Category: Blog
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My Potato Salad
For all family events, I am always asked to bring the potato salad. Wanting to share my recipe, I finally put pen to paper and wrote down the ingredients and amounts that I used. I really think boiling the red skinned potato’s whole with the skin on is what makes my salad a little different…
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Basic Canned Tomato Salsa
If you have never canned before, I highly suggest visiting the internet site National Center for Home Food Preservation for detailed instructions on using boiling water canners. To can the salsa, you will use a water bath process. It is very important that you pay close attention to the sterilization of your jars and lids…
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Cucumber and Tomato Salad
This salad is a staple in my refrigerator during the summer. Not only is it delicious but is a great dish to use the abundance of tomato’s, cucumbers and banana peppers from my garden. This salad is great by itself but I also serve it on a lettuce bed adding walnuts and blueberries. You…
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Fiesta Taco Seasoning Mix
I am trying to use less prepackaged mixes in my kitchen and came across this recipe. The website is www.theyummylife.com/taco-seasoning-mix. Be sure to visit this site and check out Monica’s recipes that use this versatile seasoning for more than just taco’s. If you want to make this for a gift, she also has tags that you can…
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Canned Green Beans
Living here in the deep South canning is a much safer way to preserve our garden crops in comparison to freezing them. There is always that threat of a hurricane and being without electricity for 2-3 weeks or the issue of having enough space in your freezer. I must say, I enjoy canning. Not only…
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Sauteed Fresh Green Beans and Leeks
Gardening is one of the most rewarding hobbies that I have. I am still always amazed every time a flower blooms or a vegetable produces, not to mention the reward of being able to walk to my garden and decide what will be prepared for that day’s meal. Today’s meal brought me quite a surprise.…
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Bloody Mary Mix
Bloody Mary’s have always been my cocktail of choice. Since our recent visit to New Orleans, I have been thinking of preparing my favorite recipe for this drink. This is by far, the very best recipe I have found and is fantastic with or without the vodka. It keeps indefinitely but I usually freeze half…
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Quick Lemon Tart
I have been out of town for work this past week at a National Convention. Returning home, I am feeling a little frazzled. Maybe because next weekend we will be attending the French Quarter Festival in New Orleans and I have a million task that I need to accomplish at home and at work before leaving…
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Pralines (Microwave)
My family loves visiting New Orleans anytime of the year and often take day or weekend trips. As soon as we get in the car, excitement increases as we start talking about what food we are craving or restaurants we want to visit. There is no better place in the world to eat and party than…
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Spring is in the air!
Thank goodness, winter is coming to a close here in the Deep South. Spring is in the air and it happens to be my favorite season. Every afternoon, after a long day at work, I love walking around our property taking note of which plants are beginning to peak out from their long winter’s nap. I am always…
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Chicken Pot Pie
When I was growing up one of my very best childhood friends was and still is Betty Jane. We were inseparable. We did everything together from romping in the wood’s to attending dancing lessons together. I laugh to this day thinking what “Tom Boys” we were at times and then we would transform into these frilly little girls at…
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Plum Cake
Elizabeth Gates was one of my mother’s best friends and I have many recipe’s in my collection from her. Remembering back, I think that my mom and her where always in a fun competition with cooking and sewing. They really enjoyed baking and baked cakes every Friday. Gates as we called her, her husband Hannis, and my…