Time For Fall Foods And Cookies Fill The Bill… !!!
Fall Foods are my comfort foods…as well as Winter foods too…but after a long hot summer, I am ready for Fall and the cooking and baking of foods to warm the tummy.
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Hurricane Watch Update, Making Chinese BBQ Pork!
Hurricane Watch Update while making food such as Chinese BBQ pork roast! My dear readers, we don’t know what is about to happen to the state of Florida…and my prayers are for all of us in this state. We are in a Hurricane Watch and I am giving you an update at this time. The eye…
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Pineapple Sheet Cake Is Good Anytime of Year!
Pineapple Sheet Cake! If you have followed my Blog, you will see recipes for different varieties of sheet cakes. I love the ease of making these sheet cakes and have been making them for years. The baking pan does make a difference in how you want your sheet cake to turn out. Sheet pans come…
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Cheeseboard Fun For Any Time Of The Year!
I love a cheeseboard, so easy to toss together and I have used these appetizer boards at many a potluck. My dear readers, trust me when I tell you there is nothing better than noshing near a beautiful cheese board full of yummies! I almost said “on” a cheese board, but I didn’t want you…
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Cinnamon Roll Cake…Been Around For Years!
Oops! That title appears to suggest that the actual cinnamon roll cake has been around for years. Sorry, the recipe has been around for years…not the cake itself. 🙂 My dear readers….I do love cinnamon rolls and years ago, when I found this recipe for cinnamon roll cake made without yeast….well, let me just say…
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A Rainy Day, Ham & Beans and Maxine…..
The sun was bright and hot. Then the sun hid beneath the fluffy clouds. Then the fluffy clouds turned a dark ominous color and flattened out to resemble an anvil. Then the thunder rolled in with deep grumblings of warning. And I knew…. I knew this day was going to be gloomy! And wet. Especially…
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The Myth Of The $250.00 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Hmmmmmmm…. Chocolate Chip Cookies, Slumber Parties and Coca Cola from the soda fountain! Bobby Sox and poodle skirts and scarves tied loosely around my neck! All great memories, but the soft, oooey-goooey chocolate chip cookie is probably my favorite memory growing up. Perhaps you have heard of the Myth of the $250.00 Cookie Recipe, and…
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The Chocolate Gravy Myth….And How I Think It Started!
The Chocolate Gravy Myth…And How I Think It Started! Grandma Olfiel lived in a small three room house with brown pebble siding. It sat under a huge oak tree on a winding dirt road known as Front Street. Sitting in and about my great grandma’s kitchen were beige colored pots and pans made of enamel-ware….
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Elite Fleet….Yes, We Are Over 50!
I thought I would share pics from an event the Captain and I hosted last night, it was our Elite Fleet…or over 50 group from our church….which is a monthly program we have started. This is actually our third event as we started in February with a Valentine’s Day Party (we had 85 attend) and…
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Under The Weather, But I’m Back!
Under The Weather, But I’m Back! Wow! I came down with a bug of some kind that layed me out flat on my back for a while. It didn’t last long but I was miserable, so I did what I like to do when I am miserable….I stayed in bed. And drank plenty of liquids….
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Luncheons, Tea Sandwiches and BINGO!
Luncheons, Tea Sandwiches and BINGO! My dear readers, I have another story to tell. When I look back on my girlhood, I am not remembering Boyfriends or Proms…. I think about my grandmother and porcupine meatballs and chicken salad. I guess one could say I have always been obsessed with food….and staying at my grandmother’s…
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Make It Yourself…You Can Do It!
We have all done it…. Yep, We are running late and need to grab dinner in a hurry and as we rush by the deli in our favorite supermarket…we grab a rotisserie chicken. And that is cool….nothing wrong with that.
