NEW on the blog: Recipe Index

Hi guys! It's an exciting blogging day for me today. It's the day I finally finished making a recipe index!

I've been wanting to make one forever, but there have always been other things to be done at home. I took advantage of the quiet with my big kids in school and our major house projects being done. I ignored the dishes and the laundry and made an index.

Just find the RECIPES tab and click on it.

Then you'll find a list (it might be a little long, I got carried away) of lots of categories of recipes.

Just click on one of them, like maybe APPETIZERS, DIPS, AND CHIPS...and it will take you to this.

There you'll find all of my favorite recipes for that category. I went through all the recipes on my blog and only included the ones that I love and still make.

So, that means that you have an organized list (with pictures) of my favorite recipes. Yay!

Hopefully you'll forgive me for my amateur photography, especially in the early years of my blog (est. 2008). I'd love to take some photography classes, but that will happen someday.

It was fun to go through all my recipes and remember them. I was amazed at how many chocolate chip cookie recipes that I'd blogged about. I deleted a few and left you my favorites.

I think I have more cookie recipes than anything on the blog. :) Yum!

I have lots of plans for other indexes to make my blog more organized. I know I have lots of posts floating around on my blog that I have forgotten about.

One more thing...I kept my Ultimate List of Dinner Ideas. It has links to my recipes, links to other recipes that I like and names of meals that my family likes so I can look at it and get ideas for planning meals. I refer to it all the time!

All righty then. Enjoy the recipe index! Thanks for being my blogging friend. :)

I better go do the laundry.

One Hour Rolls

These rolls are amazing! I've been making these rolls since 2001 when I was a newlywed and my sister-in-law shared the recipe with me. The rolls are light, fluffy, easy to make and they only take one hour! And delicious too! I've made these rolls more times than I can count, so I've perfected the art of making them. Here are some step-by-step instructions with pictures for you. Here's what you'll need. I buy pretty much all of the ingredients in this recipe at Sam's club, thus the huge containers. You need warm water, yeast, oil, sugar, salt, egg and flour. In the mixer bowl, add warm water (not hot), oil, sugar and yeast. Mix together. After ten or fifteen minutes the yeast mixture should be puffed up like this. Time to add the salt and beaten egg. Then mix in the flour. (I've used a mixture of half wheat and half white flour successfully.) Keep adding flour until the dough is manageable. It will be a little sticky, b

Week 394 Menu

Hi there! This week is flying by! So excited that we've been having blue skies and warmer weather. Our snow is almost all melted and little bulbs are sprouting in the flower beds. However, we had our 10th snow/ice day last week!!! Hopefully it was the last one. Life has been busy, busy and I need to plan out the rest of our week's menus, even though it's already Thursday. Here's what we've eaten so far and what I'm planning: Monday: chicken stirfry, rice/quinoa Tuesday: breakfast for dinner Wednesday: flatbread pizzas Thursday: roasted butternut squash, pasta, chicken sausage Friday: tacos Saturday: leftovers Sunday: pot roast, mashed potatoes, one hour rolls Alrighty, that's what we're eating this week. How about you? What's on your menu this week? Feel free to share. I love it when you do! More from Jenny:

Don't like your house to smell like food? I've got a kitchen tip for that!

I have a smallish, one story house and if I cook food that is kind of smelly, like onions, the smell tends to linger in every room. This is a pet peeve of mine and (also my husband's). Over the years I've found a few ways to cook smelly food without smelling up the kitchen. Use your garage! I use my garage quite often to cook things in. I open the window and it airs out, especially when you open the garage door. I'm sure my neighbors wonder what I'm cooking. I've used two different kitchen appliances in the garage: my crockpot and my food dehydrator. Crockpot - I did this very thing today since I'm simmering chicken, onions, carrots and celery to make chicken noodle soup tonight. I don't want my house to smell like onions all day, so I plugged it in on my husband's workbench. Food dehydrator - when I make jerky, I plug the food dehydrator in in the garage. I don't really want my house to smell like meat for hours

What is on your menu this week?

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