Sweet Potato Casserole

Don’t tell me you don’t like sweet potatoes. These aren’t your average sweet potatoes. This is really a desert but I serve it at dinner. I received this amazing recipe from my older sister a few years back. Every time I make it people ask for the recipe. You will want to double it and freeze the extra uncooked. It is amazing and yes my sister is an amazing cook.

3 C. cooked, mashed sweet potatoes (peel and boil just like regular potatoes)

1 1/4 C. white sugar                          2 eggs

dash of cinnamon                           3/4 C. butter

1 can sweetened condensed milk

Mix ingredients well. Pour into a buttered baking dish. Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees F.  uncovered. Remove and sprinkle topping of

1 C. crushed Ritz crackers

1 C. chopped pecans

1/2 C. brown sugar

1/2 stick of butter

melt butter and stir in brown sugar, add Ritz and nuts - mix well until crumbly.

Bake for another 15 minutes.

Lydia’s latest mess

Lydia had a little bit of fun while I was helping other kids try on new shoes.

a little Hershy’s syrup anyone?

Scared of Dresses

I am scared of dresses. Or at lest I am scared of making 5 dresses by Easter. Do you realize that Easter is in four weeks?!? I took my 6 kids to the fabric store yesterday and bought the stuff to make all my girls a dress for Easter. I let them all pick out the fabric they wanted. Well except Lydia but I am sure that she agrees with my choice. Really she does agree with me when I picked it up to show her she grabbed it.

  When we got home I got really scared. I just spent a lot of money and I don’t really know how to sew. I have never put in a  zipper before. Once I made two dresses and I put  buttons on the front. I had never done buttons before either and it wasn’t as hard as I thought that it would be. So I am hoping zippers are the same, not as hard as I think. If you are going to tell that they are even harder than I think you just might need to get over here and help me out.  How about if you know how to sew you just come on over and help me out anyway?

  The fabric is in the drier properly shrinking. And then I am going to iron them. Do you know I don’t iron. Probably if you have seen my family you already knew that. So today I am going to iron more than I have in two years combined. Then tonight when all the darlings are snuggled in bed I am going to cut out the fabric for one dress. I only have to sew one and a fourth dresses a week to get this done in time. I also bought some PUL fabric to make Lydia some new diaper covers and a wet bag.

Oh, I think the drier is done. I better dust off my iron and find my ironing board.

Sweet Potato Casserole

I have been getting a lot of requests for this recipe so I thought that I would share it here. Even though all of the recipes that I have posted thus far are very sweet I promise I do eat healthier fair most of the time.

Sweet Potato Casserole

3C. cooked and mashed Sweet potato (just peal and boil like regular potatoes)
1 1/4 C. white sugar
2 eggs
Dash of cinnamon
3/4 C. butter
1 can sweetened condensed milk

Mix ingredients well. Pour into a butter baking dish. Bake 20 minutes at 400 uncovered. Remove from oven and sprinkle with topping of

1 C crushed cornflakes (I use Ritz crackers)
1 C. chopped pecans
1/2 C. brown sugar
1/4 C. butter
Melt butter and stir in brown sugar, add corn flakes and nuts- mix well until crumbly. Bake for another 15 minutes. Enjoy!

Grace is 6!

Grace my sweet Grace Noel. My little christmas time finger sucking baby is 6. Six years old today. She slept through the night at 5 weeks of age, but she learned to climb out of her crib at 14m. She has given me many of scares and even more joy. I love her spunky attitude and her go get’em view on life.

Grace quit sucking her fingers for early this year but after six months I saw her sucking them again.

So I asked her, “Grace what are you doing?”

“OH, Mom,” she says, ” I was just faking you out.”

Really really Grace where do you get this stuff?

Happy 6th Birthday Grace!

New Tradition

I am so so excited for our new tradition this year.  See my wonderful mother in law buys all the grandkids an ornament everyone gets the same ornament meaning this year we will have 6 of the same ornament on our tree. It has been suggested to me that each child get a little tree of their our but then we would have 7 trees and that isn’t really gonna happen. So I have decided each child gets a ribbon above their bed or around their bed to hang their ornaments on. I am so excited I think it turned out really cute. They each get to show off their ornaments and have some decorations in their room. It is a win-win for everyone.Elizabeth was so excited to show off her ribbon of ornaments.

 

Fresh Blackberry Cake

 August is the time for blackberries. Nothing quiet says summer to me like blackberries. Fresh blackberry cake is a treat from my childhood. I enjoy it. My kids enjoy it. So I thought you might enjoy it, too. I would have taken a picture but well we ate it all up.

Fresh Blackberry Cake

2 1/4 C. sugar

2 eggs

 2 C. fresh blackberries

3 C. Flour I use whole wheat

1/4 tsp. salt

1/2 C. sour Milk

C/ butter

2 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. allspice

2 tsp. nutmeg

2 tsp. cinnamon

Combine sugar and spices; add melted butter and mix til creamy. Beat in whole eggs and sour milk. Sift flour, salt, and soda and gradually into mixture. Fold in blackberries.

 Pour into a well-greased 9×13 pan and bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.

Serve with whipped cream and garnish with whole berries. I like it still warm! I also like it slightly stale. Pretty much I just like it.

* You can use frozen berries if that’s what you have.