This is a great little something from my mother-in-law. It can be as spicy as you want by just using your favorite type of salsa.
Thanks Karen!
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Category Archives: Brown Sugar
Sweet Oatmeal Muffins
These are some of my favorite muffins ever! With butter on top, the brown sugar in the muffins gives it almost a carmel taste. –Mellyn
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Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
From Julie L.
We grew up eating these delicious oatmeal cookies! Now I prefer to skip the shortening and use beans instead –it makes me feel like I’m eating health food! I usually double the batch and freeze the extras for cookies on demand. It makes the texture less crunchy and more chewy. So good! –Mellyn
Pumpkin Pecan Muffins
Pecan Crisps
As close to shortbread as you can get without the butter! Of course if I have butter on hand I do indulge myself once in a while and use butter instead of shortening.
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Chewy Granola Bars
From Sharon C.
Sharon makes these delicious granola bars with applesauce instead of oil — making them a healthy and delicious snack. She says she may try adding some peanut butter in the future, as well! The options are endless! –Mellyn 
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Applesauce Crisp
Out of apples one afternoon, we discovered that applesauce makes a yummy substitute. It’s somewhere between traditional apple crisp and an apple ice cream topping. –Mellyn
Spicy Sweet Potatoes
The spices added to these potatoes really makes a difference. No more standard potatoes every single day!
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Baked Beans
We have a favorite baked bean recipe that uses canned pork and beans. This work-in-progress version is my attempt to use dry beans instead of canned ones, without sacrificing the flavor we love. I’ll continue to update it as I refine it! Thoughts or suggestions are welcome!–Mellyn
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Mom’s Barbecue Beef
Growing up, Mom made her Barbecue for all of our family get togethers. This is our food storage version. –Mellyn
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Oatmeal Bars
Chewy and sweet and easy to assemble. They are great for long trips or short car rides. I make up 2 or 3 batches at a time. I like to wrap them individually to make them more portable, but honestly about 1/2 of a batch is usually gobbled up too fast to wrap.
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Blueberry Pumpkin Muffins
These egg-free muffins are packed with nutrition and delicious to the taste. It can’t get much better than this!–Mellyn 
Yield: 3 dozen muffins
- 2 cups oatmeal, ground into flour
- 1/4 cup nonfat dry milk powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 cups whole wheat flour
- 2 Tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2/3 cup oil
- 2 cups water
- 1 15-ounce can pumpkin
- 2 cups blueberries (fresh, frozen, re-hydrated or 2 15-ounce cans that have been drained)
- Blend oatmeal.
- Combine milk, sugar, brown sugar, whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon.
- Add oil, water and pumpkin. Mix until well combined
- Stir in blueberries gently.
- Spoon into muffin cups.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
Cherry Pineapple Cobbler
Dump cakes are among the easiest desserts on the planet…and this one is my favorite! –Mellyn
Fruit Cocktail Cake
So easy and fast to prepare, this makes a wonderful last minute dessert for unexpected company.
Original recipe from the kitchen of Karen.
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Easy Granola Bars
I have a love-hate relationship with granola bars. I love to eat them, but hate to pay money for something that’s full of corn syrup and other additives. I’ve tried several different recipes over the years, but they were all too much work — until now. This recipe is quick to make, the bars stay together reasonably well, and there’s no corn syrup involved! –Mellyn
Nutty Granola
Adapted from a recipe by Julia L.
Oatmeal is so nutritious and good for you at breakfast time, but some days I just crave cold cereal –that’s when it’s granola to the rescue! Over the last few years, we’ve dramatically cut back on cold cereal, replacing it in large part with…drum roll, please…granola. We have 2 favorite flavors. This first one is similar to what my mom used to make when I was a kid and has a nutty, coconut-y flavor.–Mellyn
- Topped with dried blueberries, this granola is tasty and nutritious!
Chocolate Drop Cookies
A family tradition. Grandma’s recipe calls these “Janice S’s.” My hat off to Janice and to Grandma for making these all the time.
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Raisin Thumb-Print Cookies
Grandma C’s specialty!
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Grandma Elva’s Baked Raisin Pudding
Grandma Elva always had a crew to cook for, and she usually had little or no notice about the number of mouths she would be feeding each day. This never stopped her from whipping up delicious desserts to accompany any meal! Her Baked Raisin Pudding is a well-loved dish filled with raisins, sauce, and a whole lot of memories.
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Morning Muffins
It took me a long time to think of a name for these babies. I love them because they add carrots (and Vitamin A) into my food storage. The kids helped me with finding a name. We went from “Two Fuits and a Veggie,” to “Can I just have another?” Okay, the latter was not really a name suggestion, but an uninterested child. We finally picked one and decided as long as the muffin is good, who cares what the name is?
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