A place to grow your relationship with God

Posts tagged ‘cooking’

Easy Basic Biscuit Recipe for All Occasions

Basic Biscuits
This is a basic biscuit recipe. To this recipe you can add cinnamon and raisins for cinnamon raisin biscuits. Add some garlic and shape the dough into bread sticks and then paint them with melted butter mixed with a little garlic and you will have garlic bread. Use cookie cutters to shape the dough and the possibilities are endless.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups Self-Rising Flour
  • 1/4 cup shortening
  • About 3/4 cup milk (if there is a lot of humidity in the air or it is raining, start with 1/2 cup milk.)

Directions:

  1. Heat oven to 450°F.
  2. In large bowl, cut shortening into flour until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  3. With a fork, stir in enough milk to form a soft dough or until dough pulls away from sides of bowl.
  4. Turn dough onto lightly floured board or pastry cloth; knead just until smooth. Roll
    dough to 12-inch thickness; cut with floured 2-inch round cutter.
  5. Place biscuits on ungreased baking sheet.
  6. Bake at 450°F for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.
  7. Makes 12 to 14 biscuits.

Variation: For Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits follow recipe for Basic Biscuits except substitute 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk for milk and sift 1/4 teaspoon baking soda with flour.

Category:

bread, Recipes

Tagged with:

Simple Meal Ideas for Family Dinner

Coming up with what’s for lunch or dinner can be stressful. Here are some recipes to make life a little easier. Remember to cook a little bit more for dinner and that can become lunch for the next day. This is a great time saver for busy weeks. More recipes will be added as time permits.

Click Here for more recipes and tips

Category:

Lunch/ Dinner, Recipes

Tagged with:

Healthy Pizza Recipes – Pizza Night, But Make It Healthy (and Seriously Delicious!)

Healthy Pizza Recipes – Pizza Night, But Make It Healthy (and Seriously Delicious!) Hey pizza lovers! Are you craving that classic cheesy goodness but trying to keep things a little lighter and brighter? Well, grab your aprons and get ready, because we’re about to embark on a pizza adventure that’s both incredibly satisfying and surprisingly […]

Healthy Pizza Recipes – Pizza Night, But Make It Healthy (and Seriously Delicious!)

This post is shared from another blogger.

Category:

Lunch/ Dinner, Recipes

Tagged with:

Cowboy Cookies

These are a family favorite. I remember making a big batch of these before every trip to see my dad. He loved these cookies.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3/4 cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
  • 1 cup packed light-brown sugar
  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 2 large eggs, at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 cup Raisins

Directions:

  1. Combine the oats, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl.
  2. Mix well.
  3. In a separate bowl, beat the butter, shortening, and sugars with an electric mixer for 2 minutes. Beat in the eggs, one at a time.
  4. Blend in the vanilla.
  5. Using a wooden spoon, stir in the dry mixture, about half at a time.
  6. Add the chocolate chips and walnuts. Stir until evenly mixed.
  7. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly butter two large, shiny baking sheets or line them with parchment paper.
  8. Using an small ice cream scoop or a spoon place dough in balls onto baking sheets leaving about 2½ inches in between.
  9. Bake one sheet at a time on the center oven rack for 13 to 14 minutes, turning the baking
    sheet 180 degrees midway through the baking time.
  10. When done, the cookies will have browned very lightly and still look moist beneath the
    surface. Do not over bake.
  11. Cool for 2 to 3 minutes on the baking sheet.
  12. Transfer to a rack to cool completely. If you’re using only one baking
    sheet, let it cool between batches. Makes about 24 cookies.
The picture shows the ice cream scoop.

VARIATIONS

  • Coconut Cowboy Cookies
    • Add 1 cup of flaked sweetened coconut to the dough along with the chocolate chips.
  • Bandanna Cowboy Cookies
    • Omit the chocolate chips and substitute 1 cup of white chocolate chips and 1 cup of Craisins. (The white and red suggest a bandanna.)
  • Peanut Butter Cowboy Cookies
    • Omit the chocolate chips and substitute 2 cups of peanut butter chips. Or use 1 cup each of peanut butter chips and chocolate chips.
Quick and Delicious Meals for Homeschooling Mothers

Category:

cookies, Recipes

Tagged with:

Quick and Delicious Cooking Ideas

I take great pleasure in preparing delicious meals for my family. As a homeschooling mother, I know significance of serving food promptly, particularly during lunchtime. Over time, I will be adding more recipes to this online cookbook.  I hope that this will others in determining what to prepare for their next, snack or dessert.  Happy cooking. This page is still a major work in progress. Keep checking back for more recipes.

Ultimate Cooking and Household Tips for Every Occasion: The content offers practical cooking tips, emphasizing meal planning, ingredient substitutions, grilling techniques, utensil selection, and cleaning hacks to enhance efficiency and enjoyment in the kitchen and home.
Microwave Cooking: Quick and Easy Recipes: Microwave cooking offers convenience, with various recipes available, from quick breakfasts and main dishes to snacks and desserts, showcasing its versatility in meal preparation.
Delicious Breakfast Ideas to Start Your Day Right: Breakfast is crucial for starting the day. Ideas include apple-cinnamon latkes, strawberry fritters, turkey bacon burritos, pancakes, sausage blankets, huevos estrellados, homemade McGriddles, and a veggie casserole.
Creative Scrambled Eggs Recipes: This page shares various creative scrambled egg combinations that the author’s husband enjoys beyond traditional recipes. Featured variations include spinach, corned beef hash, tuna, beef chorizo, and even hot dogs. These recipes serve as quick meals or side dishes, encouraging readers to try them for a flavorful twist on scrambled eggs.
Fun and Easy Recipes for Every Bake: This page offers a variety of recipes for making breads and desserts, including cornbread, donuts, cookies, pies, and cakes. It also provides baking tips, a time chart, and recommendations for apple varieties. More recipes and tips will be added over time to enhance the baking experience.
Simple Meal Ideas: Deciding what to prepare for meals can be challenging. Here are various recipes to streamline lunch and dinner planning, suggesting preparing extra for leftovers. It includes beef, chicken, fish, and vegetable dishes, along with Tex-Mex options and hearty soups. Additionally, it provides quick party foods and healthy pizza recipes, with more content to be added in the future

