Most Delicious Life
Food * Family * Fun
A mother and daughter sharing our best food, and our secrets to living the happy life with the goal of helping us all create a stronger family unit.
Sweet & Sour Chicken
The week after my first baby was born a few friends from church took turns bringing us dinner for a few nights. One of the meals brought to us was this sweet and sour chicken. It really hit the spot and has remained a family favorite for the last 22 years. I have...
NON-Pie Thanksgiving Desserts
Do like cake more than pie? Do you need other options besides pie on your Thanksgiving dessert table? Here are our favorites. Pumpkin Custard Cake is one of my absolute favs. My birthday is in October and growing up, I often requested this as my birthday cake. It has...
Pumpkin Cheesecake Squares
Growing up my mom would make Pumpkin Cream Pie for Thanksgiving. It is a delicious pumpkin mousse in a pie shell and topped with whipped cream. Simple and often guests would like it more than the original pumpkin pie. I had a friend who would come to our house for...
Pear & Goat Cheese Galette
I love a Galette because I love pie, and a galette is like a pie, but easier to put together. A galette can be sweet or savory. You could make a galette for the meal and another for dessert. hehehe If you want to use a purchased pie crust, make sure to buy a sheet and...
Pumpkin Spice Cake with Candied Pecans
Soon after I was married, my mother-in-law made a cookbook for our family. It is more than 27 years later and I still have not made everything in that book. And now she is gone and I cannot call her when I am making a new recipe from her book, that I haven't tried...
Irish Dingle Pie
Dingle Pie is an Irish Standard. It's from the Dingle Peninsula in the County Kerry. They were originally made with mutton and a lard crust into round hand pie so they were easy for farmers to eat in the field or fishermen on a fishing boat. Nowadays they are made...
Fry Bread
Growing up, the best part of my mom making jam, was that we would get to eat the fresh jam on hot fry bread after dinner. Now that I am a mom, I have NO idea HOW my mom had it in here to make fry bread after canning jam, but it did happen from time to time. In the...
Classic Chili
I always LOVED my mom's chili growing up. It was always good, and I never knew how easy it was to make till I was an adult and had children of my own. I never made a pot myself until I had children. A pot of chili would've been too much. However, I love freezer meals,...
Grandma Jenson’s Coffee Cake
This coffee cake is such a treat! It is THE BEST I have ever had. And like usual the best always comes from Grandma's kitchen. Start by mixing a teaspoon of baking powder into the buttermilk and set aside. In a separate bowl mix the flour, sugar and 2 tsps baking...
Peach Upside Down Cake
I LOVE peaches with all my heart! They are only my most favorite stone fruit. So, I thought that I should caramelize some peaches and add some butter cake. Another thing I love is pineapple upside down cake, so I knew I would love a peach upside down cake. Seriously,...