A 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…
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Continue ReadingWhat did we get when we had a Summer Time Party for sixteen to twenty-one year old’s? Easy Chicken Teriyaki STIR FRY! How does that happen? In the process of planning this party we (Ok, maybe just me) had the “bright” idea to serve a veggie tray. People love that, right? In fact, just a couple of…