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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

  • 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

  • My Cream of Veggie Soup

    I created a soup today! I wanted to begin using vegetables that I have avoided for much of my life. Today, it was fennel that I incorporated into a recipe! I loved it! I’m sorry that I’ve avoided it for so long. But there’s no time like the present to add it into my cooking Read more

  • Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce

    Learned this recipe at a cooking class in New Orleans – I’ve made it many times since! Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce This is my first AI image of bread pudding because for the life of me, I cannot find a picture of this when I have made it! I think we eat it up Read more

  • This is the best dressing/stuffing for your Thanksgiving

    I kid you not! (Also read this as “I know, I know….we all think we make the best dressing.) This is my family’s recipe from mom’s side of the family, back in NC! Now then, let’s get started, shall we? I watched Meme, that’s mom’s mom, make this and then I watched Mom make it Read more

  • Pumpkin Bread with a side of Gratefulness

    Monday, November 4, 2024 Pumpkin bread, pictured with butter on top, plus butternut squash soup I recently made this delicious pumpkin bread and I thought that it turned out better than usual. I made it to share and so far some of it made its way to my daughter’s house, but that’s as far as Read more

  • So, what are you eating these days? I’m making green chili- egg and cheese casserole! It’s Eggstroidinaire-y!

    Saturday, October 26, 2024 I’ve been cooking up many dishes lately! I tried to think of what might inspire YOU, to open your fridge and pull out ingredients.  I look like a Kroger advertiser!  I decided that the recipe that I get the most enjoyment from is this one, lately. I am calling it Chili Read more