My husband loves dark chocolate and so do I. In fact, if he could find a bagful of Milky Way Midnight Dark candy bar in the fun size, he would be in heaven! When I saw the pie recipe, I knew I had to make it for us very soon and thought I would jazz it up a…
Coconut Roulade with Rum Buttercream for National Cake Day
Every month, I look forward to the newest issue of Food Network Magazine. I peruse the pages trying to find a recipe that is appealing to our family, easy enough for me to make, and does not require a bunch of difficult-to-find ingredients. I am always successful although sometimes I end up preparing a fairly…
Strawberry Santa’s
A Facebook friend of mine from high school sent me a picture last week of little strawberry Santa’s and I just knew I had to make them. I searched the Internet for a tutorial or instructions and didn’t find too much. I honestly could only find 2 other posts with them and only one with…
Holiday Leftover Potato Pancakes
There are many “leftovers” recipes floating around the web right now and some of them look delicious. I haven’t posted in over a week so I wanted my first post back to be spectacular! I chose my Nana’s favorite recipe to use……….I guess the holidays make me think of her a lot because she and…
Cheesy Bacon Cornbread
This has been “Spoil Mr. Picky eater” all week long. As most of you know, my husband and I work in public service. On December 5th, I will have been with our agency – the place we met – for 18 years. Around my birthday, Mr. Picky eater (MPE) celebrated his 23rd anniversary. We both…
Nana’s Banana Pudding
Most of you read my post Dan Taylor’s Determination last week about my Nana. When several of my cousins saw it, they asked for many of her recipes which I promised to scan and send to them this weekend. But many things happened last week and I was unable to do so. I spent the…
Easy Homemade Pizza and Sauce
Easy Pizza Sauce Ingredients for Sauce: 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1/4 cup onion, grated 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 4 garlic cloves, minced 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes 1/4 teaspoon sugar 2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil I melted the butter and grated the onion (draining all the…
Crock Pot Swiss Meatloaf
This was one of those happy accidents that I often have. I made these the day I made the fruitcakes and when I took out the hamburger, my brain was thinking, “make Salisbury steaks”. But it was in the MIDDLE of making the fruitcake so I had my mind on several things as once. The…
Freakin’ Delicious Fruitcake
My dad loved fruitcake. Secretly, I kind of liked it but always thought it could be much better tasting if it just didn’t have all those candied bitter bits in it and it had too many big nuts AND it was so heavy and dense! One year I decided to try my hand at it…
Texas Chicken Sliders
Saturday, Top Girl thought we may like supper made for us after the 2-day yard sale we had (and we were) so as she was frying chicken tenders she had her husband bring us a couple. We were so tired that evening, we didn’t even eat. But the next day as we were watching football,…