Recipes
Oatmeal Blueberry Bread
This has been a super long week. My grandfather passed away last weekend and I spent part of the week in Texas. And when you come home from a week in Texas, you always come home with a cooler of leftovers. I'm ok with leftovers so that's usually a good deal for me!...
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie You’ll Ever Eat
It seems so trivial, yet as a foodie and baker developing The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie was a high priority. Why other things did not fall on the list, I don't know. Maybe I'll try a brownie next. Some might call it the absolute best chocolate chip cookie or the...
ice church maple cinnamon scones
I woke up yesterday morning determined to redeem myself. After the catastrophe that was my Friday experiment, I was determined to get it right. And after my pal Debbie posted her amazing cinnamon rolls yesterday I knew that was it. Going to bed on...
Mexican Chicken Stew
For two weeks I've been wanting homemade soup. I was all ready last weekend and the lazy bug kicked in so it didn't happen. But the almost blizzard conditions (remember I'm from TX) that blew in to Northwest Arkansas on Friday left me freezing to my bones and...
Homemade Marinara
Yesterday, I posted about the Sausage, Spinach and Ricotta Calzones that I made over the weekend. I was completely inspired by an episode of Pioneer Woman that I watched on Saturday. But, I couldn't just make the calzones without something homemade to dip them in....
Spinach, Sausage, and Ricotta Calzone
Spinach, Sausage and Ricotta Calzone - sounds like a perfectly simple Saturday after, right? You see, what had happened was. After I got home from our Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk yesterday morning and spending the afternoon with my aunt and uncle at...
caramelized
So, I've always loved carmelized onions. Never been a fan of raw onions..like when people eat a chunk of onion with their catfish...yuck. But cooked onions...always there. I always cook onions for pasta or stir-fry, enchiladas or fajitas. ...
Strawberry dreams
22 years ago I was sitting in the lobby of a hospital in Dallas coloring wrapping paper with my sister. (back then you could safely leave your kids in a hospital lobby and not worry about them!) we were there because my grandmother was going through experimental...















