There’s nothing more refreshing on a hot summer day than vegetables fresh from the garden! A few days ago, our breakfast conversation turned to the subject of vegetable gardens. My husband and I were explaining to our children that our grandparents ALWAYS had a large garden. They lived in the country so they had room…
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Continue ReadingFor little girls, there’s nothing quite like a “tea party”. I had plenty of them with my dolls and pretend friends. My daughters did as well. Sometimes we would even have “real” tea parties with Grandma at her house. She collected beautiful tea cups and would let the girls choose which one they would drink…
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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.…