlink back to all your party hostesses in your participating posts.

I also have some FREE yogurt coupons for all of you, so hurry and grab them before they expire. Just click on the FREE yogurt link.
I'm highlighting three recipes from last week's tasty selections. It's a tough job, but someone has to do

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Vintage Goodness: Easy Banana Ice Cream Recipe



Flickr/Halai Mama
Who loves banana ice cream? That's the recipe my husband picked from the Searchlight Recipe Book. You won't find this flavor in most grocery stores, but homemade ice cream is so easy. Have no fear if you don't have an ice cream maker. You can still make it using this no ice cream maker necessary method.

This is a great recipe for using your over-ripe bananas too, and don't

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Wordless Wednesday Linky: flowering or blooming teas

I have a Wordless Wednesday linky each week. Be sure to link your post below and to follow me if you want to easily find this weekly linky.

This post is shared with Trish's Tea Party Tuesday, Donna's Tuesday Tea Chat, Martha's Tea Cup Tuesday,  Terry's Tea Cup Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, What I Love Wednesday, Vintage Share the Love Wednesday, Woo Us To Your Blog, and Thursday-13.

I love to

Monday, August 1, 2011

Dessert Linky Party Time!

The wonderful ladies who link up each week are so talented in both creating tasty deserts, and creating beautiful eye candy photographs, that you owe it to yourself to visit their blogs and make new bloggy friends.
You know the old commercial, "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't"? Well I'm a huge fan of those two candy bars, but these days we have to make just about everything

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Caramel Ice Cream Recipe



Flickr/daveleb
Here's a recipe to help you (and me) beat the heat. I love to make homemade ice cream, and if you haven't tried it, you haven't realized how easy it is. It is much better tasting than most store-bought ice cream and much cheaper too. I love that I get to control the quality of my ingredients and try out all sorts of wonderful flavors I would not be able to buy from a brand.