Oatmeal Cookies

Sooooo incredibly easy... my favorite kinds of recipes are simple, affordable, and delicious. These cookies fall into that category. My husband loves oatmeal raisin cookies, so I figured, since I had all the ingredients of typical oatmeal cookies in the house, I would make him some today. I started searching online for an easy recipe and struck gold when I landed on this bad boy on Cooks.com:

Bisquick Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

2 cups quick cooking oats

1 and 1/2 cups Bisquick

1 cup brown sugar, packed

1 cup raisins

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 and 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1 (5 and 1/3 oz) can of evaporated milk

Mix all ingredients together in order until moistened. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes. (I doubled this recipe & wound up with about 4 dozen rather large oatmeal cookies. You can always make yours smaller, but that's not how I roll. ;)

And if you bake cookies regularly and have a not so great oven, such as myself, you should know that to make the best, evenly cooked cookies, only bake one pan at a time. It's time consuming but oh-so-worth-it in the long run.

Anyone who knows me well, knows that I enjoy baking, I enjoy cooking, but things I do not enjoy include (but are certainly not limited to) spending lots of money on meals/desserts and spending tons of time in the kitchen. I prefer to spend very little money on delicious eats and prefer to spend my time with my family. So any and all recipes that I will share on my page will always be affordable and never time consuming. You can thank me later. ;)

Cupcakes, Scones, & Biscotti--Oh My!

I'm planning on starting my fall baking soon; it's a tradition of mine. :)

This year I want to try out some new recipes. Pumpkin Scones, Lemon Biscotti, & Apple cupcakes with old fashioned brown sugar icing. (The icing is new on the apple cake, but I have made the cake before & it is AMAZING.)

My question is.. which one should I try first? I've got everything for the biscotti, so that would be the logical choice. I love the smells of fall though, & as soon as I purchase a can of pumpkin & a bag of apples, I'll have the ingredients to make all three! Yummmm. Pictures will be posted of the final products, as well as recipes if they turn out as delicious as I think they will.

Wish me luck! (My goal is to make readers wish their computer screens were scratch & sniffs. haha! :)

My Reason For Blogging

So... I wanted to start a blog, because I have IDEAS. Ideas about baking, ideas about life in general--how it is and how it should be. (I love philosophy and sometimes, it might show.)

I love my life. And I don't mean for that to sound as cliche as I'm sure it did when you read it, but I truly adore everything about my life. My daughter, my husband, my family, my friends, my dogs... my little home. Sure, it could be bigger, but it's 'ours.' And I've learned to be grateful for what I have and to make the most of it. (No one likes a 'pity party host!')

Know what I really love about my little home besides the fact that my family lives here? My kitchen. It's my favorite room in the house. I love creating tasty meals and treats for my loved ones to share and give input on. So, that will probably be the main basis for this blog. Well... that, and my occasional 'life' rant. But who doesn't need an outlet? This space will be mine. :)