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Cinnamon Rolls – NO SOURDOUGH NEEDED

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This is an easy way to make cinnamon rolls from scratch… they aren’t quite as good as our Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls but they are close. This is perfect if you don’t have sourdough.

You can choose to ice them or just give them a little sprinkle of powdered sugar. These remind me of old-fashioned cinnamon rolls as the dough is more of a biscuit texture, but oh so good!

I cut mine a little thinner and usually end up with 20-24 medium sized rolls.

Cinnamon Rolls

Ingredients:

Dough:

  • 4 c.  Flour (If using self-rising flour you can omit the next 3 ingredients)
  • 1 T. baking powder
  • 1 t. baking soda
  • 1 t. salt
  • 1 c. shortening or butter (softened)
  • 1 1/2 – 2 c. Buttermilk (you can use regular milk and add 1 T. Vinegar)
  • 1 T. honey (optional)
  • 1/4 butter, melted (optional) 
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Quick and Easy Fruit Dip for Fresh Snacks

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I’ve never posted this recipe as it is just so easy but we needed a copy the other day so here it is…

Easy Fruit Dip

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz cream cheese, softened
  • 7 oz jar of Marshmallow creme
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Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing

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One of my kiddos who loves Red Velvet Cake recently requested one for her birthday. We had to make it dairy-free… it was a little work but we succeeded. I used a boxed cake which said it was dairy-free.

I’ll try to update this with a printable recipe card later but you can print out the cream cheese icing recipe and write in the changes.

Cream Cheese Icing

Dairy Free Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients:

  • 8 oz cream cheese (dairy free)
  • 1 stick margarine (dairy free)
  • 1 lb confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 t. vanilla
  • 1 t. Cream cheese flavoring (optional)

Directions:

Cream all of the icing ingredients together and spread on cooled cake.

Sprinkle the top with any crumbs that may have fallen off the cake.

Stomach Bugs, Garden Bugs, and a Bathroom Remodel

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Whew! What a week… we finally got started on our master bathroom remodel but it is far from being completed. When we started peeling back the flooring we found that this was not the first time the floor had been ‘fixed’ and we also found more of the drywall mud patches on the floor like we had found in the kitchen and laundry room. We also found that some of the previous fixes included glue and nails which made the removal process more tedious but more on that in a bit.

Our garden has been coming along quite well other than a surge of pests which are eager to eat all of the food we’ve been working so hard to grow. The weather has been extremely hot but we have been getting a few showers that have helped. I did invest in a couple of new sprinklers that I’ll try to share about later. We have been putting up a few more videos on YouTube as well if you’d like to check them out.

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Grannie’s Tuna Salad

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Mr. Awesome, his dad, and his brother went fishing a bit ago and his brother had brought some tuna salad for lunch. I guess it was pretty good because I keep hearing about it and about how amazing it is to eat with Frito scoops! I haven’t tried it yet but plan to do so soon!

I never got the chance to meet Grannie but I’ve tried some of her recipes and they have been AMAZING so I’m sure this one will be too!

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