This post is sponsored by Taste of Home to spread the news about their new Taste of Home 100 Family Meals cookbook. All opinions are our own.
Every year, I make a ton of New Year’s resolutions that I end up forgetting about within a few days. Like most people, I resolve to spend more time working out, drink more water, stress less, sleep better, and so on. This year, though, I’m switching gears and making resolutions that I know I’ll actually want to stick to! One of those goals is to spend more time cooking with my daughter, and the Taste of Home 100 Family Meals cookbook is the perfect tool to help me do just that! After all, research shows that eating together as a family helps reduce stress (not to mention it helps ensure we’re all eating healthier).
Since I was a little girl, cooking has been very close to my heart. My aunt has always owned a bakery that I helped at and my mom was always in the kitchen, as was my grandmother. Food was always a big part of family gatherings and you never left hungry. When I was ten, I was so obsessed with cooking that my parents bought me a waffle iron for Christmas. It was my favorite gift out of all of them. A couple years down the road, my mother surprised me with tickets to go see a cooking show.
Taste of Home 100 Family Meals Cookbook Review
That cooking show was the Taste of Home show and I was mesmerized. I was young and new to all the cooking gadgets. There were a ton of booths, cooking demonstrations, and tastings of recipes from their featured recipes. I was hooked and Taste of Home quickly became my favorite and most trusted source for recipes. When I received their cookbook, it made me feel nostalgic. I thought about all those magazines I saved of theirs and how much I cherished them.
The cookbook contained so many recipes (enough to make a new meal twice a week!) ranging from easy to a little more time-consuming. I adored the little notes added in by those who had created the recipe and the bright, beautiful photos made it difficult to choose which recipe to make. I sat and read through the recipes for a good half an hour until my husband asked me if I was going to stare at it all day.
I finally decided to make a batch of Pecan Butterscotch Cookies (from page 250, FYI) with my daughter. Let’s check out to make them, then I’ll tell you a bit more about this awesome cookbook.
Pecan Butterscotch Cookies (Page 250)
Takes: 25 min.
Makes: about 1 ½ dozen
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Complete Buttermilk pancake mix
- 1 pkg. (3.4 oz.) instant butterscotch pudding mix
- 1/3 Cup Butter, melted
- 1 large egg
- ½ Cup chopped pecans, toasted
Directions:
- In a large bowl, beat the pancake mix, dry pudding mix, butter and egg until blended. Stir in pecans.
- Roll into 1 ½ in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Flatten with the bottom of a glass. Bale at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes or until edges begin to brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.
Note: you may substitute regular biscuit/baking mix for the complete buttermilk pancake mix.
How easy is that? I never thought of using pancake mix to make cookies before, did you? This is just one of the little tricks you’ll learn as you read through Taste of Home 100 Family Meals. That’s not all, either. The book is filled not just with recipes but also with fun ways to really savor your family mealtime, like the chapter called Table Talk, which gives you fun discussion topics! Many of the recipes are easy enough to allow your own little ones to help out, too!
Taste of Home remains a wonderful source of recipes and tips but the best part about it is the fact that they’ve made it through the years with me and, I know, many others. They’re a source of warm memories along with sensible recipes. Being able to use Taste of Home 100 Family Meals book to cook with the little ones made me feel like I was passing on a tradition.
Taste of Home 100 Family Meals is available now in both Kindle & paperback. Buy it on Amazon here Follow Taste of Home on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest for more inspiring ways to keep your resolution to spend more time eating together as a family. You can also follow the #100FamilyMeals hashtag for more great recipes & discussion about the book!
Did you make any New Year’s Resolutions to spend more time together as a family? How do you make mealtime special? Share in the comments!
Getting the kids involved with cooking is a great thing, helps teach them so many skills!
I love to bake with my kids and we are always looking for new recipes. This cookbook would be perfect for us!
We’re not into resolutions, but we always make sure to spend a lot of quality time together as family. :) Those look good. My husband loves pecans so much.
Wow! Your cookies turned out awesome! I would love to try this recipe some time!
