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,

Mmm ... Desserts! It's a Linky Party! Come join the fun!

This might sound a bit like a jam commercial, but with a name like Man-Catching Peanut Butter Cookies, it's got to be good! I think many of us might have man-catching -- and keeping -- recipes. One of mine were chocolate truffles. :-) Go take a peek at my Chocolate Truffles Recipe. I have fond memories of those truffles, and they have become a tradition at our home. Ashton of Something Swanky

Eleven Ice, Sherbet, Parfait, Sundae Recipes to keep cool

It's been hot. These easy frozen dessert recipes will cool you down in no time. There are ices, sherbets, sundaes, a baked Alaska, and a parfait. Perfect for the summer. Perfect for year-round deliciousness.





Lemon Ice, Coca Cola Ice, Ginger Ale Ice, and Root Beer Ice Recipes

 Easy Cantaloupe Sundae Recipe

 Lemon Milk Sherbet and Lemon Cream Sherbet Recipes

Individual Brownie Alaska Recipe

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

No Ice Cream Maker Needed Method, 5 Ice Cream Recipes

It's been so hot in so many parts of the country that I'm sure you'll appreciate some ice cream recipes. I'm letting the "secret" out on how to convert any ice cream recipe so that you'll enjoy these even if you don't have an ice cream maker.
Keep cool and enjoy the weekend,



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No Ice Cream Maker Needed!
Make ice cream using this super easy method.






 

Caramel Ice Cream Recipe

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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.

WW Linky: Okashi (Sweets) for Japanese Tea Ceremony

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.


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Vintage Recipe Thursday: Pineapple Ice Cream Recipe

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This pineapple ice cream can instantly transport you to Hawaii, even if you are going on a staycation. That's what flavors and scents do to us. One whiff of a certain perfume, and we are a child in the arms of our grandmother. One bite of pineapple and we are on vacation in Hawaii.

This recipe couldn't be any easier, just blend the ingredients together, pour into your ice

Wordless Wednesday Linky: I love decorative sugar tongs

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

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Recipe: French eclairs and cream puffs

Today is Bastille Day or French Independence Day so I thought I'd share a French dessert.  My Household Searchlight cookbook which I use each week for Vintage Recipe Thursday is definitely all-American.  There are very few foreign recipes and fewer French recipes, but I did manage to find cream puffs and eclairs.  You can click on the link for the Cream Puffs Recipe which I previously shared. 

Wordless Wednesday: I love special teaspoons for my tea

This post is shared with Tea Party Tuesday, Martha's Tea Cup Tuesday,  Terry's Tea Cup Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, What I Love Wednesday, Vintage Share the Love Wednesday, I Love Blogging Wednesday Blog Hop, and Welcome Wednesday, Thursday Thirteen.

Be sure to sign in with the WW linky below.

Those of us who enjoy the art and pleasures of tea love all the paraphernalia too.  Today, I am

Wordless Wednesday: I love this tea strainer; a work of art

This post is shared with Tea Party Tuesday, Tea Cup Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, What I love Wednesday, I Love Blogging Wednesday Blog Hop, and Welcome Wednesday. Be sure to sign in with the WW linky below.

I was looking through Flickr and found this amazingly beautiful tea strainer, which I just had to share with all of you. It is a work of art, a real jewel, don't you think?



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Vintage Recipe Thursday: Cherry Mousse Recipe

Welcome back to Vintage Recipe Thursday. Please link your family or cookbook recipes in the linky below and enjoy visiting each other. :-)

Today, I'm sharing with you a cherry mousse recipe, because you know I love cherries.  :-)  If they are not quite in season yet in your state, fear not, this recipe actually calls for canned cherries.  There are only 4 ingredients, and if you use a can of

Have you joined The Foodie Blogroll yet?

When I first started this blog several years ago, there weren't very many food blogs, and there were even fewer dessert blogs.  My blog was less than a month old when I ran across a great blog called The Leftover Queen written by Jenn.  I realized that she had just started a blogroll for us few foodies, so we could find each other, and I joined as soon as I met the requirements.  Jenn had lots of

Sundaes on Sunday

"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."


Flickr/mauriziopani Maurizio Panicali
- Thornton Wilder

"Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos."
- Don Kardong, 1976 U.S. Olympic Marathoner

"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on Hot Fudge Sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt."
- Judith

Strawberry preserves recipe to enjoy for the rest of the year

Add your links below if you are participating in Vintage Recipe Thursday. I'm sharing about preserves today. I think more and more people may be interested, but our society has become so used to picking up a jar at the store, we may have 2 or 3 generations who have never preserved or canned before. This is how housewives did it back in the day when it was common.




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Recipe Linky Party and Coconut Strawberries Recipe

Calling all family recipes, and vintage cookbook recipes. It's time to link up those time-honored favorites for Vintage Recipe Thursday. Be sure to add your recipes to the linky below.

I also have a new giveaway, so don't miss out on your chance to win a delicious 2-pound Island Treasures Rum Cake made with award-winning Whaler's Rum.

Today's vintage recipe is called Coconut Strawberries.

Prize Winning Orange Cake Recipe

I love that there are so many prize winning recipes in my Household Searchlight Recipe Book.  I also love that most of the recipes were sent in by regular housewives.  These are real women who knew how to cook.  The entire magazine was founded on their recipes and their stories, a lot like Taste of Home, Gooseberry Patch and All You magazines are today.  I also picture many of these women would

Vintage Pineapple Cookies Recipe

It's time to celebrate mothers on Sunday. Do you have a favorite recipe from your mom or grandmother? Or maybe you have a special recipe your mom or mother-in-love would enjoy. You're invited to link up your vintage recipes below.

My own mom absolutely loves pineapple and pretty much any dessert or sweet with pineapples, so I'm thinking of her as I share this recipe for pineapple cookies. 

Official Fiona Cairns Royal Wedding Cake Recipe

Flickr/The British Monarchy; Hugo Burnand
The Royal Wedding at Buckingham Palace on 29th April 2011: The Bride and Groom, TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in the centre with attendants, (clockwise from bottom right) The Hon. Margarita Armstrong-Jones, Miss Eliza Lopes, Miss Grace van Cutsem, Lady Louise Windsor, Master Tom Pettifer, Master William Lowther-Pinkerton, Taken in the