COOKIES:

Sugar Cookies $3.00 dozen

Peanut Butter Cookies $3.00 dozen

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies $3.00 dozen

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies $3.00 dozen

M&M Cookies $3.00 dozen

Chocolate Chip M&M cookies $4.00 dozen

Chocolate Chip Cookies $3.00 dozen

No Bake Cookies $3.00 dozen

Double Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies $3.00 dozen

Pumpkin Cookies Without Frosting $3.00 dozen

Pumpkin Cookies With Frosting $3.00 dozen

BROWNIES:

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Brownies $4.00 a pan

Banana bread brownies $ 4.00 a pan

Chocolate brownies $ 4.00

Chocolate Brownies with Chocolate Chips $ 5.00

CINNAMON ROLLS

Traditional Cinnamon rolls $7.00 a pan

Cinnamon rolls with maple glaze $7.00 a pan

Pumpkin cinnamon rolls $7.00 a pan

Orange cinnamon rolls with an orange glaze $8.00 a pan

MUFFINS:

24 Banana Nut Mini Muffins $11.00

24 Chocolate Chip Banana Nut Mini Muffins $11.00

24 Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins $10.00

24 Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins $11.00

Cupcakes:

12 cup cakes for $10.00

BREAD:

Regular white bread $ 2.99 a loaf

Banana Nut bread $4.50

Banana bread $4.00

Pumpkin bread $ 4.00 a loaf (full size loaf)

Pumpkin nut bread $4.50 a loaf

Chocolate Chip Banana Nut Bread Loaf $5.00 Loaf

Dinner rolls 6 for $2.00

Orange dinner rolls with a orange glaze 6 for $4.00

Chocolate Chip Banana Nut Bread Loaf $5.00 Loaf

White Bread 3.00 Loaf

Pies:

Apple Pie $10.00

Apple Pie with Crumb Topping $10.00

BlackBerry Pie $10.00

Blueberry Pie $10.00

Cherry Pie $10.00

Peach Pie $10.00

Pecan Pie $10.00

Pumpkin Pie $10.00

Old Fashioned Chocolate Pie $ 7.00

Shipping and Handling is extra

We had #Domino's pizza for dinner tonight. I love their bread bites so we got them and we also had their Hawaiian pizza. We always have their Brooklyn style crust. They have the best pizza in the Quad City Area.

BBQ some chicken on the grill last night. It was so amazing tasting.

Good morning everyone! Getting ready to start some Blueberry Muffins as soon as I get my husband out the door and off to work. Hope everyone has a great day!

Time to start the grill and get it ready for the chicken that I am going to BBQ for dinner tonight. I'm doing the grill so I know it will turn out good and NOT burnt!!!

I was going to grill burgers tonight. My husband decided he was going to grill them. I told him NOT to burn them. Well, he didn't burn them. He charcoaled the hell out of them!! I informed him that he will NEVER again grill anything since he always seems to burn it or even worse make it to where it isn't recognizable as food.

Good morning everyone! The weather here last night made some great sleeping weather. Got up this morning and found that the weather this morning is nice and crisp. Great hot cocoa weather.

Wonderful time out

My husband decided that I needed to leave the home for a little while last night. So he took me out for dinner. We went to Golden Corral. It was very nice to get out for a change. I had steak and prime rib. I also had some shrimp and fried chicken along with veggies. For my drink, I had sweet tea. We got a to go box for the fur babies. The cats got salmon and the dogs got prime rib and steak. Every one made out last night.

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Helpful cooking tip

Helpful cooking tip:
Chocolate absorbs odors from other foods and even none food products. Example; if you buy chocolate at a store and the bag boys puts a bar of soap in the same bag as your chocolate, your chocolate may taste like soap.

Banana Nut Bread

Banana Nut Bread
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 cup butter or margarine
2 cups white sugar
2 cups mashed overripe bananas
4 eggs, beaten
1 cup chopped walnuts
DIRECTIONS:
1.Preheat the oven to 350 DEGREES F. Grease and flour two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
2.Sift the flour, salt and baking soda into a large bowl. In a separate bowl, mix together the butter or margarine and sugar until smooth. Stir in the bananas, eggs, and walnuts until well blended. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry mixture, and stir just until blended. Divide the batter evenly between the two loaf pans.
3.Bake for 60 to 70 minutes in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted into the crown of the loaf comes out clean. Let the loaves cool in the pans for at least 5 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack, and cool completely. Wrap in aluminum foil to keep in the moisture. Ideally, refrigerate the loaves for 2 hours or more before serving.

