It is always a good time to make something with chocolate.  When the mood seizes you, discovering you haven’t got a crucial ingredient can ruin the mood.  Knowing its “equivalent” or substitution can save the day.  Today, Mom helps cooks and chocoholics with tips on chocolate and includes the world’s easiest dipped strawberry recipe.

Chocolate is made from the bean of the tropical cacao tree.  In its purest bakin (more…)

As a busy mother, wife and grandmother, I don’t have time during the week to cook big breakfasts for my family. When the weekend finally rolls around, I look forward to getting up early in the morning and preparing a nice hot breakfast for my family.

We enjoy delicious pancakes made from scratch, omelets, egg casseroles, waffles, egg and cheese burritos and of course, all of those yummy sides like ham, bacon and toas (more…)

Holidays are fast approaching and we are into a rush to prepare really great tasting recipes for our friends and family. At times, it gets confusing because there are lots of holiday recipes that you want to make but 1 really staple item in my menu would be homemade fudges. If you’re family goes crazy over nut less fudge like mine do, then please go ahead and prepare a couple of batches during the holidays. I have listed here 5 (more…)

Great way to make a healthy recipe, low fact cake. For other variations try the following: Diet Sprite or 7-Up with a white or yellow cake mix. Diet Cherry 7 Up or Diet Cherry Coke with a strawberry cake mix. Take mixture (just the diet soda and cake mix mixed well) and bake in the oven according to the directions on the cake box (do not add any other ingredients!). While the healthy recipe cake is baking, defrost your Fat-Free or Sugar-Free C (more…)