We Love To Grill….. By “we”, I mean my husband loves to grill and the rest of us love to eat what he has grilled. It all started a little over twelve years ago when I was pregnant with our son. While going to what I thought would be a routine doctor’s appointment,…
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Continue ReadingA Family Favorite We eat A LOT of chicken, so I’m always looking for new ways to prepare it. Several months ago, I came across an interesting chicken sandwich recipe in my favorite magazine, Southern Living. At the end of the recipe, the author mentioned that they taste remarkable like a “well known fast…
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Continue ReadingBefore we moved to Texas we lived in Pennsylvania for ten years. They don’t grow many of the same vegetables that I grew up eating in the South. Their summers are too short to grow things like black eyed peas and okra but one thing they grow well is CORN…acres and acres of corn.…
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Continue Reading“I bet you could make this at home” As much as I love to cook, and my family loves eating at home, we also LOVE to eat out! When our children were younger and could share our meal we did it more often than we do now. One of the places everyone enjoyed going…
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Continue ReadingCornbread and black-eyed peas are traditional Southern foods. Today, we might even call “comfort” foods, but growing up in the South, we just called it “dinner” (which was the big meal eaten sometime between noon and two p.m). What exactly is “comfort food”? According to Wikipedia “comfort food” is traditionally eaten food which often provides a nostalgic…