This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for any purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! Do you see that beautiful girl in that picture above? That is Rachel and she is soon to be my daughter-in-law! We are so excited to have her in our family! Since she is from out of state, where her family threw her a bridal shower, we decided that she needed to have one here in her fairly new home state of Arizona, so Maddy took the lead and planned a shower for her, with Lindsey and I helping. It turned out so great!
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I love banana bread, but sometimes the baking time is a deterrent to making it. We have finally hit the triple digits in Phoenix a time or two, so I don't really want my oven on for that long. But, I had 3 very ripe bananas that I wanted to use up, plus I needed to take treat to a church activity. So, I came up with these Salted Caramel Banana Blondies!
There are a couple of secret ingredients that make these blondies so tasty:
Another great thing about this recipe is that it makes a big batch when you bake them in your half sheet pan. If you bake them in something smaller, add about 10 minutes to your bake time. I had plenty to take to the activity, plus leave some to enjoy at home!
Here are some other recipes you may enjoy:
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YUP! See all of those strawberries in that graphic above? They are some of the many that have been coming out of my strawberry patch! I am so happy with my strawberries this year. Here is why.
Last year I put a few strawberry plants in my garden box. They began to produce a few strawberries, and just when they were ripe enough to pick, Maddy's puppy, Boots, ate them! At first I thought the birds had gotten them, so I covered them with netting to protect them. But, when I found the netting strewn all over my yard, I realized it was the dog. It was pretty funny actually, because he had nipped them off the stems very carefully exactly when they were ripe and very carefully! (He is a very smart dog who loves strawberries.) Needless to say, I didn't end up harvesting many strawberries last year. I decided that I needed a bigger strawberry patch. That way between the birds, the dogs and the bugs, I might still end up with some strawberries for the family to enjoy. Since strawberries reproduce very well on their own, I decided to try an experiment in my garden of wintering my existing plants over and allowing them to shoot out baby plants. I trimmed them back, taking off all of the dead or damaged foliage. I babied the babies. In the winter when we had some freezing weather, I covered them with sheets to keep the frost off of them. I fertilized them. I was determined to have a successful patch, something that has never before happened for me. Hallelujah! My efforts paid off and my patch of strawberries has more than doubled! Then, in the early Spring, the strawberry blossoms began to appear! These aren't just little bitty strawberries either! There have been some really big ones! Here are a couple of my first ones:
Since this is Strawberry Month, and because I am using my strawberries almost daily, I thought I would share some delicious strawberry recipe ideas with you today. Here is a roundup!
Do you have a favorite suggestion that you can share? Please drop it in the comments!
This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! Well, after being spoiled this year with prolonged cool temperatures, rain and also wind, today in Phoenix, we are well into the 90s! 97 is supposed to be the high I believe! You know what it means when the thermometer goes over 100 degrees, baking at our house will come to an end for a few months. So, I am going to share one last fantastic recipe with you created out of necessity that is perfect for all of you prolific beet grower! It is a Quick Sweet Beet Bread Recipe!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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