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  • We Eat with Our Eyes Too

    Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Above: Chicken noodle Soup and pizza with veggies and sausage The chicken noodle recipe is below. The pizza is for color. I’ll share that another day!  I recently saw a friend’s Facebook post, showing a meal this person loved, which was served at a local restaurant. Since I read the post… Read more

  • THE Sauce….Strawberry-Rhubarb – It’s what’s for dessert!

    Sunday, July 12, 2020 Maybe you have heard me talk about ‘the sauce’. Well…it’s the bomb. This is the Strawberry-Rhubarb sauce that I make when Terry and I just want something to put on ice cream or it’s so wonderful with pound cake, sauce and some cool whip. And ice cream. Don’t judge! It’s amazing!… Read more

  • Brunswick Stew – First tasted in NC, made in KY!

    Tuesday, June 23, 2020 Brunswick Stew is a hearty dish!  I looked up its origin and found it’s been around since 1898, and most likely first made in Georgia. I remember it as one of my grandmother’s (Meme) dishes. Actually I remember the one time so I really don’t know if she perfected it by… Read more

  • Basic Pimento Cheese

    Wednesday, June 17, 2020 Pimento Cheese….it’s a real southern thing! And it seems like everyone has their own take on it, including me! Well, I mix it up sometimes, depending on my partakers. For instance Allie dislikes mayonnaise so when she is around, I make it with more cream cheese/sour cream than mayo. When Steve… Read more

  • Trying Times calls for Creative Menu Planning! March 2020

    Friday, March 20, 2020 Hi friends, family and people of the blogs! I’m home, like the rest of the world, working, living, and amusing myself with what I love to do: EAT! Unlike some of you I like to COOK what I eat. I’d invite you over, but the COVID 19 Pandemic says I cannot.… Read more

  • Tomato-Zucchini Pie

    Sunday, June 30, 2019 It’s was hot summer day and I still wanted to turn on the oven and bake. I have tried sewing instead, but I love to cook, so I allowed myself to indulge! Today’s recipe is a mash up of several, but it comes mostly from the current July 2019 issue of Southern… Read more

  • Recipe for Marriage

    Monday, November 6, 2017 A few weeks ago today, daughter Allie married her love, Jordan Keeney. If this isn’t a ‘recipe for grace’ I do not know of one! These two are marvelous together and if I could write a recipe for grace about them and FOR them, it would go like this: A happy… Read more

  • Spanish Rice, passed down from Mom

    Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Spanish Rice, the way Barbara Ham Stephens made it!  It’s funny: I never think of making this for anyone unless I’m missing Mom. I make it for Dad when I visit, usually. I make it when asked. But my kids don’t know much about it because I make it more for… Read more

  • Pumpkin Bars and Cream cheese Icing, from scratch – The work of Barbara Stephens, passed down.

    Saturday, October 19, 2013 It’s fall, 2013. The day dawned chilly with a promise of sunshine to come later in the day. Maybe…Meanwhile, I pulled down mom’s recipes, determined to bake from the original version of my mother’s pumpkin bars. Yes, her recipe is much like any found on the web, these days. Here’s the… Read more

  • Spaetzle anyone?

    Tuesday, July 2, 2013 Have you eaten spaetzle yet? If not, I am recommmending it!! I first found this wonderful pasta/noodle extraordinaire in Germany. Or was it in Austria that I first ate this interesting noodle with its crooked looks and awesome texture? I am not sure about the very first bite, because once I… Read more