Jolene's Recipe Journal

  Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner and today I'm revisiting an old favorite, Frozen Lemon Berry Margaritas. I found Julie H's recipe in Taste of Home magazine years ago and have slowly adapted it to our liking. 

  April 26th is National Pretzel Day! It was really hard to narrow down a recipe to make because I love pretzels in all their forms, soft, twisted, rods, sticks, rolls, nuggets. After some deliberation, I picked Jackie R's Loaded Up Pretzel Cookies from Taste of Home.

  Who's ready for Muffin Monday?  For this month I'm sharing some delicious Streusel Strawberry Muffins from Taste of Home.

When Dunkin came out with their new menu offering of Hummus Toast I was practically in the car before the commercial had ended.  It was delicious, but I try really hard to limit my drive through spending to things that I can't or won't make at home, and I knew this was something I could. 

  Today is National Garlic Day and I went all in with this recipe for skillet potatoes from Anita O. that I found on the Taste of Home website.  There are 12 whole cloves of garlic in this recipe! 

Roasting brings out the flavor in so many things but tomatoes are one of my favorites and it's so very simple to do!

  This month's Taste of Home Bakeable challenge is carrot cake. One of the suggestions given were Leanne G 's Carrot Cake Pancakes. We're big fans of pancakes and I had everything on hand. 

Today is National Coffee Cake Day and to celebrate I made Heather O's Berry Topped Coffee Cake from Taste of Home. It's not berry season here so had to rely on the grocery store offerings and I ended up with huge blueberries and strawberries.

Spring is in the air and the local farms have started advertising their wares.  Some of the first things that are available are spring greens.  I snapped up some baby spinach and then searched out a recipe on the Taste of Home site to use it.