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….
Yes my dear readers, I have heard you. It is icy cold in many places and there is nothing like warm and cozy comfort food to take the chill off the house and the bones. This weather has been so unpredictable lately and twin #1 told me of the run on Wal-Mart and other…
I love Mexican food. I know, I know…so do most of you. Before I moved to New Mexico, I thought I really knew Mexican food but as I have explained before…there is nothing like the real deal. Don’t get me wrong….I still like Tex-Mex Mexican food, but when I get a “hankerin’” for that indescribable…
Warm And Cozy Potato And Chicken Crock Pot Soup! Yummy.
Ok, my dear readers…last year at this time, I posted some easy, comfy, cozy recipes and I thought I would re-post because, well because they are sooooo good and easy and perhaps you missed them the first time around. We all love to have pretty little Christmas Cookies and all things “snacky”…I think I just…
Chicken Stock For The Best Chicken Noodle Soup Ever! and even though I have a great recipe listed in my recipe section of this Blog….this recipe is just a bit different. Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I wanted to share with you a recipe that came from my grandma on my Dad’s side….in other…
Once, A Long Time Ago…in a Galaxy far, far away… Ok…Texas is not in a Galaxy far, far away….but it did provide me with a wonderful cold soup recipe, called Gazpacho! Gazpacho! A fresh tasting cold soup, so perfect for anytime. It is true this soup is wonderful in the Spring and Summer….It is…
The golden light of fall is one my favorite things about the season, …when the low slanting light paints everything in a soft warm glow and slowly turns the evening skies into that pretty blue hour just before the curtain of black encompasses the night. Ahhhhh, tis the season of pumpkins, squash, gourds, and apples. Yummy…
The Weather Outside Is Frightful….so what better time to make soup? Perhaps frightful is not the correct term to use for Fall or Autumn, but the weather is definitely changing to cooler temperatures. I was speaking with Only Daughter on Face Time this morning and she commented that she was wearing thick socks and long…
My dear readers, it is certainly HOT all over this wonderful country of ours isn’t it? Whew! Thank goodness, we have air conditioning which is certainly a life saver when cooking in the kitchen….and I have been cooking in the kitchen today. The Captain is flying home today and I always try to have a…
My dear readers, I thought I totally understood how difficult the clean up was/is for any oil spill. I watched news reports and saw workers tirelessly bathing sea gulls and wild life with Dawn dishwashing liquid. I saw all that dark “gook” that was/is washing up on the white sandy beaches. I certainly do not…
You might ask what desk organizing and soup have in common? well, not really anything unless you make soup while you are organizing your desk which is what I began early this morning. Yes, it is the new year and one thinks of better ways to get organized….but that is not the reason I am…