At Home My Way

* Because I hate scrolling down for the recipe, my recipes are AT THE TOP - comments are at the BOTTOM below!  :)) *I love sharing recipes at Weekend Potluck.  This week is Weekend Potluck #284 .  Come find ME and lots of other fantastic recipes HERE !  Super Easy Crockpot Granola 4 cups old fashioned rolled oats 1 cup raw nuts (almonds, pecans, walnuts, etc.)  (I only had about 2/3 cup) (nuts could be omitted all together) 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup oil (olive oil or melted coconut oil) (I used coconut oil) 1/2 cup liquid sweetener, such as maple syrup, honey, agave syrup)  (I used maple syrup) 1 Tablespoon vanilla Add-ins for after cooking (dried fruit such as dried blueberries, cranberries, raisins, apricots, apples) Super Easy Instructions: Spray or lightly oil the sides and bottom of crockpot. In a small bowl/mug, mix the liquid sweetener (maple syrup), liquid oil (melted coconut oil...

We have a great little cookie bakery in the town where I work called "Hot Box Cookies".  The cookies are heavy, moist, and fantastic!  We only get Hot Box Cookies on super special occasions and one of the guys at work had a birthday complete with some Hot Box Cookies not too long ago.  One of my favorites is the Red Velvet White Chocolate Chip cookies that they have so I set out recently to come up with a recipe that I could make at home. Wouldn't you know it, I had everything I needed except butter.  Typical in my kitchen!  I did have some coconut oil which I sometimes use as a replacement for the fat in my recipes and/or in my soap making.  I decided to just use coconut oil instead of butter in my cookie recipe.  It was amazing!  I liked them so much that I decided to only make this recipe with coconut oil.  The cookies turned out nice and fat, crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside.  So good!  I am definitely going to...