Recipe: Apple spice cake

I have always wanted to make an apple spice cake, but I've never tried. I have several family members who can make an apple spice cake, and I've always found it to be the perfect fall recipe. It tastes wonderful with coffee, and it will make your house smell amazing!

As always, I like to use recipes that only use pantry staples. Most commercially printed cookbooks these days contain recipes with hard to find ingredients and I have a hard time being able to buy all the ingredients. This is why I love church cookbooks and old cookbooks :)

The only thing I changed was not using the walnuts. I have some friends who are allergic to tree nuts and wouldn't be able to enjoy this recipe. I also used an 8x8 nonstick pan instead of a bundt pan. You can also make muffins with this. The top of the cake is just brown sugar and cinnamon.

Here is the recipe for apple spice cake. I hope you enjoy it! As always, right click the card to save to your computer. For best results, change your paper size to 5x7 and print on an index card.

Recipe: Baked Zucchini and Cheese

We were given some zucchini earlier this week by my father-in-law. I have to confess, I'd only ever eaten zucchini fried or baked into zucchini bread. A friend of mine gave me this super easy recipe and it was delicious. My family enjoyed it so much that I didn't even get pictures until someone had already been sampling :) To make this, you just wash and slice the zucchini. Then, you pour olive oil into a glass baking pan. Line your pan with zucchini. Sprinkle garlic powder and pepper on the slices, and then cover the slices in mozzarella cheese. Cover and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Recipe: Southern Skillet Fried Chicken

I realized this week that it has been FOR.EV.ER. since I posted a recipe! I used to post two of them a week, so I can't believe this. I decided to redeem myself and get some cookin' done! I decided to share my super easy skillet fried chicken recipe.

All you need is thawed chicken (either breast or tenderloins), all-purpose flour, margarine, and eggs.

I started by heating some margarine in my skillet on medium heat. Then, I dipped my chicken tenders in some whisked eggs. I rolled them in flour, and then I dropped them into the skillet.

After that, just make sure the internal temperature reaches 170 to 180 degrees. Keep it on medium heat, though, because if you don't, the outside of the chicken will be burned before the inside is cooked.


The flavor was awesome. You should totally make this!

Linking to Stonegable and French Country Cottage!

As always, here is your handy-dandy printable recipe card. For best results, right click on the card and save it to your computer prior to printing. To print on a 5X7 index card, change your paper size to 5x7. 

Linking to Stonegable, Worthing Court, Cedar Hill Farmhouse, Confessions of a Plate Addict, and French Country Cottage! 

Recipe: Sunday Brunch Casserole

Boy, does it feel good to be back! Teachers often find the last few weeks of school are the busiest and most stressful. That was definitely true to me, so I took the past two weeks off from blogging. I'm glad to be back with you- I feel like a farm boy happy to be back in the tractor seat. 

I can already tell you pictures of this dish won't be very pretty. Don't judge the book by its cover- for all the ugliness it has, the flavor is spectacular. This dish contains some of my favorite things- sausage, cheese and eggs. I appropriately made this dish for my family on Sunday morning. My husband immediately commented that it would make a great cold-weather food. 

Recipes: easy baked ziti

We love Italian food at our house. My husband and I have two restaurants we frequent, and both have amazing food. One of them has a baked ziti my husband always orders. It's delicious, and I've been trying to find a similar recipe for a long time. I wouldn't dare say my ziti is anywhere close to the restaurant's, but it is pretty darn good. I made it for my husband recently and he definitely gave his approval.

It's fairly easy and cheap to make. All you need are cooked ziti noodles, shredded mozzerella, Ricotta cheese, and some alfredo sauce (store bought is fine- I used Classico).

Forgive me, but I only took one picture...and not a very appetizing one. Trust me when I say this is VERY good.



As always, here is the recipe card. Right click on it and hit "save" to save it on your desktop. To print it on a 5X7 recipe card, change your printer paper size to 5X7.

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Recipe: Easy country style steak with mushroom gravy

This recipe was my childhood favorite. My mother used to make this all the time when I was growing up. It's a great recipe because it is easy, but also because there are several different ways to make it and you can't ruin it. It's also pretty cheap to make. If you know me, you know things that are cheap and things that are easy are right up my alley.

First, pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees, so it will be ready when you finish preparing the meat.
Warm vegetable oil or vegetable shortening in a nonstick skillet on medium heat.
Next, roll thawed out cube steak in flour, salt, and pepper. Make sure both sides of your meat are well-coated.

Then, brown the meat lightly on both sides in the vegetable shortening/oil. You don't want to thoroughly cook it, but simply just brown it.

Next, mix two cans of cream of mushroom soup and one can of milk in a 9X10 glass baking dish. Make sure the mixture is thoroughly mixed.
Add the browned meat to the mixture and cover it with aluminum foil.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes, or until the meat is 170 degrees Fahrenheit in the center.

Note: You can also make this dish in the crockpot, by cooking it on low for 6 hours. Another option is to pour the gravy into the skillet, (after browning the meat), and let it simmer, rather than baking it in the oven.

As always, you can download the recipe card below by right clicking on it, and saving it to the desired folder on your computer. To print on a recipe card, please make sure your paper size is set to 5X7 prior to printing.

I hope you enjoy this recipe!

Recipes: Easy pan-seared pork chops

Two weeks ago, I posted a recipe for brown sugar glazed pork chops. Today, I am posting another recipe for pork chops. I promise, we do eat things that aren't pork chops. As you well know, I am constantly on the search for low-cost, easy to make ideas for dinner.