Author: thesimplecelebration

Cake, Sweets

First Day of Fall Apple Cake

The wonderfully warm flavors of apples, raisins, and walnuts in this recipe will definitely have you thinking about Fall.  This cake is extremely moist – serve it along with some vanilla beach ice cream and you have the perfect dessert!  Leftovers?  No problem.  Freeze leftovers and when you want to serve them, just remove from […]

Meatless, Pasta, Simple Entrées

M-E’s Pasta Sauce

When my children were young (and even today) and they could smell the enticing aroma of onion and garlic cooking, they would come running while asking “are you making your sauce?”  If the answer was yes, their immediate response was, “let us know when we can dunk!”  They loved to stand by the stove with […]

Cold, For A Crowd, Starters

An Antipasto Feast!

For our 200th blog party we decided on a simple, fun, no-cook menu.  We headed to our fantastic local Italian market, Mazzaro’s, and bought a wonderful assortment of meats, cheeses, and other goodies. Our first stop was to the cheese counter where we met Charlie.  We sampled many great Italian cheeses and settled on three – […]

Spirits

Simple Summertime Sangria

  “This is the best white sangria I’ve ever tasted!” exclaimed Vicki’s husband, Skip.  It’s true, this sangria recipe turned out better than we expected.  Oftentimes white sangrias are too sweet, but this is deliciously crisp and fresh.  Make a pitcher (or two) for your next summertime get together.