We are serious non-traditionalists when it comes to the holiday season. Top Girl’s dad and I are divorced. My husband’s parents are divorced – his mother is deceased now, but wasn’t when we married. Obviously my step-son’s parents are divorced. Top Girl is married with a 3rd family to consider especially with Rocket being here…
Holidays
Chocolate Peanut Clusters
Here in this part of the country, we have a chain of what started out as ice cream stores and now offers grocery items. This place is called Braum’s. Their main dairy farm and headquarters is about 10 miles from my house. As I get older, going to the huge super stores do not hold…
Happy Independence Day! Patriotic Parfaits
To all my American friends: Hope you have a wonderful and safe 4th! Take care and I’ll see you Thursday with a regular recipe AND a canning recipe! To all my friends who are not celebrating our holiday tomorrow – take care, I will be at home with my family all day and using…
Happy Cinco de Mayo and Birthday!
Today is Cinco de Mayo AND our oldest son’s birthday. Mr. Picky Eater and I have been married just shy of seven years and we each brought children with us – although they were already pretty much grown. I brought my daughter, our oldest and he brought two sons: the one turning 25 today and the…
Easy Easter Palmiers
On Easter morning, we do not like to have heavy and sometimes messy breakfasts. When the kids were little that was a no-no! These quick and easy palmiers can be prepared the night before, left in the fridge overnight and baked off in a snap on Easter morning. A nice slightly sweet, light breakfast….
Candy Apple Jelly
The County Fair will be here tomorrow and this jelly has been entered into fair again. I enter it every year and every year I win a blue ribbon for it! It’s so wonderful and tastes just like a candy apple. It’s great on a biscuit but it’s better on ice cream and since it’s…
Prejean’s Gumbo
When our oldest son was still an undergrad, he did a summer internship in Lafayette, LA. The hubs and I went to visit him during that summer and had the great privilege of eating at Prejean’s Restaurant. While there, I purchased their cookbook and every fall, that son requests I make gumbo during football season. I…
Nana’s Chocolate Pie
My nana was a wonderful woman who tried like the dickens to teach me to cook, iron, crochet and any number of other domestic arts. The only one she ever succeeded in was teaching me to can fruits and vegetables from the garden. Every once in a while I decide there was something she cooked…
Burritos The Easy Way
Such a busy weekend ahead. Finishing up the Micro-canning eBook as well as formating and uploading the Guide to Garage Sales eBook. There will be little time to cook. Since I don’t do it that well anyway, I doubt anyone complains! I am going to use one of my fall-back recipes that everyone loves! I…