Zucchini Fries

This is a great way to use up all that zucchini in your garden.  The name says fried but they are actually baked.  Serve with ranch dressing and you will have a new favorite appetizer for your family and friends. Print Recipe Zucchini Fries Prep Time 30 minutes Cook Time 30 minutes Servings people Ingredients…

Herbed Cheese Popovers

Boursin-style cheese and herbs melt into the batter, making these popovers very special.

High Hat Popovers

Popovers are fun!  They’re a nice change from your basic dinner roll when you are in a festive mood.  There are special ‘popover pans’ but they are not required.  They will rise and shine in a cupcake pan just as well.   A food processor doesn’t beat in enough air for the desired lightness, so use…

Corn Bread (enhanced)

You will love this extra moist cornbread.  It’s a great partner to serve with Fabulous Chunky Chili, also found on this blog!

Glazed Doughnuts

Remember when people stood in line to buy Krispy Kreme’s?  Making these doughnuts your self will be a little more work but the taste results will be the same, you will have a lot of fun, and you just might have to chase a line of people from the front of your door!! Print Recipe…

Eggnog Cake

Can you imagine getting seventy fabulous pieces of cake from one recipe of batter?  Drenched with a heady brandy-and-rum glaze, these moist, nutmeg-scented squares don’t need garnishing.  But a rosette of hard sauce assures that they are irresistible, and a family favorite.

Cream Puffs

This is a basic recipe for cream puffs.  The size you choose to make them will determine their function, ie; dessert, appetizer, etc. This recipe may be easily multiplied.  I have often made it using appropriate quantities in ratio to 6 eggs.  I’ve stuffed miniatures with chicken salad for appetizers, or filled them with a…

Frosted Brownie Squares

Rich, moist, and totally chocolaty, these squares are blanketed with a sleek, satiny chocolate glaze.   They are the ultimate chocolate cake/ brownie, great for a dessert platter or tea party.

Butter Horn Cookies

This is a Christmas cookie standard.  It’s pastry like dough melts in your mouth, it’s powdered sugar coating announcing the great tastes that are to come.  It also  looks great on a plate with a variety of other holiday treats.  You know the holiday’s have arrived when these confections are on your dessert plate.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This was the most popular recipe in our house when the boys were in school.  I would make a double batch almost every other day.  It wasn’t just the McGowan boys’ favorite,  it was the neighborhood favorite.  More than once, a group of smiling faces would come to the door to see “if the boys…

Oatmeal Cookies

The oatmeal cookie rose to popularity in the early 1900’s.  It has been one of my favorite’s ever since (he! he!)  O.K. so I probably didn’t find out about them until some delicious day after 1941!  I love the moist chewy flavor with an occasional sweet raisin surprise. If you are trying to justify eating…

Snickerdoodles

And old standby for sure.  Great cookie for kids because they aren’t real messy.