Cereal Spiked Butter Frosting

I’ve been wanting to make cupcakes for a few weeks but I promised myself I’d space out my baking recipes a little more than I have been. I don’t need to go into diabetic shock or anything.
So, I came across my current idea on a baking blog called “Cups and Cookies” when the baker-blogger had made Pink Velvet Fruity Pebble Whoopie Pies. She made a pretty pink whoopie pie and filled it with a Fruity Pebble spiked buttercream frosting. What a great idea!

Easy Breakfast Casserole

 The recipe this week is not a new idea by any means, but the idea of it was new to me when I found it. I think I’ve struck gold this time.
Maybe it’s my lack of ability to think outside the cereal box, but eating cold cereal hot never occurred to me. I originally came across this idea in my 1940’s edition of “The Joy Of Cooking” in the cereal chapter. I didn’t even know cookbooks included a cereal chapter before I found this book.

New Year's Resolutions

If healthy eating is one of your New Year’s resolutions, you’re not alone. Many people, including me, start the new year with high hopes of being the person who says, “I would love some more brussels sprouts” and “No, no, just a small piece of strawberry butter cream cake” or ‘No, I’m too stuffed with brussels sprouts to eat that chocolate fudge sundae”.
Now there are some iron willed people out there who have great self control; I’m not one of those people. I love to bake and cook, healthy and not so healthy recipes, but mostly I love to eat the things I cook. Why else would we take the time to prepare something delicious and (hopefully) nutritious if we planned on denying ourselves the pleasure of eating it? Why indeed.

Welcome!!!

Thank you for visiting our new blog!

 I'm so excited to start this blog for my weekly column in The Haskell News and make it available for our readers and anyone else who cares to read it.
A little bit of information about the Haskell News and how Eating Traditions started all starts in the sleepy little town of Haskell. We are a small rural community in the heartland of the U.S. The Haskell News started in 1908 (I believe) and is one of few newspapers to be published continuously since it was founded.
I started Eating Traditions as a tribute to my family having owned the newspaper for 50 years starting in April 2012. Growing up, I didn't know how well I ate as a child until I ran off to college and lived off fast food for a few years. Now back in Haskell, I'm trying to recreate the meals I ate as a child and widen my taste buds, too.
What to expect here:
As I said, this is a weekly column in a newspaper, so expect regular posts. I love to bake so you'll most likely see posts about baking, but also cooking in general.