05-11-23 Rhubarb Dump Cake – with frozen sliced rhubarb and fresh berries cut up
05-14-23 Southern Vinegar Slaw
05-16-23 Strawberry Rhubarb Pie – with the last of 2021 frozen strawberries
06-03/03 Old Fashioned Rhubarb Pie – Classic Custard Style. Researched different custard style recipes and compared ingredients and methods. Ended up creating my own style which was a combine of several different recipes. Turned out excellent and was great. Spilled over the deep dish frozen pie shell so had to use a extra small pie plate that did not have any crust. Was due to the volume of chopped rhubarb fitting into the pie shell.
06-06/23 6 in 1 Sheet Pan Cookie Bars. Followed the recipe from The BakerMama for the six different kinds of cookies in one large sheet pan. Came out as expected. Tasted good but decided that in the future would prefer the cookies in the original separate recipes that I always make. Nothing wrong with this recipe but it seemed like that all tasted the same (as expected). Also seemed to be a lot of extra work to do six at one time but the concept of putting them all into one sheet pan is great. In the future I would just keep out 3/4 cup of each type and freeze into separate balls to then thaw and pat into one sheet pan.
06-09-23 Strawberry Rhubarb Pie – with quart of frozen strawberries from 2022 and fresh chopped rhubarb. Made for family reunion
06-09/23 Old Fashioned Rhubarb Pie – classic custard style – for the family reunion
06-2023 Sandwich Rye Bread with King Arthur rye flour. Was wanting a rye bread for making toast so tried the recipe form the KA website called Sandwich Rye Bread and used a bag of KA Rye flour I ordered on Amazon. Was disappointed in the taste (too mild) so will try again after exploring some different recipes for a dark version. Will have to find the Butterfly Bread dark rye recipe and try that recipe as an alternative.
07-14-2023 Pineapple Upside Down Cake with Betty Crocker Yellow Cake mix – had left over pineapple tidbits and crushed pineapple from making pizza. Used up the leftover crushed and tidbits and opened a new can of slices of pineapple. Did not have the maraschino cherries so it was not pretty but sure tasted good.
07-11-23 Blueberry Muffins – used a different recipe to make muffins. Tried the Jiffy Raspberry Muffins and a new recipe from
https://www.inspiredtaste.net/18982/our-favorite-easy-blueberry-muffin-recipe/
Need to find my family favorite recipe for muffins. These were OK but not great.
08-07-23 Blueberry Zucchini Squares – made this recipe since I was shredding zucchini from the garden for the freezer. Used dried blueberries and made the lemon glaze. Excellent, again.
08-2023 made sweet pickle relish with the huge cukes, frozen peppers, and frozen sweet peppers. Disappointed – the taste is off and the relish is very dark. Find the old recipe I used before. Made 5 jars. Will bet that I just throw these jars out due to disappointment in taste. Canned them anyway
08-2023 made new batch of sweet pickle relish with different recipe . Came out excellent. Used the recipe that I had in the recipe box that had the onions and cukes soaking in ice water and then drained and cooked down. Only made 3 half pints.
10/01/23 Apple Pie Bars from Wyse Guide (recipe found in a search) – was not impressed. Would not make this again. Not sure if it was the Spy apples from our orchard or what. Very crumbly and nothing special. Would just use my recipe for apple bars. Recipe only called for four apples. I normally put alot more apples into a recipe like this.
03/16/24 Apple Dump Cake – used a thawed bag of apple pie slices for a dump cake. Apple slices were from our trees and had been frozen in a bag in the barn freezer. Had thawed since the barn freezer stopped working and put the house freezer. They were refrozen and stored in the kitchen top freezer. Was not great and was more like a apple cobbler than a cake. Did not come out like a traditional dump cake but was still good. Better when added ice cream along with the cake.
11/10-24 Made Pumpkin Muffins – double batch from the celebratingsweets.com recipe to use up the two oldest cans of pumpkin from the pantry. Turned out very good. Did not use measured amount of pumpkin but used all there was in the can.
11/18/24 Baking again this morning – new recipes tried out
11-18-24 Apple Cinnamon Crumb Muffins from sallybakingaddition.com with some of the King Author cinnamon bits and the last of the granny smith apples that had been in the refrigerator for a while. Made a double batch. No topping so just muffins.
11-18/24 Peanut Butter Bars from celebratingsweets.com site. Attempting to use up all of the old jars of peanut butter that were bought in 2022. Turned out very greasy to me. Did not make the topping for the bars but did use parchment to make it easier to get out of the pan.