One of the great things about going out to eat….appetizers! Appetizers are a wonderful invention! Who came up with them anyway? The French? It sounds like a “French” word, maybe? And what does it mean? I have an idea…”reason to eat something really yummy before dinner”….but only at a restaurant. What do we call it…
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Continue ReadingMy favorite DFW cultural venue…Bass Hall My husband and I have tried to cultivate in ourselves and our children a love and appreciation for good music and art. We are blessed to live in an area rich in “cultural” events. A wide variety of museums, plays, symphonies and traveling exhibits are within minutes of our…
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Continue ReadingTechnically it’s Fall, but here it’s warm again, and as long as it’s warm we might as well have ice cream, right? As I was preparing to have our church ladies over, I remembered this dessert. It had been YEARS since I’d made it. In fact, so many years my children didn’t remember ever…
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Continue ReadingYesterday’s recipe was Homemade Egg Rolls. What goes better with egg rolls than Sweet and Sour Sauce? One thing I have discovered about having a food blog….it forces me to measure ingredients AND write them down. You see, I’m not usually good about that. I like to “eyeball” measurements, and while that works fine…
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Continue ReadingGrowing up we didn’t eat a lot of “international” type foods. We did frequent the local Mexican restaurant, but it was a real treat if we went to have Chinese food. I always enjoyed the egg rolls, but since this was before the days of “fast food” Chinese, I didn’t get them very often.…