Apple Dumplings

Once again Pioneer Woman has done incredible damage to my half-hearted attempts to eat healthy and think about possibly considering to try and lose weight.
This time it’s apple dumplings.*
Allow me to digress for a bit. I’ve only had apple dumplings once in my life, at a local Renaissance Faire that I attended [...]

Banana Pineapple Bread

Another one from Tammy’s Recipes. I decided to try this because my husband is a huge fan of banana bread (actually, he’s pretty much a big fan of any quick-bread of that sort; pumpkin spice bread definitely comes to mind), and I was getting a smidge bored with my usual recipe. But adding [...]

Baked Spaghetti. Oh, my, yes indeed.

Another recipe from another blog, this time Tammy’s Recipes. This is her three-cheese baked spaghetti, a recipe she modified from another site.
I doubled her recipe, since I knew I’d like the leftovers. And I didn’t use feta cheese, but I did use mozzarella, Parmesan, and a little cheddar so it was still three-cheese.
It’s [...]

PW’s Bread Pudding

After such great success with Pioneer Woman’s lasagna, I had to try another of her recipes, but picking one is not an easy thing to do, and I will just say that someday I WILL make her cinnamon rolls. Perhaps after I’ve saved enough money to buy myself an entire new wardrobe because I’d [...]

PW’s Lasagna. It IS the Best. Ever.

No pictures, since they’d just pale in comparison to Pioneer Woman’s fantastic shots.
There was a lot of debate in the comments to her post about how this couldn’t be the best ever lasagna because it uses Jimmy Dean sausage and Kraft Parmesan cheese (in the can!). Frankly, I don’t really care. I had [...]