Easter is almost here, so it’s a perfect time to share a recipe called Resurrection “Empty Tomb” Biscuits. And you’ll never believe how I ended up with the recipe in the first place. My good friend Nancy is an avid reader, and so am I. Recently she told me about a book she said I […]
Applesauce Rosemary Cake…A Match Made In Heaven!
I love my herb garden and I’m always looking for new ways to incorporate fresh herbs into my cooking and baking. So I stepped outside to snip some fresh rosemary to add to this cake I created…and that rosemary turned out to be the star of the show! Last month there was a knock on […]
Try My Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting
Ideas for my blog posts sometimes come to me in crazy ways…like today. This coconut tree next door was my inspiration. (Yup…a coconut tree!) This was a gorgeous morning here in the Sunshine State, and I walked out on our deck to sip my coffee and to soak up some rays as I thought about […]
A Lalaloopsy Baking Oven ORDEAL!
Before we close the books on our 2016 holiday season and move on to our Outback Bowl road trip…Please allow me to re-live a baking adventure from our Christmas day 2015. I still have to laugh when I remember these oven baking results with grandgirl “Little Sis”. It just goes to show…not every Christmas gift […]
Meemaw Asks…Who Invented Birthday Cake?
Thanks to ALL of you who sent birthday wishes my way as I reached my latest milestone! I was looking through old photos, and I found this gem from a party long ago. I have no idea who’s birthday we were about to celebrate, but judging from the number of candles it was nobody in […]
Our Farmhouse Holiday Dinner…Food For My Soul
The holidays are a VERY busy time for all of us. And sometimes it’s nice to take some time and relive special moments from the past…like this wonderful holiday dinner we enjoyed with my brother Tom and his wife Barb several years ago. Barb’s recipes were delicious…and sharing that meal around the table in the […]
Banana Bars With Cream Cheese Frosting
I am usually far too optimistic when it comes to buying bananas. Those big bunches of yellow beauties BEG me to take them home with me…and I do. And there they remain…staring at me from our fruit bowl on the counter. Day after day. Until that lovely yellow bunch become an unappealing shade of…NOT yellow! […]
Top 10 Desserts of 2015
You came, you saw, you drooled. Drumroll please…..here are my top 10 dessert recipes of 2015! These are the recipes you, dearest readers, loved the most: 1. Chocolate Waffle Iron Cookies These cookies take so little time to make and even less time to disappear. They taste like moist, delicious chocolate cake. There’s nothing bad about that. Nothing […]
Tart Cherry Crumble
I couldn’t find a recipe that used the ingredients I had on hand…so I combined several ideas and made up my own… PREHEAT OVEN TO 350 DEGREES… In a saucepan combine 2 cups pitted tart cherries with the juice 2 T. corn starch a pinch of salt Heaping 1/4 C. sugar Heaping 1/4 C. brown […]
Lemon Zucchini Cake
There is something rather sinful about eating cake for breakfast. But when the cake contains a vegetable like zucchini I guess it’s ok…especially when it tastes SO GOOD. All the yums. Thanks to my Sis In Law Lucy’s friend for sharing this recipe (and this cake) with her…and thanks to Lucy for sharing it (and the […]