My little guy would enjoy these cookies. Okay, so would I. The cookbook is going on my wishlist.
My goodness, I am in love with those cookies that looks absolutely delicious. The Taste of Home of cookbook sounds like a great add on to have to make sure you can try some delicious recipes at home!
I’ve love to get my hands on that book! I’m always running out of meal ideas to cook for my family!
These cookies sound amazing! I have a son, and sometimes I wish I had a daughter to bake with. Mh son is “too cool” to do somehting like that with his mom now :)
This is so sweet. I love baking together as a family! It is always a good experience!
Oh my sweet WOW! These cookies look and sound absolutely amazing and they don’t look horribly difficult to make. I am writing down the recipe and can’t wait to get in the kitchen with my little one to give them a whirl.
Oh these cookies look so good! I am all about baking this time of year, it makes the house smell wonderful and is so cozy to do when it is cold outside. I have not seen this book but I like that there is so many meals as an option.
TOH is just about the only cookbooks I use and buy. I don’t have this one yet but I did find an old one that I didn’t have, on Amazon, this week and purchased it. This one will be next.
If I were there in your kitchen after those were done baking, I’d shovel them into my bag and run, then I’d find a hidden spot and shovel them all into my mouth…lol (that’s how good they look to me!) thanks for the idea, I’ll be making those over the weekend : )
Some of my favorite recipes are from Taste of Home! I never thought about using pancake mix for cookies – so resourceful!
I have never heard of cookies that can be made with pancake mix! That is something we always have in the house, so it would be so much fun to make! Bookmarking this post, and I am definitely going to have to check out this cookbook!
So interesting that the cookies are made with pancake mix.
I love pecan in baked goods. Your cookies turned out so yummy looking.
Wow this sounds so good! I love finding yummy cookie recipes to recreate!
My oldest would love those cookies. I love Taste of Home cookbooks, they are great!
These cookies look yummy! I love anything pecan and butterscotch. Can’t wait to try making these. Just pinned it.
Those cookies look wonderful! It looks like you and your daughter have a great time cooking/baking together. My son loves to cook/bake, and this cookbook looks like it would be a good one to give him.
WOW! These look delicious. I love all things butterscotch. Can’t wait to try these out.
Spending time together cooking and baking is a WONDERFUL resolution! Those cookies look and sound scrumptious :)
these look super yummy. Can’t wait to try them.
Wow. These cookies look so yummy. I love butterscotch.
Those butterscotch cookies look delicious! I would totally get lost in all of those wonderful recipes,
I love flipping through the pages of Taste of Home. I will love adding this cookbook to my collection. Can’t wait to see what else there is inside.
I love butterscotch and I love pecans so I am pretty sure these cookies need to be in my life right now. Yum, yum.
You guys look too adorable cooking together. I think I want to do this when I have kids to have them help me in the kitchen!
We love Pecans and butterscotch! Feels like Christmas in January with this post can’t wait to make these cookies- so perfect for the winter!
Oh yum. Im a huge pecan fan so these would be delicious. I’m going to have to make these with the kiddos!
My husband loves pecans, I like butterscotch. This sounds like a recipe that we could both agree on. I will have to try it.
I love these types of cookies. So does my husband; his mom used to bake these during the holidays when he was a boy.
These cookies look so yummy. I do a cookie exchange once a month. These will have to go in the next batch.
All of my favorite recipes have come from Taste of Home. I haven’t tried this cookie recipe, but now that you have it on my radar, I can’t wait. They sound awesome!
Exploring new cookbooks is always so much fun. I bet this one is full of yummy recipes.
Oooh, nice cookbook find! These cookies sound super yummy. It’s pretty cool that they use pancake mix!
This is my favorite cookbook and magazine!! These look delicious!
This cookie looks so delicious and decadent! My sweet tooth is craving this and a tall glass of milk!!
I love Taste of Home, so I need this cookbook. These cookies sound like the perfect way to get the family into the kitchen.
I LOVE Taste of Home. I have been getting it for oh i don’t know 10-11 years now? I love how all of the recipes are tried and true!