“The beans and garlic butter can be prepared up to 2 days in advance.”

serves 8
You might need to buy:
  • Salt
  • Ground black pepper

“No-Boil Sweet Potatoes

Boiling sweet potatoes in lots of liquid—as you would regular potatoes—is not a good idea. Sweet potatoes will soak up too much water, and the resulting mash will be a soggy mess. Better to cook them in a small amount of of liquid. Just 2 tablespoons of heavy cream (plus a little butter), along with the water released from the sweet potatoes as they cook, is enough to steam them into tenderness."

This recipe can be doubled and prepared in a Dutch oven, but the cooking time will need to be doubled as well.

serves 4
You might need to buy:
  • heavy cream
  • Table salt and ground black pepper
  • sugar
Belongs to JulieW8 Caramel Taffy 
You might need to buy:
  • sweetened condensed milk
  • white corn syrup
  • vanilla
Belongs to JulieW8 Caramel Corn 

A childhood favorite

You might need to buy:
  • white corn syrup
  • water
  • cream tartar
  • butter
  • Popped popcorn

Chewy and yummy cookie that’s mostly oatmeal. Instead of or in addition to raisins, try dried cranberries and/or cherries.

ready in about 30 minutes
You might need to buy:
  • uncooked rolled oats
  • vanilla
  • milk
  • eggs
  • packed brown sugar
  • chunk-style peanut butter
  • butter
  • salt
  • baking sode
  • semisweet chocolate chips
Belongs to JulieW8 Texas Cake 

Always a kid pleaser and easy to make.

ready in about 30 minutes
You might need to buy:
  • soda
  • salt
  • white sugar
  • water or leftover coffee
  • baker's cocoa
  • eggs
  • buttermilk
  • vanilla

I found this in nmy recipe box, photocopied, originally written on Los Angeles Firemen’s Credit Union notepad. I have no idea where it came from!

You might need to buy:
  • evaporated milk
  • german chocolate cake mix
  • melted butter
  • chopped nuts
  • semisweet chocolate bits
Belongs to JulieW8 Monkey Bread 

This is my most-requested baked good aside from cheesecake.

You might need to buy:
  • salt
  • sugar
  • lukewarm water
  • melted shortening or Crisco oil
  • melted butter

Easy, cake-like cookie that kids just love.

ready in about 30 minutes
You might need to buy:
  • white sugar
  • shortening
  • eggs
  • soda in 1 T hot water
  • salt
  • vanilla
  • cream tartar
  • milk or buttermilk
  • chocolate chips as desired
  • Nuts if desired
  • oatmeal if desired
You might need to buy:
  • milk
  • egg
  • all-purpose flour
  • baking powder
  • whipped cream or vanilla ice cream