Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Berry upside down cake is a great summer dessert using fresh berries! Fresh blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries are baked into sweet cornmeal cake. Pineapple upside down cake may be the most popular, but this mixed berry upside down cornmeal cake is the […]
Category: Recipes
Chicken Chorizo Paella
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Paella is a Spanish rice dish, typically cooked in a very large skillet. Different recipe versions include the use of seafood, chicken, or sausage, and paella always includes saffron, which gives the rice a gorgeous yellow color. This paella recipe […]
Dark Chocolate Homemade Ice Cream Recipe
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! This dark chocolate homemade ice cream is going to knock your socks off. It does not matter at all if you eat it in the heat of summer or the bitter cold of winter. It is a delicious and rich […]
Sweet Memories of Childhood – Strawberry Granita
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Sweet memories of childhood include summer fun and frozen desserts from the ice cream man! Originally published in the Greenwood Daily Journal: Spice of Life column on June 11, 2011 One of my first sweet memories of summer growing up […]
Garlic Red Pasta Sauce
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Garlic red pasta sauce is a basic pasta sauce recipe, jazzed up with lots of fresh garlic and herbs. It’s quick and easy to make – the perfect weeknight dinner recipe. The Husband and I are going to the Italian Street Festival in […]
Zucchini Pancakes
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Zucchini pancakes are made with fresh garden zucchini. This savory pancakes recipe makes the perfect side dish, meatless main dish, or brunch entree. Every year it seems like I accumulate a LOT of zucchini and yellow squash. Really, I kind of […]
Fresh Berry Cobbler
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Fresh berry cobbler is one of my favorite summer desserts. This easy berry cobbler recipe uses fresh blackberries and raspberries. I think I mentioned last week that Kroger was having an incredible sale this week on raspberries and blackberries. Oh my, […]
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cream Pie
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Peanut butter chocolate cream pie has the perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter. This homemade pie recipe creates a custard pie that tastes like a creamy, cold Reese’s peanut butter cup. Peanut butter lovers go crazy for this pie! My oldest son […]
Getting Healthy for a Fresh Start to Summer
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! To make real changes in getting healthy, you have to understand the moment that it all became clear to you that you were headed down an unhealthy path. Sometimes it takes 1 embarrassing event to wake you up and send […]
Fresh Strawberry Granita {3 Ingredient Dessert Recipe}
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Fresh strawberry granita is a frozen dessert made with just 3 ingredients; fresh strawberries, sugar, and lemon juice. It’s one of my favorite summer frozen dessert recipes, and healthier, because you can control the amount of sugar in it! One of the […]
Orzo with Fresh Vegetables, Lemon and Orzo
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! Orzo with fresh vegetables may be the easiest side dish to make, and it’s the perfect “Mom, I’m hungry!” snack between meals. It generally takes me a week or so after school is out to re-acclimate myself to my old life of being […]
The Way to a Man Heart…
Welcome! Are you a subscriber? Click here to receive my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! The Way to a Man’s Heart is Through His Stomach is a statement that is 100% true. Whoever first coined this phrase must not have cooked very often. I think my husband likes almost everything that I make, he’s not really […]