Things I Love

Old-fashioned Homemade Oatmeal Cookies
Old-time, Down-home Oatmeal Cookies Like Grandma Used To Make!
This is an old-fashioned, time-tested recipe for nutritious homemade oatmeal cookies. Nothing fancy, but yummy and good-for-you. Picnic baskets. School lunchbag surprises. After-school snacks. FDA pronouncements about health benefits of oatmeal hit the newswires well after our mothers and grandmothers knew in their bones that oatmeal cookies like these were as wholesome as they are tasty. I've made them with new-fangled no-, or, low-cholesterol, margarine. Everyone swears the taste is the s...

Crispy Nifty Oatmeal Cookie Recipe
Oatmeal Cookie * Simple ~ Crispy ~ Soft ~ Delicious ~
I'm going to share two oatmeal cookie recipes on this lens. Whichever you choose to make first, enjoy the best oatmeal cookie if you like yours to be crispy. Traditional oatmeal cookies are soft and chewy. I really love them. However, sometimes crispy is better. The second recipe does not have coconut, but oatmeal cookies are just as crispy. When I was a child, Mother never made oatmeal cookies. Or, any other kind, for that matter. This was not deprivation! Daddy, who worked for a cookie ba...

My Dad's Banana Pudding Recipe
The Only Dessert My Dad Loved More Than Vanilla Wafers - Banana Pudding With -
The photo is one I scanned from a very old display my dad created in the 1960s when he was president of Jackson's Cookie Company. He was no artist or advertiser, but back then for a regional bakery and distributor like Jackson's Cookies, it worked. Everybody probably knows it takes vanilla wafers to make this favorite family dessert. But, my dad taught me never to underestimate how much really good quality vanilla wafers could transform tasty banana pudding into fantastic, mouthwatering, del...