At Home My Way

Small Batch  Old Fashioned Vanilla Cupcakes (Makes 12) Cupcakes : 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (I use unbleached.) 1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup (1 stick) melted butter 3/4 cup sugar 2 large eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 cup buttermilk (I used 1/2 cup milk + 1 teaspoon lemon juice-that rested a few minutes - or just milk will work fine.) Sprinkles optional-you can mix some into the batter for the confetti experience, top the frosted cupcakes with sprinkles or just omit sprinkles like I did. Frosting (Any frosting will do.  I don't typically use a recipe and just measure with my heart but these are the ingredients and amounts that I used for last night's cupcakes.): Frosting: 4 teaspoons melted butter 1/4 cup baking cocoa pinch of salt 2 cups powdered sugar 2 Tablespoons milk Instructions : Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cake: Combine the cake ingredients in a mixing bowl and "beat" with a hand mixer for 2-3 minutes. until fluff.  Scoop i...

Remember in children's book " The Little Red Hen " when she said, "Who will help me carry the wheat to the mill?" and her friends replied, "not I" said the goose; "not I" said the cat; and "not I" said the dog.  Being the city girl that I am, I never fully understood how the heck the Little Red Hen got soft fluffy flour from golden grass-like stalks of wheat. YouTube to the rescue!  Now I know and so can you.  Join me as I begin my journey baking bread with fresh ground wheat AT HOME MY WAY!   Recipes at the Top:  Chit Chat at the Bottom  No Knead Bread  Using Fresh Ground Wheat (Printable View HERE) "No Knead means no kneading!  It means stirring with a spoon like you do a bowl of brownie mix.  That's what I'm talking about!" 3 1/2 cups Hard White Wheatberries (wheatberries aren't milled yet)  ( This will make about app. 4 1/2 cups of flour. You only need 3 1/2 cups of freshly milled flour for this recipe .) 2...

  Do you have some stale buns or bread in your pantry?  Don't throw them away!  Turn those babies into delicious  Homemade Bread Pudding .  We love it  hot  served with vanilla ice cream or  cold  served with whipped cream. (You can sub in any fruit of your choice.  I regularly have applesauce so used that plus a soft apple that was languishing in the fruit bowl for this batch.)  Don't let these humble beginnings cause you to pass this by.  This dessert is moist and full of old timey goodness.   Here's how I make Applesauce Bread Pudding AT HOME MY WAY  : Applesauce Bread Pudding (PRINTABLE RECIPE HERE)   Ingredients:  12 slices of stale bread (cubed or torn into small pieces) (I used a full pack of stale hotdog buns for this recipe.) 2 Tablespoons margarine/butter (melted) or oil 2 cups applesauce  3 cups milk 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup sugar 4 eggs (I actually used 3 this time a...

I remember eating this recipe for peach cobbler a LOT when I was growing up.  It seems like we always had dessert - a couple of times a week anyway.  We ate lots of chocolate pudding  on homemade biscuits ; chocolate cakes, and this recipe for peach cobbler. This recipe is a dump type recipe (but no cake mix is involved).  It turns out ooey-gooey and just wonderful!  I love it hot or cold.  When I was little I remember loving the gooey dough part the best, but now I love it all!   This is an easy recipe to throw together while you are cooking supper.  It bakes in the oven for about 45 minutes to an hour.  I think my mom even made this with fruit cocktail, which would also be delish, or even canned and pitted plums, which I want to try.  But we usually just had it with canned peaches.   When I made this recipe recently, I used my own home canned peaches (one pint jar).   Here's how I make Peach Cobbler 1-2-3 AT HOME ...

My mom used to make these cookies for my brother and I when we were growing up.  They continue to be our favorite cookie!  Typically she made them during the Christmas holidays but we love them any time.  They are great for summer treats because you don't have to use the oven.  They aren't super healthy, but with ingredients like oatmeal and peanut butter, I have determined (ha!) that they aren't such a bad choice.  Certainly they are a better choice than boxed cookies, right? I have made another recipe for these cookies.  Recipes for this cookie are all over the place.  The last recipe I made was a flop!  They didn't set up.  That was so disappointing!  I decided that, "Mama knows best" and dug out my mom's recipe for these cookies.  I followed her instructions to a T and they worked like a charm.  Definitely do it exactly like it says.  Who wants a flop recipe?  Not me! The only thing that I chang...