Mock Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies

Mock Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies
Box of Ritz crackers.
Peppermint oil, 
Chocolate melting wafers
Directions:
Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave or in a small pan over low heat on the stove top.
Add a few drops of the peppermint oil and stir (number of drops depends on personal preference and I would recommend
you dip and taste to see if it is as pepperminty as you want it to be).
Drop crackers in chocolate and coat well. (I used a tooth pick to pull them out of the chocolate and placed them on the waxed paper.)
Place on waxed paper to set.
Refrigerate.
Enjoy!
Note: After they have set and the chocolate is firm, I transferred them from the cookie sheet to a sealed container.

Garlic Butter Shrimp

Garlic Butter Shrimp

Ingredients
2 - 12 ounce medium shrimp; peeled and deveined
8 TBS butter
1 TBS minced garlic
1/4 cup white wine ( I use Lucky Duck)
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
1/2 tsp Old Bay seasoning
Dried Parsley flakes

Directions
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium high heat.
Add shrimp, salt and pepper, to taste. Add the Old bay seasoning. Cook, stirring occasionally, until pink, about 2-3 minutes; remove from pan and set aside.
Add garlic to the skillet, and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir in white wine. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer until reduced by half, about 1-2 minutes. Stir in remaining 6 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, until melted and smooth.
Stir in shrimp and gently toss to combine.
Serve immediately, garnished with parsley leaves.

Grilled BBQ Chicken

Grilled BBQ Chicken 

Ingredients for BBQ sauce:
2 cups ketchup
1 cup water
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
5 Tablespoons light brown sugar
5 Tablespoons sugar
1/2 Tablespoon fresh ground black pepper
1/2 Tablespoon onion powder
1/2 Tablespoon ground mustard
1/2 Tablespoon liquid smoke
1/2 Tablespoon molasses
Ingredients for chicken:
Chicken
salt
Directions
In a medium saucepan, combine all ingredients. Bring mixture to a boil over medium-high heat and cook uncovered, stirring frequently, for 30 minutes. Let cool before using.
While you are waiting for the sauce to cool, Put some charcoal on one side of the grill. Oil the grate and then light the charcoal.
Salt the chicken and then put it on the grill on the charcoal side doing a quick sear. Then place it on the coal free side of the grill. Close the grill and let cook for about 1 hour turning once. Check with a meat thermometer for doneness. If it is 160 degree's, it is done. At this point, paint on the BBQ sauce and put back on top of charcoal and let it get a nice sear on the sauce. Remove from the grill and let cool for about 5 minutes. Then enjoy this wonderful stick yummy BBQ chicken.

Helpful cooking tip of the day

When cooking chicken, always make a brine to soak your chicken in prior to cooking it. A nice brine will fill your chicken with flavor and keep it nice and moist.

Brine Recipe

Simple Chicken Brine
Ingredients
1 gallon cold water
3/4 cup kosher salt (NOT table salt)
2/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 cup olive oil
Directions
Pour the warm water into a container that is twice the volume of the water. Pour in the salt, sugar, soy sauce, and olive oil. Stir until the sugar and salt have dissolved, then allow the brine to cool to room temperature.
To use, place chicken in the brine, cover, and refrigerate two hours for skinless breasts, 4 hours for bone-in pieces, and 4 hours to overnight for whole chickens. Drain, rinse and pat the chicken dry before cooking. One gallon of brine is enough for 6 pounds of whole chicken or bone-in chicken pieces, and up to 10 pounds of skinless, boneless chicken breasts.

Helpful cooking tip

When making mashed potatoes or fried potatoes, cut your potatoes up and soak them in cold water. This will remove some of the starch that is in the potatoes making them healthier for you. The potatoes will still have their wonderful taste.

I made up some Modeling chocolate today. I did white chocolate and regular chocolate. I will use that tomorrow to make strawberry roses with. I also made some thin mint cookies today as well.

I send my husband to Aldi's Grocery store to get me some chocolate chips and corn syrup. They didn't have any corn syrup so he found an employee and asked if they have any in the back. They informed him that it is a "seasonal" item. They only carry it in the winter time when people bake. So, I guess Aldi's doesn't think that people bake any other time of the year.

I been coming up with and trying new recipes that I have created. Will get them posted as soon as I can.

