Baked Squash


My mom made this side dish for years growing up and it's still one of my favorites!! 

There is something about combining yellow squash, onions and tomatoes!  Oh and butter, garlic salt and black pepper too!  This side dish is so easy to prepare and taste so delicious!!! 

The key to making this is to make sure the squash goes from that kinda squeaky texture to that nice soft texture.  It's kinda like meat sometimes you just have to cook it a little longer so that the meat breaks done and hits that tender stage!

Basically you just slice up yellow squash, onion (I often use white with this but you can use yellow too) and tomatoes.  Then you layer it starting with a layer of squash then a layer of onion then tomatoes then you dot with butter and add Lawry's garlic salt and black pepper then repeat!  I prefer to use a dish with a lid but you could cover it with foil.

What happens is the butter melts through the layers and then the juice of the tomatoes gives the squash the liquid it needs to not dry out!

This goes well with so much from grilled chicken to brisket!

Taking pictures was an after thought!!  I had some friends over for dinner and after I chopped up everything and layered it I remembered I hadn't put this on the blog yet!  So the pics aren't the best!



Cut up squash, onions and tomatoes then layer them adding garlic salt and black peppr and dot it with butter!





Almost done, I tossed the squash around with a spoon after about 30 minutes then baked it for another 15 minutes.

Not a a great picture but you have to try this!!





Baked Squash

2 or 3 yellow squashes
1 white onion
2 tomatoes
Butter (about a ½ stick to a whole one)
Lawry’s garlic salt (green lid)
Black Pepper

Slice squash, onion and tomatoes.

In a small casserole dish dot bottom of dish with some
butter.  Put a layer of squash a layer of onions and a layer
Of tomatoes then sprinkle some garlic salt and black pepper
Then about 5 or 6 dots of butter then repeat till you are done.

Bake in oven at 350 degrees 45 minutes to an hour until the
Squash is tender.




Blueberry Cake with Lemon Cream Cheese Icing

I had found several recipes for blueberry cake but they just didn't seem to be what I was looking for so I decided to make a cake out of the blueberry muffin recipe I have on here!  Oh my, good thinking!  The muffins are sooooo moist and good that everytime I saw a recipe I thought nah cause I was comparing it to that recipe!  So glad I tried this!

This recipe not only makes a beautiful 3 layer cake but you can make muffins, bundt cake and even blueberry bread by using a loaf pan!  Cooking time would differ on all so I'll give estimated times below. 

I don't have step by step pic guide but it's a very easy recipe!  Just make sure you fold in the blueberries so they don't get crushed by the beater.  The sour cream really makes this blueberry delight so moist!

I've made the muffins over and over again! The cake I will make again, I am sure of that!


The lemon cream cheese icing goes so nicely with the blueberries!


This batter makes nice size layers!


This recipe makes almost 30 muffins!


Truly delicious and moist!

Blueberry  Cake or Blueberry Muffins
4 eggs
2 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
2 cups sour cream
2 cups blueberries


1) In a large bowl, beat eggs. Gradually add sugar while beating. Continue beating while slowly pouring in oil. Stir in vanilla. In separate bowl, stir together flour, salt and baking soda.

2) Stir dry ingredients into egg mixture alternately with sour cream. Gently fold in blueberries

If you are making a cake grease and flour 3 round pans and evenly pour/ scoop batter (will be thick) into pans.  Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.  Let cool for 15 to 30 minutes before taking out of pans

For Muffins
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease 24 muffin cups or line with paper muffin liners.
 Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups.
4) Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes.

Makes 24-30 muffins.

The only thing I did different was to take a couple Tablespoons of the flour and roll the fresh blueberries in it so that they didn’t spread out and make purple batter.

Bundt Cake
Preheat oven to 350.  Grease and flour a bundt pan and pour batter in making it even on all sides.

Bake for about 50 minutes.  Check on occasionally after 40 minutes.  Test to see if done in middle before you take it out.

Icing for Cake -



Lemon Cream Cheese Icing

1 8oz cream cheese softened
2 sticks of butter softened
Powder sugar about 2/3’ of a bag
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp fresh lemon juice
2 tsp of lemon zest

Cream together softened cream cheese and butter then add powder sugar
A little at a time then add vanilla. Add lemon juice and zest and mix well!

You can add 2 T of milk or water if it’s too thick (the more you beat it the softer it gets)