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Shortbread Crust

Shortbread Crust is made with your hands, not a rolling pin. Pat the dough around the pie plate into a crust. It tastes just like a shortbread cookie. Perfect for cream pies. EASY SHORTBREAD CRUST The shortbread crust is so easy to make and is a perfect place to start if you are new to or afraid of making pie dough. Are you intimidated when it comes to making a homemade pie crust, or are you just looking for an easy pie crust recipe? I am often told, "I made pie dough one time, and it turned out to be one big mess," so I just keep buying the ready made ones.

Easy Strawberry Pie {In An Easy Homemade Buttery Shortbread Crust}

Diner Style Strawberry Pie , easy to make and made with few ingredients, fresh strawberries, strawberry jello, cook and serve pudding, and don't forget the homemade whipped cream!  The shortbread pie crust is just as easy.   Time to make some Easy Diner Style Strawberry Pie in an Easy Homemade Buttery Shortbread Crust .

Iced Coffee {A Homemade Version to Satisfy Your Coffee Addiction}

When it is hot outside, and you are thinking about stopping by the nearest Starbucks to get one of their cold caffeine pick me ups, remember this delicious recipe for  Iced Coffee. Everything you may be familiar with about brewing coffee, might be the fast brew method which extracts the flavor elements quickly.

Shepherd's Pie with Garlic Mash Potatoes {aka Hamburger Pie in our family}

We love dishes that are easy quick for weeknight dinners. Hamburger Pie with Garlic Mashed Potatoes may come to be one of your favorites for just that!  Hearty, warm and cozy layer of seasoned hamburger topped with fluffy mashed potatoes.  If you are always looking for new recipes that are inexpensive, easy to make, and your family will enjoy, then you are with the rest of us. Children can be picky so finding something that they'll eat can be a challenging task. You usually can't go wrong with hamburger, here is a recipe with a hamburger twist. Hamburger Pie with Garlic Mashed Potatoes  is an old family favorite, so why not give it a try, see if you like it too.  It looks like a Shepherd's Pie and taste like a Cheeseburger!

King's Hawaiian French Toast

King's Hawaiian French Toast,  thick slightly sweet bread dipped in egg-milk mixture and lay in a hot skillet with melted butter and brown until golden.  With the perfect sweetness of the bread, a little syrup is necessary! What is it, you see these recipes and you keep thinking you are going to make them and then they are forgotten.

Granny's Buttermilk Pound Cake

The Buttermilk Pound Cake recipe goes way back to the 50s when my Mother started making it. The star of the pound cake is the buttermilk. One of my favorite and dearest recipes my Mother passed down to me is this delicious Lemon Buttermilk Pound Cake . 

Chicken Cacciatore

Chicken Cacciatore , a perfect dish to make for any gathering. You can use a whole cut up chicken or your favorite chicken parts! Posting another chicken recipe was not what I planned to do, but here lately we have been eating out of the freezer, and I had several whole chickens, chicken thighs, and breast from buying them on sale.

Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

Homemade Chicken Noodle , made from scratch, brimming with wholesome chicken and plenty of carrots and egg noodles.  Simply nourishing! We have had a good bit of cold weather, and not to mention snow this year that gets me in the mood to make homemade soup often. Chicken Noodle Soup is one of my favorite soups to make, even though when I get ready to make it, I usually reach for the venison meat or beef roasts, thinking it is quicker and easier. Actually, it is not -- you use as few ingredients or in some cases the same, and what is great also is that I do the one pot method. I slowly cook a whole chicken in a stock pot and removed it while I cook the vegetables in that wonderful chicken broth. I used ready available vegetables that I have on hand like celery, onions, carrots, and this time I happened to have some leeks, which I love in soup.  Then I added the big chunks of chicken back in with the noodles and simmered it for awhile. There is something