Recipes

Sweet Potato Souffle - made by Gram and loved by generations of the Shorter family. My grandma Ruth made this sweet potato souffle for years, and it was always the hit of the meal. Now, my mom makes it and I make sure I have the dish of it right next to me at the table! This recipe is great ...
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As summer and warmer weather arrive, before any yard clean up happens, our first priority is to get that grill BBQ-ready! From the time the snow melts until the snow returns, our family practically eats every dinner from the grill. And one of our BBQ favorites is Shish-kabobs! Whether grilli...
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Easter is a favorite holiday of mine, but for years I struggled with how to decorate for the holiday. There are lots of items out there to purchase for Easter, and I seemed to have a little bit of everything. After trying to make it all work together, I finally decided to decorate based on color. Ou...
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Recently while I was stationed in Trapper’s Cabin, Grandpa Shorter’s lower level, (check out the random sales and other cool stuff down there) I was looking over our large assortment of cookie cutters and found one the shape of a piece of toast. Why would anybody want a toast shaped coo...
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As a kid, you never could have gotten me to eat squash. "Blechh" was a favorite phrase of mine when my taste buds had not yet developed. Now, I have a pre-teen in my house, and she is very much like I was at her age. She is not into anything new! I find myself trying to convince her to eat new food...
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This past Sunday, Kaitlyn and I went out to my Dad's farm and picked apples. He has 18 trees, and they were loaded with apples. We picked for about an hour and picked several bushels worth. Left many more on the trees to ripen a bit more, but we are anxious to go back out and pick some more...
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It warms my heart when my daughter Kaitlyn bakes holiday cookies with my mom. Bake a batch with your family and see what happens. It is magic year around. Old Fashion Sour Cream Cookies Ingredients: 1/2 cup shortening1 cup sugar1 egg2 tsp. almond flavoring2 2/3 cups all-purpose flo...
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