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Tasty Tuesday: Classic Pound Cake
Some recipes are so simple and so classic that they just sort of stand alone as fabulous food. This pound cake is one of those recipes. A lady from my church, Robyn, brings this pound cake to every potluck and it vanishes in the twinkling of an eye. Everyone EXPECTS Robyn to bring this pound cake. When I asked Robyn for the recipe for this pound cake,
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Tasty Tuesday: Summer Vegetable Casserole
Nearly 25 years ago, I was blessed to marry into a family that takes food Very Seriously. Some of my best recipes over the years have come from one or another of my in-laws. Today’s recipe comes from my mother-in-law, Jean. If SHE sends me a recipe, I know I need to try it and I know it’s
Tasty Tuesday: Chicken Salads
Chicken Salad has been starring in my kitchen every night this past week. I keep finding recipes that are so delicious that we eat ourselves silly. The first Chicken Salad is a Wild Rice Chicken Salad
Tasty Tuesday: Lobster Corn Bisque
I’ve always wondered what a BISQUE really is. I know that the term shows up on the menu at nice restaurants and not on the cans on the soup aisle. So I went hunting for the definition and decided it was definitely what we were shooting for when we came home with over a pound of leftover shrimp,
Tasty Tuesday: Partial Pecks of Pickled Peppers
We recently bought 4 quarts of fresh jalapeno peppers. We love jalepenos and my amazing husband canned this particular pile of peppers. I thought I’d share with you just how he did this because these are wonderful to keep on hand! Canned Jalapenos (Pickled)
Tasty Tuesday: Heat Wave Salad
It’s too hot to cook. It feels like it’s been too hot to cook for about 9 YEARS now. And yes, I know that next March, I will be complaining about how long and cold winter is, but right now that snow sure sounds wonderful. I’m on my third day of absolutely NO cooking and I’m feelin’
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Tasty Tuesday: Cornbread and its many variations
There are two ways to eat cornbread. You can go spicy with different chiles or peppers in the cornbread. Or you can go sweet and make cornbread that you eat with butter and honey or jam. I remember eating cornbread with butter and maple syrup when I was a little girl. It was never my favorite, so as
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Tasty Tuesday: oops, it happened again!
Oh no! It’s Tasty FRIDAY! Many apologies for losing such complete track of the days of the week! I arrived home from vacation last weekend to a broken washing machine, three weeks of vacation laundry, no groceries in the house, and houseguests due to arrive on Wednesday. I went into total panic
Tomato Pie Recipe, from High Country Mom Kim Soucek
My friend, and High Country Mom, Kim Soucek posted this recipe on Facebook, and I had to ask her if I could share it with you all! We have tons of tomatoes growing in our garden, and hopefully the blight won’t attack like it did last year!
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Tasty Tuesday: Warm Sunday Evenings on the Front Porch
Some summer evenings are just too warm for a hot meal and today was one of those days. We eat most of our meals out on our front porch at this time of year. Tonight my goal was to create dinner out of the contents of my fridge and NOT use my oven or stove. Once I actually got going, it was pretty easy
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