Classic Banana Bread

1/2 C. Soft butter or margarine
1/2 C. honey
2 eggs
1 1/3 C. mashed ripe bananas (3-4 medium)
1 tsp milk
1 tsp vanilla
2 C. of unsifted all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 C. chopped nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs. Mix mashed bananas, milk & vanilla. Mix flour, salt, and baking soda. Blend in alternating flour and banana mixture. Stir in nuts. Turn into greased 9" by 5" by 3" loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until knife inserted into center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before turning out of pan.

​Yield: 1 loaf

Recipe: Granny K's Basic White Bread

1/2 cup Milk

1 1/2 Tbsp Honey

2 tsp Salt

3 Tbsp Butter

2 eggs

2 packages Dry Yeast

1 1/2 cup warm Water

5 to 6 cups of all purpose flour

Take 1 1/2 cups of hot tap water and add 1/2 cup milk and 1 1/2 Tbsp honey, this should just feel hot to your fingers, not burn them, just extra warm.

Add 2 packages of dry yeast. 

Mix this well with large spoon and add salt, butter, and 2 eggs. 

Mix well, add half the flour and mix well again then let set for 5 minutes.

Now stir in enough flour that it gets hard to mix with spoon then turn out onto a floured board.

Start a timer for 10 minutes. Knead and add flour only as needed but knead for the full 10 minutes.

Put into a greased bowl, cover with saran wrap and a towel until it doubles in bulk.

Knead down and make into loafs or rolls or whatever.

Let rise until it is as high as you want from 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Bake at 350 degrees. For bread 30-35 minutes, For rolls 20-25 minutes. Test by knocking on the crust to see if it sound hollow.

Recipe: Sour Cream Raisin Pie

Very old pie you just don't hear about anymore. The base recipe is over 100 years old, I had to tweak the meringue due to most people just not knowing how to make it without more information. Plus I cheated and used store purchased crust.

1 8" pie crust (refrigerator section of grocery store)

1 cup Sour Cream

1/2 cup seeded raisins, finely chopped

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp cloves

pinch of salt 

1/2 cup sugar  + 1/3 cup sugar

3 eggs

3/4 tsp cornstarch

Pre-bake the pie crust according to instructions on box. 

Separate the yolks from the whites on the eggs, reserving the whites on the side for the meringue.

  Beat the egg yolks and mix with the sour cream, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, salt, and sugar. 

Cook until thick, stirring constantly so as not to burn. 

Pour into pre-baked pie shell.

Mix the 1/3 cup sugar with the 3/4 tsp cornstarch in a small bowl. 

Prepare meringue with the 3 egg whites by mixing on high speed while slowly adding the sugar/cornstarch mix until stiff peaks form.

Pour meringue over raisin mix, filling crust to the very edges.

Bake at 400 degrees until slightly browned.

Spectacular Egg Rolls

My husband won't touch Eggrolls at a Chinese Restaurant. He doesn't like them. Personally, they taste old and frozen. So I started making my own. Since they are easy finger food, I made them for a party, my brother told me that his kids wouldn't eat them and that he himself was not fond of them. Luckily he took one bite and then started making the children take bites and before you know it the plate was empty. You just gotta give these a try!

Extremely simple ingredients. 

• Sausage
• Carrots
• Nappa Cabbage
• Egg Roll wraps
• your choice of cooking oil. I use Canola.

Dice the carrots fine.

Finely chop the Nappa Cabbage

Brown the sausage

Add the carrots and cabbage to the sausage and fry until carrots are tender, stirring and turning often.

Lay egg roll wrappers with one corner pointing toward you

 and have a small dish of water standing by.

Start the fold.

Dip your finger into the water and wet the last corner so that it sticks when folded down.

Like this

Heat oil and fry until golden brown.

OH, don't forget the Sriracha Hot Sauce. ;)

Bet you can't eat just one!

We actually eat them as a meal.