I am sitting here working on my new dish. It is a lasagna
dish. I think this is the hardest dish I have ever written! It will be easy to follow the instructions but is very difficult to write. There is so much in it that I am trying to get the ingredients measured out just right. That is the hardest part of writing up recipes. It should be a very good one once I am done with it. I call it " All Star 5 meat 6 cheese lasagna"!!

How to saute fresh spinach

How to saute fresh spinach
First thing you will want to do is take one 8 ounce bag of spinach and rinse it off real good. Strain it to get as much water off of it as you can. Then lay it out on a cheese cloth;spreading it out. Use another cheese cloth as pat it dry. (you should always rinse any veggies or fruit that you buy).
Cut up 3 or 4 cloves of garlic
Then you cut up a couple green onion's.
Take a skillet and put about 2 TBS of olive oil in it.
Let the olive oil get hot over a medium high heat.
When the oil get's hot, add the garlic and the green onions.
Cook them for about 1 minute. (You should be able to smell a very nice aroma from them.)
Now add the spinach a handful at a time. Toss it around in the skillet with a set of tongs until it wilts. This will take about 3 minutes or so. When the spinach is all wilted, remove it from the heat and add some salt and pepper to taste.
That is all there is to it.

I've decided to stay out of the house today and sit on my porch with my laptop to write my recipes. It is such a beautiful day out. Not to hot and not to cool. It is just right. My big boy Chevy Nova is right by my side like always. He is enjoying being outside as well. The other fur babies are sleeping in the chairs so I will just let them sleep. I hope everyone has a great and wonderful day!! Time for me to get back to writing my recipes.

My neighbour is so nice. She gave us some fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from her garden tonight. I gave her a bottle of my homemade BBQ sauce.

BBQ chicken on the barbie tonight was dinner. We had baked beans and potato salad with it. I made my own BBQ sauce from scratch. It was so yummy like always.

I just came up with a new recipe for lasagna! It will have 6 cheese's in it and 3 different meats. It will also have some vegetables in it. Then to top it all off, it will have a very rich white sauce! I will be making it up tomorrow to see how it turns out.

Delayed Kick In The Pants Encrusted Cod
Ingredients
6 cod fillets; thawed
1 TBS. cornmeal
1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/4 black pepper
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp. chili powder
1/4 tsp. paprika
1/8 tsp. red pepper flakes
3 TBS. shredded Colby-Jack cheese
3 TBS. grated Parmesan cheese
1 egg white
Directions
Lightly oil a baking pan
Pat cod with a paper towel to dry it.
Combine all the dry ingredients and the cheese together; Set aside.
Coat the top and sides of the cod by brushing on the egg white.
Take the cheese and dry ingredients blend and lightly press it on the top and sides of the cod.
Bake 11 minutes or until fillets flake easily with a fork.

Melt In Your Mouth Cornmeal Crusted Catfish
Ingredients
2 LBS. catfish nuggets
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 cup cornmeal
1 tsp. hot sauce
4 TBS. butter
2 TBS canola oil
1 tsp. sweet basil
1 tsp. lemon pepper
1 tsp. paprika
1/2 tsp. salt
Directions
Stir together the buttermilk and hot sauce.
Pour the mix in a zip lock bag and place the catfish in the bag with the mixture.
Now marinate the catfish for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, mix the salt,lemon pepper,paprika, and sweet basil together.
Put the cornmeal in a different zip lock bag and add the spice mixture blending it all together.
Over a medium high heat, melt the butter in the skillet and add the canola oil.
Take the catfish out of the marinate and put it in the cornmeal bag. Shake real well to coat the catfish.
When the butter and oil is hot,place the catfish in the skillet carefully making sure you don't burn yourself. Fry for about 3 minutes then turn once and frying on the other side for about 3 minutes.
Remove from skillet onto a plate with a paper towel on it.
You are now ready for this catfish to melt in your mouth.

Well, I was working on my cookbook almost all day today. I have 2 new recipes that I wrote for fish last night to go into the book. I just finished putting the recipes into categories. That will make it a little easier to keep everything organized for when I put the book together. Now I am getting ready to write up some helpful information to put into the book. I am hoping to have my book done and published by the end of the year. Fingers crossed on that!

I am new to blogging and not real sure if I will like it or not. I figure I will give it a try and if I like it, I will continue it. I love cooking and creating recipes. I have a cookbook that I am working on that I am hoping to have out by the end of the year.