Easy Rocky Road Candy is a quick, fun gift from the kitchen that can be made in a flash! Perfect to make with your kids and as a gift for teachers and friends! I'm always astonished to find myself at the beginning of October thinking about the impending holiday season. It always sneaks up on me. You would think that after nearly 40 years on this Earth I wouldn't be ...
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Easy Orange Julius Recipe
Channel your inner mall-rat and whip up a batch of Orange Julius! Perfect for your 80's and 90's themed party (or Stranger Things marathon!) Ok, full disclosure....I am a child of the 80's and 90's. I spent a HUGE amount of time at the Bellevue Mall in Nashville when I was a teenager. I shopped at the Gap, I got my ears pierced at Claire's and every single time we ...
Keto Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Popsicles
This Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Popsicle is a deliciously sweet, keto twist on the classic ice cream flavor in popsicle form! This recipe from the new book, For the Love of Popsicles, will be one you are going to make all summer long! After swan diving off of the keto diet several months ago, I have been recently determined to claw my way back onto the bandwagon and get ...
Southern Woodford Pudding
My grandmother grew up in the backwoods of Tennessee as a farmer's daughter. Her family worked hard for what little they could earn and made the most of what they had. She's told me stories of growing up way out in the "sticks" and the times she had. She has shared some of her recipes with me and given me her wisdom on canning and "putting up". Not to mention, I spent the ...
Cast Iron Southern Fried Apples
I would like to talk to you about something near and dear to my heart. Cast Iron. I love my cast iron.It is an unspoken rule of the South that any woman who is about to be married should receive two very important pieces: a deviled egg plate and a cast iron skillet. I got both. Since I have been married I have added a couple pieces to my cast iron repertoire. Another skillet ...
The Best Chocolate Chip Keto Brownies
I am trying for the second time in my life to get my butt back into ketosis. I fell off the wagon this past summer and now that school is back and harvest is over and life has returned to some kind of normal, I am doing my best to get back on my keto journey....and its hard. The hardest part is the sugar withdrawls in the beginning. Typically I am not a big sweets eater, ...
Old Fashioned Lemon Chess Pie Recipe
“Easy as pie” is something that gets tossed around a lot in conversation. It’s the idea that something is so simple that any average Joe could pull it off. “Pie” is apparently the epitome of something easy and I am here to defend that stance and demand that we all make more pie. Unlike cake, pie is usually a one bowl, one pan, one handed project, at least, after the crust is ...
Best Blueberry Peach Coffee Cake
I don’t know who in the line of history turned cake into a breakfast food, but I applaud them. With no mind for health or social standards, the woman (for it must have been a woman) who made cake for breakfast a thing and turned our childhood dream into reality should be considered a hero. By merely putting the word “coffee” in front of “cake” dessert was transformed into an ...
Sugar Free Meringues with Orange Mascarpone Cream
This post may contain affiliate links which means that I may make a very small amount of money should you purchase any linked product at no additional cost to you. So far on this keto diet I have dropped 12 pounds which for me is pretty amazing. I just don't lose weight easily. I think I could go on a 30 day fast, go back to eating, and then gain every ounce back by the end ...
Mini Strawberry Jam Cupcakes
The jig is up for me. It seems the teachers have put two and two together and are taking advantage of it. No longer do I get the easy job of providing plates or juice boxes for the holiday classroom parties, I am now slated for the task of providing the good stuff. Ok, maybe it’s not that bad, but if this past Christmas was any indication I am betting that I will be asked ...
Upside Down Pear Cake
I’ve been on a pear kick lately. This is a strange thing for me because, well, I don’t really like pears. I mean they are kind of like an apple but not an apple. They are juicier which is good, but they sometimes have a weird grainy texture that makes me cringe a little. I don’t mind cooked pears but this fat bottomed fruit is not the first thing I reach for in the produce ...
5 Minute Basil Peach FroYo
Quick and easy, this Basil Peach FroYo is a guiltless way to have your ice cream and eat it too! It takes nearly no time to whip together and is so healthy you could eat it for breakfast. The dog days of summer are here. All the heat and humidity that we Southerners love to hate has arrived. We walk around in as little clothing as we can without offending our grandmothers, we ...
Little Peach Picnic Cakes
Little Peach Picnic Cakes are the perfect eat with your fingers picnic dessert. Whip up a batch of these adorable desserts and take them with you on your next adventure! Cake is a dangerous thing to have in my house. Well, it’s dangerous for me anyway. The kids and the husband don’t seem to have a problem with it. Why so dangerous? Because I love cake. I will ...
Strawberries with Cinnamon Cream
Strawberries with Cinnamon Cream is a simple and elegant fruit dessert for warm spring days. Sweet berries topped with the tangy cinnamon cream are a match made in heaven. And it only takes minutes to whip up! So...Mother's Day is this coming weekend. It won't be long until the aisles of every Hallmark store will be jam packed full of people agonizing over just the right ...
Pumpkin Cupcakes w/ Molasses Cream Cheese Filling
I've been racking my brain for the last few days about what to cook that has pumpkin in it. I mean it's Fall for cryin' out loud! I should be covered up with pumpkin everything!! So, after much turmoil and contemplation I decided pumpkin cupcakes were in order. But how to make them different? How to make them stand out from the crowd? It was then that I remembered my Great Aunt ...