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Bonus Recipe: Pumpkin Mousse
Happy Thanksgiving Week Everyone! Here’s one of my favorite pumpkin recipes from a while back. It’s so smooth and creamy! Pumpkin Mousse 2 cups heavy whipping cream 1 package low fat cream cheese,...
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Wrap It up People!
Wrap It up People! We all have gifts to wrap. You could wrap yours alone while watching Bing Crosby in White Christmas in the middle of the night (personally, I don’t know who does that). That sounds...
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Dragging out the Inevitable
Well, it’s about time to report on the garden. We have had small successes like the lettuce, small failures like the tomatoes, and states of limbo like the Brussels sprouts. Mother Nature has...
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Vintage Housewife Wedding Shower
Everything old is new again and some things never go out of style…two concepts that make for a perfect party! This is especially true for a vintage-themed bridal shower. Vintage, mid-century or 1950s...
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King Cakes Anyone Can Make
A braided yeast cake can seem pretty adventurous for an amateur baker, but I’ve recently discovered it really isn’t that hard. You just need a little patience. Okay, maybe a lot of patience; but, like...
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Brussels Last Stand
We’re still getting a little lettuce from the garden, but this weekend I gathered up enough Brussels for one serving of maple bacon spouts for dinner. These little plants have slowly been growing...
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Spring’s Coming Early, Right?
It took me precisely two hours from when I saw the Inner Circle drag that poor little groundhog out of his burrow to get myself dressed, haul my kids to the farmer’s market, purchase two tomato plants...
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Bonus Recipe: Buffalo Mac and Bleu
This recipe originated from my interview with the Casserole Queen and it always gets rave reviews. I have made the slight modification of adding chicken and bacon to it; and, I divided the original...
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Eggselent Easter Egg Recipes
If you have little ones who love dying and then hunting eggs for Easter, then you wind up with more than a few boiled eggs rolling around your fridge. This year, I set out to find a few new things to...
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Warm and Crazy
I added a few twinkle lights to my impulively purchased, hastily planted tomato bushes to help them survive the weekend’s hard freezes. I covered them with a couple of light towels, too. I’m either...
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Cooking with Girl Scout Cookies
Believe it or not, there are more things to do with Girl Scout cookies other than hiding them in your desk and scarffing them all down when no one’s looking. Not that there’s anything wrong with that;...
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Bonus Recipe: Japanese Plum Jam
One of my coworkers at my day job brought in some Japanese plums from his backyard tree. They were so deliciously sweet, we both wanted to savor them for a while longer. So, with his help of providing...
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Homemade Junk Food
Here are some recipes we’ve tried to fill the shelves recently vacated by the sweet treats, salty snacks and cardboard breakfasts. If you have recipes for your favorite junk foods that you’d like to...
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Happy Derby Day!
Happy Kentucky Derby Day everyone! I hope you’re all wearing fancy hats and watching the run for the roses. It’s not that big of a deal in South Louisiana, but we still like to eat some of the Derby’s...
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Wedding Cookie Buffets
One of the newest trends at wedding receptions is a cookie buffet. Similar to the candy version, cookie buffets offer your guests the option to choose which treats they want to enjoy at your reception...
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Garding the Garden
I guess it’s about time for a garden update! I am pleased to announce my “hastily planted” tomato bushes survived all the cold snaps and are doing well. So far, I’ve had a few too many BLTs with their...
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Fresh Peach Recipes!
Second to strawberries, peaches are my favorite Louisiana-grown fruit. Fresh peaches are best enjoyed from late June to early August. So, lucky for me, peach season comes in on the coat tails of...
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Heirloom Tomatoes
Heirloom tomatoes are generally more delicate than high volume varieties, but are full of flavor and come in a bounty of colors and sizes. Every heirloom variety is genetically unique, because it has...
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Slow Cookin’
The days of homework, afterschool activities and harried evenings short on daylight are upon us. This is the time of year when I crank up the crock pot, or slow cooker, the most. It’s so nice to come...
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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Icing
It’s Pumpkin Season! Here’s one recipe I made this morning. (Fingers crossed the kids actually ate theirs on the way to school.) Hope your pumpkin season is off to a great start! Find more pumpkin...
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