The last time I made this recipe it was 1992 and I made it a bit differently than I did this time but either way, it is great tasting! To make these pickles, you need jars but you do not need to water-bath or pressure can a single thing. First, you are going to start…
Appetizers
Cinnamon Sugar Pecans
Remember when I told you about our pecan trees and how Rocket, Top Girl, and SIL went into the backyard and picked up two or three bucketfuls of them? We took them to the nut place and had them cracked and blown – then we took them to mom and she shelled them for me….
Alpine Sauce
Does Bleu Cheese sauce make you blue? Does Ranch dressing make you wretch? Have I got a dip for you! I call it Alpine sauce because it is as close as I can get to the Alpine Sauce of my favorite childhood pizza hangout – Lindenloft Pizza. The would spread it over hot dog buns…
3 Outstanding Holiday Leftover Ideas
Casseroles and soups – the staples of holiday leftovers, right? In our family soup is great but casseroles often don’t make the cut for some reason so I am going to show you how we make holiday leftovers shine for weeks to come in our house. Discovered by accident this little trick has become our…
No Mess Hot Wings
Do you like hot wings but do not like the sticky wetness of it all? That’s how I am because there is nothing I hate worse than getting my fingers and hands messy but I do love the taste of chicken wings. I have spent the better part of the last two years trying to…
Toasted Ravioli #thanksgivingrecipe
This is a great recipe for Thanksgiving appetizers and you know you will need those with hungry people in the house! I saw several recipes on Pinterest for them but they all used homemade ravioli but—“Ain’t nobody got time for thaaat”! **Full disclosure: Sweet Brown (the lady who says that in all the videos) is…
Tricks for Treats
I don’t know about you, but I am a regular person – no super powers here and as the holidays roll around I begin trying to find tricks for my treats. Let me see a show of hands: how many of you have waited till the last minute to fix something for a party you…
Tailgating – BBQ Burritos
Are you ready for some football?!?! This Saturday begins the college season for us and while we are still frantically moving the kids in with us and rearranging the entire house, all will stop for a few hours on Saturday to watch the University of Oklahoma play a game of football. Half the kids are…
Hatch Green Chile Round-up
Hi all! I’m back (at least for today) and grateful for all your kind comments. Thank you. I have been planning this round-up for a few weeks now and was going to post it Friday but of course I couldn’t. On a happier note: It’s Hatch Chile Season! Yay! I love Hatch Chile peppers and…
Zesty Cracker Snacks
A few days ago I was talking to my co-worker on Face Book and she told me to look up a recipe called Alabama Firecrackers. I obliged and as soon as I saw it, I was taken back to age nine: Yep, that’s me back when my hair was only wavy and not crazy curly…