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  • Layered Lemon-Pineapple Jello Delight

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  • You Know, I was just thinking…

    Food is how I feel but it’s not all I feel. Does that make sense? It’s been quite a summer, 2025, hasn’t it? And now we are fully into fall and I am feeling all the fall feels….pumpkin and cider and apple images are dancing in my head and I’m not too happy about losing Read more

  • When in doubt, make a tomato pie, or quiche!

    I find myself at a crossroads about food, summer heat and also this: I’m worried about some loved ones. Can they get some relief? Thanks in advance, Creator God of all things loving and loved. First things first: I have one dear one who passed away and I am SO very sad that she passed Read more

  • To take or not to take initiative?

    Grace has been escaping me lately and I am stuck literally and figuratively. I am muddling about in some sort of quagmire that I cannot name, cannot put my finger on and therefore, I am going to attempt this writing to see if I can wade out of my current mental state that feels slushy Read more

  • Like Mama Made Them

    Simple is Better and Homemade is Best! Sandwiches for Summer I remember mom’s pimento cheese and also her olive cream cheese sandwiches like it was yesterday and sadly, it wasn’t. But I can taste them with a mouth watering yearning as if she just made them for me on a sunny summer afternoon, recently. Mom Read more

  • May Memories, Mother’s Day and Mud Cake

    Mom’s the word! I’ve had writer’s block. It’s not a big deal because other than this blog and a future recipe book I have no deadlines. However, I pride myself in being a decent writer. I used to write poems and songs. For the longest time, I have had a journal that I write in Read more

  • The BEST Cornbread

    I first had this at a church retreat, made by our friend Norrie Wake. He has since passed away and his lovely wife Nancy is now in Rhode Island, living near family. We miss them both very much. As promised, here is the recipe that goes with yesterday’s post about sharing food with loved ones. Read more

  • Kindness is making and sharing a good batch of cornbread, and by the way, meaningful visits are the spice of life.

    (Just sayin’. ) I have so many random thoughts in my head that I thought I’d write some of them here. They come from a good and happy place, or maybe I’m just trying to delay cleaning a room in my house. Either way, it’s ok, right? First of all, I do realize that I Read more

  • Take me home, coastal roads and send comfort ahead of me.

    Or eat comfort food. Or go to the coast. You deserve both! There’s a recipe at the bottom for Pollo Picante, a favorite comfort food. I don’t really know what to say but it’s weighing heavy on my mind that a friend of mine is suffering and another friend has suffered greatly too, this past Read more

  • Reflect or Connect?

    The question I’m using to leave 2024 and enter 2025 I don’t know about you but I am ready for this new year! And why not be ready for it? It will happen, ready or not. Time. It marches on doesn’t it? So here goes a few thoughts as I ring in the year 2025. Read more