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I've found some interesting food fare over at Pinterest. The link will take you to my In The Kitchen Pinterest board. If you click on the picture it will take you to another page, in the top right hand side there will be  link to the original site if you are looking for a recipe from my pins.

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The Best Ever Sugar Cookies

It's been some time since I've posted. In the last year I've not done a lot of from scratch cooking that is new or been eventful. I really do need to get back to it. I'm concentrating more on providing the kids with more nutritious from scratch cooking, so I should be posting here more and hopefully that will keep me motivated to post more.

The last two years I've been stuck in a rut because frankly, I hated that cooking and baking because such a chore because I had to cook all the time. I tried getting the kids involved but it just turned to chaos and I threw up my hands and gave up.

Well, no more. I'm going to do this and do this and make it fun. Kale has been a much bigger help recently in the kitchen besides just putting dishes away. He's really wanting to get in there and learn and this just may be the learning adventure we are both looking for. He's started baking, well doing the mixing part. He's a pro at making his own lunch or salad to go with our dinner. It's getting quite fabulous, so I can say that he's inspiring me to get back to my cooking roots!

We tried some new cookies for Valentine's Day, H and I don't really celebrate a day of love since we love each other everyday. But the kids like it and think it's special, so we do things with them like makes cards and bake cookies.

We used The Best-Ever Sugar Cookies from Taste of Home and they were so good. They weren't too sweet and they weren't the usual dried out sugar cookies we usually end up making. They were soft and fluffy and had the perfect taste. I'm thinking of making them again.

Lady Ashburningham Pickles.

6 large cukes, peeled, seeded & cut into chunks

2lbs. onions, cut fine

1/4 cup coarse salt

2 cups vinegar

2 cups sugar
3 tbsp flour
1 tbsp mustard
1 tbsp turmeric
1 tsp mustard seed
1 tsp celery seed

3 red or green onion (optional)

Cut cucumbers into chunks. Place in large bowl. Sprinkle with coarse salt & fill with water to cover. Let stand overnight.

In morning, drain well, place in a large pot and add onions and other ingredients. Cook on medium heat for one hour.

Ladle into sterilized jars, cover & process in boiling water for 10 minutes. Remove, check seal and store in a dark cool place.

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I made this over the weekend. My Dad got the recipe from my best friends mother. He instructed and I did it all and it worked out well. I've always like that smell of canning relishes.

My Dad is a big gardener and always has a big harvest.

I'll put up some pictures of it later, once I download them from my camera.

Chocolate Eclair Cake

I found this recipe on Kraft.ca when doing a search for a dessert to make for a function I was attending. It was quite yummy.

1 pkg. instant vanilla pudding

1 1/2 cups of milk

3 cups of cool whip

27 graham crackers

1 cup of chocolate frosting

Mix pudding mix with milk. Let sit 5 minutes then add the cool whip.

Layer graham crackers, pudding, crackers, pudding, crackers in an 8 x 8 pan, 3 layers of 9 crackers.

Put in fridge for 3 hours. Frost before serving.

I let mine sit overnight and the crackers were very soft, it's was very good!

Garden 2009

My first spagetti squash.

The corner garden I put in this year.

New box I put in as well, the end is Kale from the cabbage family.

Tomatoes

Banana Peppers (not hot)

Potatoes 12 plants this year.

Peas

Cauliflower

Carrots at the front, then the broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, beans and peas. All the spinach that was beside the carrots got ate up. All a bit of green onions there at the front as well.

The strawberry patch I put int, you'll notice a CatStop there. I had a cat using it for it's bathroom for a bit there but it's not been back in a bit.

The Military Wives' Cookbook

I received a copy of this pink camo covered cookbook to review. I was surprised at how much I liked it besides being pink it was fill with information, quotes and tidbits before each recipe about the history of the military.Though I'm not much of a military buff, the information is geared toward the wives of military men which is very interesting.

The cookbook is divided into categories and then put into menus as a display for bridal showers to tea parties to large dinners with many guests. It's a really very charming cookbook to read.

There is every variety of recipes in this book from traditional baking recipes to international fair. There are many recipes in this book that I would like to try, I've only had the opportunity to use one so far and it was a Pineapple Punch which was really quite delicious!

The Menu under Teas and Coffees was Sunrise Coffee and it included the following recipes

Quiche Lorraine

Golden Sunrise Muffins

Crumb-Toppped Apple Coffee Cake

Seasonal Fresh Fruit Tray

Fresh Fruit Dip

Assorted Fruit Juices

Coffee

Tea

Pineapple Punch

Under this menu alone, there are a few recipes I would like to test out and give a taste. I really look forward to using this cookbook in the future.