We love our electric smoker. We’ve used our electric smoker to smoke burgers, brisket, cheese, peppers, ribs, duck, garlic, tomatoes and now we have smoked a chuck roast. Smoked chuck roast is like best pot roast you’ve ever had with an extra layer of smokey flavor. This chuck roast is tender and is an…
Fourth of July
Southern Baked Beans
We are having Baked Beans tonight at a family potluck. We are making them 2 ways and I will share those ways with you so you can either make both or choose the one that suits your family best. The only difference is whether you add cooked bacon or cooked sausage. Both are delicious! Southern…
Strawberry Upside-Down Cake
This is a very easy cake to make with kids. I made this cake with Rocket and he thought it was really neat to put the cake batter on top of the marshmallows and he loved flipping it upside-down. Using a cake mix makes this really cook cake quick and easy. Give it a try…
Crock Pot Italian Sausage Queso for New Year’s Eve!
New Year’s Eve has always been fun with my mom. It’s full of junk food and movies and staying up late. Well, late can be relative. I am so thankful that Netflix has an anytime countdown for kids. I bet we all end up in bed by 11. One of our favorite New Year’s Eve…
Cabbage Slaw
Hey y’all! I’m bringing you this old-fashioned cabbage or cole slaw recipe this afternoon because tomorrow is Sunday and you always need a great side salad for Sunday lunch of supper. The dressing is lovely and not sweet at all although you could add a Tablespoon of white sugar to give it a sweetness if…
Chocolate Sheet Cake
Below is my very best go-to chocolate cake recipe. Chocolate Sheet Cake. It is the recipe that my childhood best friend’s mom made all the time. I loved that cake. First, let me tell you what got me thinking about posting this recipe. Do you remember trick or treating? I do and it…
Green Pea Salad
This recipe is another from the files of my Nana – she took it to potlucks, especially at church and you could almost always count on making this along with a peach cobbler and some of her macaroni and cheese if someone passed away that we knew. As you know, I have been eating smarter…
Copycat Publix Pasta Salad
Have you ever visited Fave Southern Recipes? They promote many of my posts and I am sure they are going to love this one! Go on over and give them a looksey – you’ll love ’em as much as I do! A few weeks ago I received an email from one of…
Quickest BBQ Chicken Ever!
I’m going to show you how to make the quickest BBQ Chicken with a 6 burner hooded bbq ever in just a moment. First, how have you been? It’s been crazy busy around these parts, mostly because my 6-year-old computer died so a new one had to arrive and be programmed causing me to be…
Steakhouse Strawberry Lemonade
Last Saturday Top Girl and I went shopping where at some point we decided to get a bite to eat. We drove to our favorite sit-down place to eat on Saturday only to be told the wait would be almost an hour! We left, walking across the parking lot to one of the chain steak…