Salads

Simple Fruit Salad Recipe
Colorful Pasta Salad Recipe for Fresh Summer Meals

Desserts

Fudge, Candy, and Other Desserts

Seasonal

Drinks

Hot Drinks

Cold Drinks

Other stuff – not edible

Category:

Recipes

Tagged with:

Easy 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies

When I was a little girl, we didn’t have much money. We certainly didn’t have money for extras like cookies, but children like cookies. I was no exception. Thankfully, we go WIC. WIC, for those that may not know, stands for Women, Infants, and Children. WIC gives food to poor women who have infants and young children. One of the food items every month was a very large can of peanut butter. My mom came up with a recipe for peanut butter cookies. It was so easy. It only needed 3 ingredients. I loved those cookies. I still use the recipe with my children today. My daughter really likes them because of how simple it is. 

Ingredients:

  • 1 Cup peanut butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg

Directions:

  1. Mix all ingredients together.
  2. Roll into small balls and place onto an ungreased cookie sheet
  3. Press down with a fork
  4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
  5. Bake for about 7 minutes
  6. Let cool before removing from cookie sheet 
Fun and Easy Recipes for Every Baker

Category:

cookies, Family stories, Recipes

Tagged with:

Easy Potato Latkes Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 4 medium (about 4 C. pieces)
  • 1 medium onion 
  • 2 tsp. salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup flour
  • cooking oil

What You Do:

  1. Peel potatoes and cut into large
  2. Shred potatoes 
  3. Dice the onion
  4. Mix shredded potatoes, salt, onion, eggs, and flour.
  5. Heat 2 Tbsp. oil in pan. Add more oil as needed. 
  6. Spoon by tablespoonfuls into oil, and fry on one side until brown. Turn and fry on other side.
  7. Drain on paper towel.
Quick and Delicious Meals for Homeschooling Mothers

Category:

Latkes, Recipes, Seasonal, winter

Tagged with:

Easy Corned Beef Hash and Egg Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 6 eggs
  • 1 Can of corned Beef hash 

Directions:

  1. Cook corn beef until it starts to turn brown.
  2. Beat eggs
  3. Add eggs to corn beef and cook until done.
Quick and Delicious Meals for Homeschooling Mothers

Category:

eggs, Recipes

Tagged with:

Easy Chicken & Garlic Risotto Recipe

Chicken & Garlic Risotto
Prep/cook time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

  • l can Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup
  • 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts halves (about 1 lb.).
  • 1 tbsp. butter or margarine
  • 1 tsp minced garlic
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 cup uncooked rice
  • Campbell’s cream of Chicken Soup
  • 1 cup frozen peas and carrots

Directions:

  1. Season the chicken.
  2. Heat butter in skillet. Add chicken and cook 10 minutes or until browned. Remove chicken.
  3. Add garlic and let cook about 1-2 minutes.
  4. Add soups, water, and heat to a boil. Stir in rice and vegetables. Top with chicken. Cover and cook over low heat 25-30 minutes or until done. Remove from heat.
  5. Let stand 5 minutes.

    Makes 4 servings
Quick and Delicious Meals for Homeschooling Mothers

Category:

Recipes

Tagged with:

Essential Life Skills for Today’s Youth

Children are in need of learning basic life skills. In the effort to help them be better equipped to keep up with technology, many people have forgotten that children also need to learn basic skills. A computer can’t do everything for you. So many teens and young adults get to college, and they still need someone to wash their clothes, make appointments for them, and cook their food. This is ridiculous. I am sorry but a bright young adult should be capable of figuring out how to do basic things.

The lack of these skills demonstrates a lack of reading comprehension skills.

For teaching your teen how to cook, there are countless cookbooks written in very basic language for children. Please go to a library and check one out for your teens.

Here is a list of some of my favorite ones:

  • Betty Crocker’s cook book for boys and girls.
  • Kids cook! :100+ super-easy, delicious recipes /
  • American girl around the world cookbook
  • Get cooking / –Sam Stern’s get cooking
  • Kids cook 1-2-3: recipes for young chefs using only 3 ingredients
  • The Boxcar Children Cookbook
  • The Berenstain Bear’s Country Cookbook: Cub-Friendly cooking with an Adult
    These are just some that I like to use with my children, but there are many others

Think about washing clothes. Have you looked at the back of most laundry detergents? They have instructions.

Think about how to schedule an appointment. You need to know how to look at a calendar- which involves reading it- and you must talk to the person on a phone. Which part is hard? Additionally, there are many places that allow you to schedule online. These teens are supposed to know how to use a computer. So please teach your children how to read a calendar and mark on the calendar important dates.

Here is a website with links to sites that help teach other life skills. Many are useful things to know. https://freedomhomeschooling.com/life-skills/

Comprehensive Homeschool Resources by Grade and Subject

Category:

1st grade, 1st grade free resources, 2nd grade free resources, 3rd grade free resources, 4th grade free resources, 5th grade, 6th grade free resources, 7th grade, 8th grade, Education

Tagged with: