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Mar 25, 20223 min read
Comfort Food During the 2022 Winter of Chaos With Grilled Cheese and Homemade Tomato Soup
With all the chaos and uncertainty around us this winter, as well as record breaking temperatures nationwide and ridiculous amounts of...
Dec 18, 20204 min read
Great Grandmother’s Famous Butter Cookies and the Best 2020 Homemade Christmas, Chanukah, and Specialty Disney and U.S. States Cookies For Games To Play and Times to Share, With the Best Ways to Mail
GG (Great Grandmother) Frieda, my mother, was a great cook and an even greater baker. Our home was overflowing with food and sweets as...
Jun 24, 20204 min read
Rainbow Bread to Enjoy On Our Way to Reach “Somewhere Over The Rainbow”
Times are hard right now for all of us. There is a perfect song for this time,“Somewhere over the Rainbow” from Wizard of Oz. If you have...
Feb 12, 20203 min read
Valentine’s Day 2020With GG’s (Great Grandmother) Cookie Recipe or David’s Cookies
This Grandma realized several years ago that greeting cards and stamps for mailing are getting so expensive that it is not much more to...
Jan 15, 20203 min read
Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bowls Made Hard . . . Or the Easy Way . . . With Grandchildren of All Ages
Our grandchildren love raw cookie dough. It was so difficult when we first had the raw egg scare and then the uncooked flour scare. See...
Dec 4, 20194 min read
Missing Thanksgiving Magic – Cookie Bars — and Significant Family Presence
This Thanksgiving our youngest daughter, our son-in-law, and their three of our precious grandchildren did not make it to Florida. Our...
Nov 13, 20193 min read
Fake Food Now Extends to Tomato Soup and Grilled Cheese When the Real Thing is Grandchildren’s Favor
Grandpa and I just returned from Sicily and Malta, where farm to table is the norm. The food was natural and fresh with no...
Aug 7, 20192 min read
Fast and Easy Chocolate Mug Cake to Make in the Microwave With Grandchildren
According to the recipe for Chocolate Mug Cake reprinted in the New York Times, March 28, 2019, “if you google ‘mug cake,’ you’ll get...
May 15, 20192 min read
All Grandmas Have A Magic Recipe That Even Children Not Their Own Grandchildren Love and Here is a Favorite For Magic Cookie Bars
Our oldest grandchildren were excited to visit us in Florida for spring break, and were even more excited that our younger...
Mar 6, 20183 min read
Two Best Baked Apple Recipes With No Added Sugar For Toddlers To Adults
We know sugar is our enemy. As a post menopausal woman, I was advised that my body could not process sugar but could process fat, and...
Jan 9, 20183 min read
Best Easy Make Ahead Baked French Toast For Holiday Brunches And Five More Special French Toast Reci
One of the most requested breakfasts from our grandchildren is for this Grandma to make french toast, especially on a school day, where...
Dec 1, 20173 min read
Safely Making Homemade Cookie Dough and Adding It to Safe Homemade Ice Cream
Making homemade slime was the activity of choice among grandchildren recently. It was messy and disgusting, but that goes in grandma’s...
Nov 16, 20174 min read
How to Celebrate the Month of November’s National Sandwich Day With Grandchildren
November 3 each year is National Sandwich Day. There seems to be a day for everything celebrated in our country, and we can use each...
Feb 10, 20177 min read
Comfort Food “Whatever You Want Soup” and “Adult Soup” That We Grandmas May Cook With Our Grandchildren But Must Forbid Them To Eat
When this Grandma was a child a pot of soup was always on the stove in our house. GG (great grandmother, my mother) came from a time and...
Jan 13, 20174 min read
Chocolate for Anti Aging and Easy Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Bread Pudding Recipes from Great Great Grandmother to the Present
Advertised as a great holiday present, this Grandma notes anything chocolate is a great present. But anti-aging chocolate? I could not...
Nov 25, 20162 min read
Banana Everything Cookies Means They Are Vegan and Healthy. . .Sort Of
Lately, banana is a key ingredient in recipes this Grandma has found. Of course, fruit in a cookie makes it healthy, according to...
Jul 14, 20162 min read
Pillsbury and the Girl Scouts Make and Give Us Grandmas A Sweet Deal
This past week Grandpa and I visited the grandchildren before they left for sleep away camp. Their parents have become obsessed with...
Mar 5, 20162 min read
Adult Guilty Pleasure With Velvetta Queso Dip and What To Do With the Leftover Velvetta After Making the Best Mac And Cheese For Grandchildren
Our grandchildren love California Pizza Kitchen’s mac and cheese. This Grandma went on a hunt to try to replicate it and found a recipe...
Dec 31, 20154 min read
Cookie Exchanges Are Abundant in Holiday Season With Cookie Recipes For Every State and Every Grandma To Make Or Buy the Best for Grandchildren
Last evening a dear long (we never say old) friend said she was invited to a cookie exchange. She declined, as this Grandma would, as we...
Dec 15, 20154 min read
Grandmas Love National Cookie Day Every Day And Here Are Cookie Recipes and Two Back Stories About Cookies To Share With Grandchildren Including the Coveted Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Our youngest daughter’s first word was “cookie.” This Grandma is convinced it was due to GG (her grandmother) caring for her regularly...
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