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...]
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...]
Crawfish Pot Pie
I do love crawfish...being from Mississippi can't really help it...Well I do! I can remember many times as a kid getting a bag of 5 lbs and eating them all by my self. I do love them...I do! But, the thought of a crawfish pie never really occurred to me. Well, I was visiting down at Watercolor last … [Read more...]
Toblerone Short Bread Cookies
Okay, I have been baking away this week...how about you? Well, you ask why no post well...see I made many of the same things last year. You can see them in old post just look over to your right. See I have old favorites and everybody wants the same thing from year to year. I let everyone pick one … [Read more...]
The Great Cookie Swap 2012
I am participating in a blog cookie swap. I bake 3 dozen cookies and send one dozen to three different bloggers in different parts of the country. They do not know who has their name and I do not know who has my name. The best part of all is I get cookies from 3 different bloggers. It is like secret … [Read more...]
Christmas Gingerbread House
I wish you could be here, stop on by the house smells so wonderful the christmas music is playing loudly in the back ground...lovely. I love gingerbread houses....why it brings back such sweet memories. My sweet little granny would make one each year for Christmas. After lunch on Christmas Day we … [Read more...]
Southern Cornbread
Cornbread is one thing I love but....yea....there is a but....I like mine made with white corn mill. Corn mill that is ground the old fashioned way. Kinda course and larger than the factory in the bag kind. No, I do not like it sweet either. This is the way my grand mother made hers. I love it … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Spice Bread
Happy Fall Y'all !! We love pumpkin bread at our house or pumpkin muffins. Have you ever had the pumpkin muffins at Panera Bread? These are like those minus the topping but we sprinkle with powdered sugar which is better. They are great just as they are or toasted and spread with a little pumpkin … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Creamy Oatmeal
When the weather turns cool outside, I love to have oatmeal. I prefer the steel cut oats to any other kind they have a nutty flavor ...but it takes so long to cook. I have started cooking it in the crock pot or slow cooker. I put it in the night before and it is ready when we get up in the morning. … [Read more...]
The New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies
Okay, I have heard so much about this New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe....I had to give them a whirl for myself. From the ingredient list there is nothing out of the ordinary. The big thing with these cookies is this are you ready for this ~ you have to make them and let the dough sit for … [Read more...]
Home Made Blinis with Smoked Salmon
I love blinis {BLee-nee}. I have tried to make blini many times over the years with many different recipes. I have used all sorts of different flours from buckwheat to whole wheat. I would end up throwing them away, they would be so heavy and gross. Now why couldn't I master these silly little … [Read more...]
Flaky Pie Crust Recipe
Yes...I use lard and you should too makes the crust so much better really does! You can taste the difference but I do not add much in my recipe. I use this pie crust for everything. Blue Berry....Apple....Chocolate....Chicken Pot Pie everything even tart recipes it is a great easy go to pie crust. I … [Read more...]
Cuban Bread ~ This is soooo easy!
This is such an amazing bread. It is so crunchy on the out side and soft on the inside. I make it in the bread machine and finnish off in the oven. It has NO FAT in the bread recipe making this an amazing bread recipe to me! I love it, this is such a hit at my house and has been for years and years. … [Read more...]
Bread Pudding with Wild Turkey Sauce
This recipe is one I have had and used for many years. Like 20 years...yea, like a long time. I took a cooking class from a young man named Glen Butler. I loved taking classes from him ~ why....he was a wonderful cook and a wonderful entertainer. He had such fun stories to tell. He at one time … [Read more...]
Chocolate ~ Chocolate Cake
This is one of my favorite cakes to make. It is a chocolate cake with a chocolate icing. It is chocolaty but not to overly chocolate or rich. It has a hint of coffee in it but not an over powering flavor. It is just right in every way....love it, love it!! Chocolate Cake 1 3/4 cups all~purpose … [Read more...]
Banana Bread
This is such an old recipe...oh dear me someone gave me this before I got married...now that was a long time ago. It is a great one easy not to much fuss and yet it is a good banana bread. Great way to use those ole bananas. But, we wanted to make the banana bread and the bananas kept disappearing … [Read more...]
Birthday Cake…Happy Birthday Baby!!
Today is my babies birthday....Happy Birthday to you!! Happy Birthday to you! Today my baby is "18" the big 18 wow wew where oh where did the time go ~ flew by! I cannot believe he is 18!! This is the cake I made last night, he usually wants coconut but he said I am tired of that. I ask what do you … [Read more...]
Chewy Brownies…..Yay Success !
I have made so, so many different batches of brownies Okay....let's just say I stopped counting on 17. CRAZY!! See I have been on a mission to find a great brownie. I loved the Duncan Hines box ~ yep I did well they changed their formula. I even wrote them countless times about this THEY just did … [Read more...]
Southern Buttermilk Biscuits
I have been working on a biscuit recipe for some times and want to find a go to recipe that I can stick with...and this is pretty close so from time to time you will see it change. I have another I love but da gum it is a lot of work but it is wonderful so I have to get it to an everyday version one … [Read more...]