Author: Melanie Eccles

Chocolate Coconut Cookies Dessert Oatmeal

Cowboy Cookies

aka: chunky oatmeal chocolate chip cookies   This recipe is fanTASTIC! My husband absolutely loved them (which is saying something because he loves all my cookies and gets to eat them quite frequently. But he really raved over these!) They’re the perfect everything–hearty, crisp, chewy, sweet, unexpected.  The old fashioned oats add a great texture […]

Cookies Cream Cheese Dessert Fruit

Fruit Pizza

also known as “gigantic sugar cookie with cream cheese frosting and fruit ornamentation.” We were having one of our teen’s families over to dinner after church. It was going to be casual–burgers, salad, potato wedges (though I had to do homemade burger patties, and homemade buns, and homemade potato wedges). I asked our guest of honor for […]

Dessert Ice Cream

Vanilla Ice Cream

My one word of advice to myself: don’t skimp on quality ingredients. When you have so few components and the main flavor is vanilla then by all means use REAL vanilla extract.  And maybe splurge for a whole vanilla bean.  But that’s for another recipe.  This perfectly simple vanilla ice cream recipe comes to me from the Cuisinart Ice […]

Chocolate Cookies Peanut Butter

No Bake Cookies

No Bake Cookies: Revisited. I can’t believe I don’t make these little gems more often.  They are incredibly simple. so fast. so delicious.  Assuming, of course, that you love chocolate and peanut butter.  Which I do.  I had to do some editing to this recipe from the original format.  First, I doubled the ingredients–because who […]

Appetizer Side Dish Snack

Homemade Popcorn

I love me some popcorn. Always have, always will. I think I’ll blame my love for popcorn on my dad. He has popped a bag of Act II almost every night for as long as I can remember. I know it’s a healthy snack–if done right. And “butter lovers” probably isn’t the best option. I’ve […]

To Do List

To Make and Bake::Link Love 2.4

How lame am I? I almost feel like a homemaker hypocrite. For emphasizing all the homemade goodness, but then going out and buying a HUGE box of ActII Butter Microwave Popcorn from Sam’s Club? And enjoying every last kernel. Ok, so I could possibly blame it on my upbringing. I was conditioned to love the […]

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To Do List: Link Love 2.5

I think I might as well just copy every post of Annie’s from this last week. She’s brilliant. And always seems to know exactly what I want to make. Like these Turkey Burgers (YUM!) or this Berry Crostata (beautiful!) or this Strawberry Ice Cream–the last in her July Ice Cream Month Series (sad day, but so, […]

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