We love rice pudding at our house and we also love eggnog. We decided to combine the 2 and here is our version of two old favorites. This is a great make ahead festive Christmas dessert. Eggnog Rice Pudding 3/4 cup arborio rice or mahatma jasmine rice 2 cups water 1 teaspoon fresh orange … [Read more...]
Angie’s Cream Cheese Pound Cake
We all love pound cake here at our house. This is an old recipe and I have seen many versions of this recipe each just a little different in some way. This is a great one, easy, turns out each and every time. One trick I have learned is to heat the oven to 300 and once you put the cake in the oven … [Read more...]
Creamy Peanut Butter Pie
We had a guest coming to spend the night and I was told they really liked peanut butter. Yea! See, Mr. Fix it does not like peanut butter so I never get the chance to make any thing with peanut butter. I wanted to make an ole fashioned peanut butter pie. This is an ole version of the cream cheese … [Read more...]
Creamed Spinach
We at our house love creamed spinach. But, leave it to me to make spinach unhealthily hee hee oh well da gum it is really good any one would eat it this way. Believe me!! It is so, so good. This is a great make ahead dish for a dinner party too as a side dish. It comes out every time and holds … [Read more...]
Magic Cake Layer Bars
This is a layer cake I made for our coffee hour this week. I have had this cake recipe a really long time. Did not plan to post but had several request so here is the recipe. This cake recipe and similar ones are all over Pinterest. It really does as the title says it is like magic. This cake is … [Read more...]
Layered Orange Congealed Salad
This is a dish we call church ladie food...yep have you ever heard that term before? Well, it is a country term for a dish you would get at a church pot luck dinner or funeral food. I went to an funeral last week and they had some of the best food. We all loved the congealed orange salad which in … [Read more...]
Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler…..yum!
Oh my you will love this recipe, I hope you will try it. I have never been a real big consumer of cobbler...until the other day. A friend and I went to lunch together and we had a version very similar to this one. I came home and got busy, remember that pavlova from a few days ago with the same … [Read more...]
School Cafeteria Yeast Rolls
I had a sweet reader contact me and share a wonderful recipe with me.....Thank you, Barbara Wright!! Barbara says, this recipe came from the high school where her mother taught Home Economics. This is the first yeast bread recipe she ever used. Makes great yeast rolls or cinnamon rolls. So, I had … [Read more...]
Buttermilk Waffles
<br< Well....When we go to my mom and dad's house you can bet we will have blue berry waffles at least once while we are there. This is my favorite recipe for waffles, this recipe is a keeper. The waffles always come out crispy on the out side, soft and fluffy on the inside. The buttermilk … [Read more...]
Red, White and Blue…Yogurt Parfait
My parents have a blueberry orchard. The bushes have gotten larger each year, they are now larger than fruit trees. This year with all the rain we have gotten the bushes are just loaded with blueberries. They have many bushes, they have some that have just volunteered over the years, a volunteer is … [Read more...]
Strawberry Rhubarb Pavlova
Oh how I love pavlovas! Have you ever had one? Oh Goodness, you are surely missing out if you haven't ? This is one I made for a wedding shoot last week. Pavlovas are light yet crunchy, creamy with that little bit of whipped cream and then the fruit element just puts it over the top. I do love the … [Read more...]
Southern Creamy Pralines
These are so amazing and believe it or not they are pretty easy to make....really! I grew up 90 minutes from New Orleans. I have tried many and I mean many different pralines. Some yum ~ O and some not ~ O, I have tried many countless recipes as well. Some are great if the weather is cool and it has … [Read more...]
Meringue Cookies
These cookies are so very pretty and make such a beautiful presentation. They are great for a special party, shower or tea party. These are great to make a head. You can make them any color to match your party theme... … [Read more...]
Son Graduated Today……Fly little birdie
Today at our house it is a big day….Son is graduating from High School. Soon things will change here for ever. He will leave for college over 6 hours away. Some friends and I were sitting around discussing why is it such a big deal made over kids graduating from high school ~ Really ? Well, the … [Read more...]
Sweet Bread / Portuguese Sweet Bread
We call this bread Paul Bunyan bread. Why it is incredibly large, you would just have to see it to really understand how big it is after it is baked. This bread is so light, incredibly soft and smells so intoxicating. It is wonderful all by it's self and even better with jam or butter. I take fresh … [Read more...]
Creamy Key Lime Pie
I was never a great big fan of key lime pie.....I don't know WHY? But, I have come to my senses and well I do really like them now. Since, I did not care for them, I did not have many recipes for key lime so here we go. I love the one at BrickTops, they have a macadamia nut cookie crust so that was … [Read more...]
The Masters Egg Salad and Pimento Cheese
Oh Goodness....We had the opportunity to go to the Masters Golf Tournament last week. Saturday was simply the prettiest day ever for me at the Masters. The grass was so vividly green, with all the azaleas in bloom in such wide arrays of colors. They had wisteria blooms hanging from the trees. It was … [Read more...]
Grady’s Restaurant House Salad
This is a great salad has a wonderful combination of ingredients in it. We would go to Grady's every week to get this salad and the grilled salmon oh goodness was so good. But, they got bought out by a big chain restaurant. Don't just hate that...I do? They did not have the level of service or food … [Read more...]
Roast Beef Sandwiches
Oh goodness these are so yumo. I will make a pot roast just to have these babies! Oh goodness they are deelightful! I take left over pot roast and the home made school rolls. This is a winning combo! I take the rolls butter them on both sides and place them on a hot griddle and toast them just … [Read more...]
Lunch Room Rolls
Do you remember the rolls they served in the lunch room? Oh my I do, I did love them. I do have such fond memories of those rolls. The little school I went to, served square or rectangle rolls and they were rather large. I looked forward to those rolls each and every day. Some times I could trade my … [Read more...]
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