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Recipes at the Top:  Chit Chat at the Bottom Sweet Hot Mustard (a/k/a "Hot Pepper Butter") comes from a garden of sweet and hot peppers, prepared mustard, vinegar, sugar, and Clear Jel.  It's great for gift giving and for potlucks.  It can be your little secret because they don't sell anything like it in the store.  Somewhat like honey mustard but with some spicy kick.  You are just going to love it!  Come see how I make Sweet Hot Mustard / Hot Pepper Butter AT HOME MY WAY!   Sweet Hot Mustard (canning recipe) (a/k/a "Hot Pepper Butter") (printable view here) Ingredients: 16   cups  rough  chopped hot and/or sweet peppers (36 peppers of various heat and colors) (I used bell peppers, green, red, and purple; red banana peppers, green tricked you Jalapeno peppers, and about 5 red hot chili peppers.  I will increase the heat next year cause I kinda like it a little hot)  Regular jalapenos would be great but I didn't ...

  Ooey Gooey Butter Cake PRINTABLE VIEW HERE 1 Yellow Cake Mix (standard box -dry mix only) 3 Eggs (one for the crust; two for the cream cheese mix) 8 oz block of Cream Cheese (softened) 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter (the real thing), melted 4 cups powdered sugar (+ a little extra powdered sugar for sprinkling after cooled) Instructions: PREHEAT OVEN to 300 degrees F. and spray a 9x13 dish well with cooking spray. MIX cake mix, melted butter and ONE egg to a soft dough. PRESS into the bottom of the sprayed 9x13 pan. MIX powdered sugar, softened cream cheese and remaining TWO eggs until smooth (for about 1-2 minutes).  (I used the same bowl that I used for making the crust.) POUR on top of unbaked crust. BAKE at 300 ° for 40-50 minutes (until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the middle). THE CHIT CHAT Potlucks are always tough for me.  I love to cook.  I mean, I really LOVE TO COOK but when I need to take something to a potluck where I have no idea what other ...

  What recipes do you know by heart?  You know, the recipes you pull out of your soul when you cook on auto pilot; the recipes that a special loved one made for you once upon a time and now you make them for the people you love? Recipes You Know by Heart By Gina 2025-  www.AtHomeMyWay.blogspotcom What recipes do you know by heart,  made from memory each time you start?   Where recipe books sit packed away  and stains adorn them where they stay.   Where biscuit bowls sit and wait  for sifts of flour and sleepers late.  Where sizzling butter becomes pancakes fluffy  a nd tummies become happy stuffy Where muffins don't need a mix  and frosting needs no special tricks. Where warm chocolate pudding doesn't start with a box and ice cream churns in icy rocks So many Spaghetti Sundays through the years  for celebrations, hugs or tears.  Simmered slow by moms and grannies with bread to swipe all the crooks and crannies. ...

 *This recipe isn't hard.  I just tell every little thing.) Recipes at the Top - Chit Chat at the bottom! Pepper Jelly (Surejell) (Printable View here) 14 various peppers, some sweet/some hot (50% hot peppers is good) 1 cup apple cider vinegar ½ teaspoon butter/margarine 1 box (regular-yellow box) Surejell (I only use that brand) 5 cups sugar, measured into a separate bowl Nitrile gloves for seeding/trimming the peppers. (Makes 6 pints of jam -I always use some 4 oz jars and 8 oz; washing up extras so I have enough just in case.  Any partial jar at the end can be refrigerated for a "test taster") Instructions Wash jars, lids and rings with soapy/hot water.   (New USDA guidelines say you don’t have to sterilize jars if you are processing for 10+ minutes.)   I use the dishwasher.   Once the dishwasher cycle is complete, I then start my recipe while the jars, etc. remain in the hot dishwasher until time to fill. ...