by Betsy | Jul 11, 2023
Coconut Ice Cream This creamy coconut ice cream recipe is a rich dessert you can make at home, with no ice cream maker required! This is something else my mother would make taking advantage of the coconuts we harvested from around 25 coconut trees around our property....
by Betsy | Jul 10, 2023
My Mother’s Birthday Cake This is the cake that made it so that I never ate cake at other kid’s birthday parties because they never measured up to my mother’s cake. It is so good and rich that frosting is overkill. It is also very easy to make. Just...
by Betsy | Jul 10, 2023
Banana Nut Bread My mother made this banana nut bread recipe when I was a kid. She added extra nutmeg to give it a more nutty flavor. I just couldn’t get enough. I don’t like bananas, and yet, I love this banana bread. When I make it, it is gone in no...
by Betsy | Jul 10, 2023
Avocado Ice Cream My mother always made this wonderful ice cream. We had four avocado trees that always yielded much more than we could eat. My mom filled bags and sent them to the neighbors. And she made ice cream. Ingredients 2 egg yolks 2 cups evaporated milk ½...
by Betsy | Jul 10, 2023
Apple Pie I first made this apple pie in Philadelphia back in the 1970s. Someone gave me a book called “Living on the Earth”, by Alicia Bay Laurel. A beautiful book all hand written and illustrated with line drawing. This woman had everything you needed to...
by Betsy | Jul 10, 2023
Desserts I wanted to cook desserts and make pastries since I was a kid. Watching my mother making eclairs, and cream puffs, birthday cakes, pineapple upside-down cakes, fruit cakes, napoleons, cake rolls, and much more made me want to cook too. By the time I was 10 I...
