My momma's easy-peasy version of peaches 'n cream.  (I'm stuck on "easy-peasy" this week.  What in the world?)

Peel and slice fresh peaches.  Add brown sugar and sour cream.  Stir.  Add blueberries.  Stir.  Told ya it was easy-peasy.  Now, for the measurements.  We eyeball the brown sugar and sour cream.  I'm guessing for each peach use 2 tablespoons of sour cream and 1 teaspoon of brown sugar.  Feel free to adjust according to your taste and natural tartness of the fruit.  Blueberries are optional.  Enjoy!

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It's worth baking just for the wonderful aroma!  It's the only thing good about overripe bananas. 

My stepmom makes my favorite banana bread.  Of course, she gave me the recipe.

Debbie's Banana Bread Recipe:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 3 mashed bananas
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

Optional:

• Add 1/2 cup of one or two of the following:  pecans, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, walnuts... (we like butterscotch chips best)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease loaf pan.  Coat pan with cinnamon sugar (1 part cinnamon, 4 parts sugar) or flour.  Mix all the above ingredients until well combined.  Pour into loaf pan.  Bake for 1 hour. 

Mmmm...mmmm.  Smells delightful.  Tastes even better. 

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I love, love, love this cake recipe!  The original recipe is delightful but I changed it around a little bit to accommodate my pantry.

• 1/2 cup butter softened
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups applesauce applebutter
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1 1/2 cups rolled oats
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 cup chopped apples
  
  Cream butter with sugar. Add eggs, applesauce and water and beat well. Add dry ingredients and incorporate well. Add chopped apples to batter.  Pour batter into a greased and floured bundt pan.  Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes or until it tests done.

The original recipe called for applesauce instead of applebutter.  I have several jars of applebutter that I purchased from a local church.  I also love the texture of chopped apples in cakes. So, I decided to throw some in there.  Beyond your typical staples (butter, sugar, flour), this cake costs around $1.00 to make.  See the original recipe for a breakdown of cost.

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2/3 cup peanut butter

4 oz cream cheese

1 cup powdered sugar

8 oz cool whip

1 graham cracker crust

Cream peanut butter and cream cheese together.  Mix in powdered sugar.  Mix in cool whip.  Pour in graham cracker crust.  Chill in refrigerator. 

Aunt Mag made this for us when our first baby was born.  It's been a family favorite since.

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This fruit salad is accompanying us to a Christmas Party today.  Isn't it lovely?  I love the color.  I love the fresh yummy goodness.  Maybe I should stay home and party with the fruit salad alone? 

White Seedless Grapes

Blueberries

Strawberries

Kiwi

Mandarin Oranges

2 - 3 cups Orange Juice

2 cups sugar (Approx.)

1 1/2 tsp vanilla

Mix juice, sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl.  Stir until sugar is mostly dissolved.  Add fruit.  Depending on natural sweetness of fruit, you  might add less or even extra sugar.  Sugar measurement is according to taste.  Start with less and add if needed.  Let marinate.  Stir from bottom occasionally.  Additional fruit:  pineapple, peaches, raspberries...

I can't remember how I found The Full Table, a blog devoted to frugal cooking but I'm sure glad.  I made the Pumpkin Spice Muffins and they were a huge hit!  You'll have to go to The Full Table for the recipe.  It makes 30 muffins for aproximately $2.00!  They are delightful! 

As you can see, they were disappearing quickly!  I made 24 regular muffins and 24 tiny muffins.  

We are planning to try the chicken pot pie next (serves 8 - 12, cost is aprox. $7.50). 

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Many a blackberry has found it's way to our freezer in recent days.  Many thanks to friends and family for thinking of us during the blackberry pickin's. 

Remember that cherry crisp recipe?  Well, blackberries are even better. 

1 quart of blackberries

1/2 to 1 cup of sugar (depending on the tartness of the berries)

1 cake mix

1 stick butter

Place berries in pan.  Sprinkle with sugar.  Top with cake mix.  Dot with butter.  Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.  Top with icecream.  Oh. My. Goodness.

We have two cherry trees in our backyard.  The small one was loaded with cherries this year.  We had so much fun picking them. 

Pitting them was not so much fun.  I rinsed them and packed them in quart size freezer bags.  Now the freezer is stocked with yummy cherries. 

Here's what I made with 1 quart of cherries.

Cherry Crisp

1 quart of thawed cherries (sweetened with a 1/2 cup of sugar)

1 can of cherry pie filling (No frozen or fresh cherries?  Use 2 cans of cherry pie filling.)

1 box of cake mix (any white or yellow mix is fine - I used a pound cake mix)

1 stick of butter

Pour cherries and pie filling in a 9X13 pan.  Top with dry cake mix.  Dot with butter.  Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

Top with vanilla icecream.  Oh. My. Goodness.  It's so yummy!  I have also used this recipe with blackberries, apples, and peaches.  More yumminess!