It's time for another post on my Holiday Hosting at home series! I've teamed up with two of my talented friends who enjoy hosting and entertaining as much as I do. This week are sharing some recipes, tablescapes, and fall decor. With Halloween and Thanksgiving right around the corner we have come up with some fun ideas for hosting and entertaining. I hope you'll find some inspiration here for hosting and entertaining in your own homes! Here is what my friends have been sharing this week for their fall home decor and tablescapes. If you would like to pin any of these images, please go to the original post linked below each image. Check out their entire posts – there is so much beauty and inspiration in each of these, you’ll be amazed. To Have + To Host A few years ago, Lory was drawn to a beautiful fall tablescape from a high-end table-top rental company. When she added up the cost of it for 6 people she realized it would be about
Fresh Peach Dessert Recipe
Fresh Peach Dessert Recipe Whether I am in Utah or Washington, at the end of the summer it is peach season! Both states have a lot of peach trees! I love peaches and the yummy desserts you can make with them. Peaches remind me of summertime and this fresh peach dessert recipe makes me wish it was summertime all year long! A few weeks back I was at a family gathering at my brothers home in Cache Valley in Northern Utah. They had invited some friends and family over to celebrate my nephews return from a two year mission for our church. After the church service, we went back to their home and my brother and his wife hosted a luncheon. We were all so hungry after a long morning driving up there and attending church so when I saw this amazing peach dessert, I knew I was going to have to try it! Everyone there was salivating over it. I shouldn’t admit it, but I dished that up first and ate that before I had anything else! Who needs to eat a sandwich first when there’s a
Lazy Daisy Cake
Lazy Daisy Cake
The year before my Grandma Benson passed away, I gave her a recipe box filled with blank recipe cards as a Christmas gift. The following Christmas, she gave the box back to me and had handwritten her favorite recipes on the recipe cards. A month after this, she passed away. The recipes she wrote for me have become one of my most treasured possessions. Whenever I make this simple yummy cake recipe, I think of her and the fond memories I have of her.
One of my favorite recipes that she left for me was “Aunt Mickey’s Lazy Daisy Cake” It’s a sponge cake with a cooked, then broiled frosting. This is a family favorite and another one of the recipes I grew up enjoying. We loved it when Grandma Benson (that's her in the picture frame when she was a little girl) would come to visit because we knew she’d make us a Lazy Daisy Cake and her Chicken Cracker Casserole. I will need to share that recipe
Stan’s Scones and Honey Butter
In Utah, deep-fried bread is called a scone. Top the scone with this amazingly delicious honey butter and you have a match made in heaven.
Have you ever eaten something and after the first bite, you were transported back to a fond memory? That’s how I feel every time I eat these scones and honey butter!
The Story Behind the Scones and Honey ButterOne of my earliest memories from my childhood was going to a restaurant called Me & Stan’s in Rexburg, Idaho with my grandparents. I distinctly remember the first time I bit into their scones covered in honey butter and I’ve been hooked ever since! Every time I visited my grandparents in Idaho, I always had to go to Me & Stan’s and get my fill. When I went to college in Idaho, I carried on my tradition and would go there often with my roommates.
When I was driving through
Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie
Sharing the best strawberry pie recipe with cream cheese filling. It is one of the tastiest desserts thanks to Grandma's recipe.
I'm so excited to share this amazing strawberry pie with you today. When I first met my husband years ago, one of the things I loved most was getting to know his Grandma Jolley. She wasn’t too sure about me at first, but we eventually bonded over the love of cooking. She was an amazing cook and made everything from scratch. We had the chance to live close to them for one year while my husband was waiting to get into dental school. During that time I learned Grandma Jolley (Louise) was a force to be reckoned with. She said exactly what she thought and was always in charge. It’s just how she was and everyone just knew that the kitchen was her domain!
Strawberry Cream Cheese PieEvery Saturday morning everyone also knew that Grandma would have homemade