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 ...
summertime
Summer Granita
I don't know about where you live, but where I live it is stupid hot. Not "so hot it makes you stupid" ( although it will do that), it's more like temperatures are so incredibly high that it's ridiculous. Or, as they say, stupid. I mean 112 degrees?! Really! Did I accidentally wake up in Death Valley? Thank goodness I have an extra well just for the garden, because my poor ...
Strawberry Peach Limeade
Strawberry Peach Limeade is an easy summer beverage to whip up for a warm Summer day! Add an ounce of vodka to your glass to make it a delicious adult beverage! I have spent the entire day moving my parents out of their old house and into their new one. The house that they built themselves 30 years ago will now be solely dedicated to being a winery and my parents will now ...
Fruit Smoothies
Amazingly enough, I have managed to stick to my goal of getting healthy for a whole month now. Not that I haven't cheated. I have. More than I would probably like to admit. That whole 30th birthday week was pretty much a fattening food and quite a bit of wine free-for-all. But two weeks of guilt and lots of exercise and I am finally back on track. That being said I am ...
Homemade Cucumber Relish
Thity-three quarts of green beans, 9 quarts of tomtoes, 7 pints, black eye peas, 8 pints of cucumber relish, 7 pints of kosher dill pickles and 2 gallons of sauerkraut fermenting in my utility room.Our stockpile shelves that have very sparse since we moved are now busting at the seams. I have been on a canning bender. I think I may have a "problem" because I just can't ...
Asian Chicken Finger Drumsticks
The buzz is in the air. I think it has come with the cooler - if 89 degrees can be called "cooler" - temperatures. It's been tweeted, facebooked, and sent around in emails everywhere...football season is nearly here! More so than baseball, football is America's favorite past time. Or maybe I should say eating while watching football is America's favorite past time. There is ...
Roasted Chicken and Tomatoes
So, back in the spring, I bought a couple tomato plants at KMart and planted those tomato plants in the 3 square foot sunny spot in my yard. ( Really, that's all the sunny space I have) Well, they have become quite prolific. In the last week I have picked 7 or 8 tomatoes and I have probably another 10 or 15 that are still on the bush. So, for the last week I have been eating ...
BBQ Bacon Wrapped Shrimp
I'm going to give all you single ladies out there a little advice on what to look for in a husband. First, he has to have a job or at least a marketable skill. No free-loaders. Second, he's gotta be good with kids, even if you don't plan on having any. Why? Because accidents happen and you don't want to be with a guy who doesn't like kids. Third, and most importantly, ...
Lemon-Lime Sun Tea
Lemon-Lime Sun Tea is a simple Southern specialty. Take advantage of the summer sun and brew yourself a nice jug of fresh tea outside. When I was a little girl, my parent's house was much smaller than it is today. The back of the kitchen was the laundry room which was directly in front of the east facing back door. There were black iron steps that connected the ...