Speaking of enjoyable, this Chocolate Meringue Pie is one of my favorite ways to blow a diet. It's so rich and creamy and the ingredients to make one is almost always in my house. It's pretty darn inexpensive, too. Sugar, flour, cocoa, eggs, milk, butter, vanilla and a pie crust and you've got yourself an impressive dessert that everyone will love. If you can get your hands on ...
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Aunt Linda’s Blackbottom Cupcakes
Aunt Linda's Blackbottom Cupcakes are a chocolate confection that dreams are made of. A chocolate outside with a cream cheese middle, Aunt Linda's Blackbottom Cupcakes are the prefect treat for holidays and everyday! So, back in the day. Waayyyy back in the day, my great grandmother, Mama Driver, held all of the family holiday gatherings at her house. It was this tiny little ...
Baked Crab Mac-n-Cheese
This baked crab mac-n-cheese is complete and total decadence. Perfect for holidays and date nights, this ooey, gooey, crabby goodness will make your stomach smile. Here is what I have decided. People who have said that seafood and cheese don't go together are idiots. I have proven them wrong in the past with the Tuna Chowder and now with this fan-freaking-tastic crab ...
Phyllo Wrapped Pork with Apple-Thyme Chutney
Valentine's Day is just around the corner and right now we are up to our eyeballs in Valentine's cards for 14 preschoolers. We have been cutting, gluing, sticking stickers, and writing our names for a couple of days now. The end result is eventually going to be 24 handmade butterfly Valentine's. Aren't they cute?! (I found the print out for them here if you are interested ...
Salmon on a Boxty
Welcome to another Tuna Tuesday! Where the star of the show is meat in a can! Please add your Tuna Tuesday recipe too! Well, it looks like 2010 is drawing to a close and many people out there are going to all kinds of parties and celebrations to kick off the new year. Not me, but other "many people" are. But if I was going to a party or, better yet, if I was throwing a party, ...
Baked Potato Soup and Hot Ham and Swiss Sandwiches
Baked Potato Soup and Hot Ham and Swiss Sandwiches are excellent on cold nights, casual get-togethers, sick days or football parties. They just go together so well! You can substitute leftover baked potatoes or cook some up in the microwave instead of the oven if you want to make this dish a little faster. Christmas has finally come and gone. The kids are slowly coming ...
Southern Fudge Pie
As my kids have reminded me time and time again, Christmas is nearly here. It's so close they can smell it. The presents, the lights, the Chocolate! Nothing is more looked forward to in our house than chocolate. We all crave it on pretty much a daily basis. Which means that we don't always have a whole lot of chocolate laying around. We have usually eaten it all. Not ...
Chocolate Cracker Cookies
Because I have two 4 year olds, I am always on the look out for recipes that they would be able to help me with easily. Sometimes it's easier said and done, but I ran across this one in a Taste of Home Magazine and added an extra ingredient so all three of us had a job to do. I wasn't sure how the crackers would do with the chocolate, but they are surprisingly very good. It ...
Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing
Thanksgiving isn't Thanksgiving without Traditional Southern Cornbread Dressing. It just isn't. It's probably the dish that I look forward to the most. It's the one I spend the most time making sure is absolutely perfect, and it's the cheapest thing on the table. Now I know that some of you people out there call it "stuffing" and that you actually put it inside the bird. ...
Freezer Bread Rolls
Okay, so I have been making just about every loaf of bread my family eats for many months now. Oh sure, on occasion I will buy a loaf here and there but mostly, I am the bread maker. Why would I subject myself to this crazy primitive process of making loaf after loaf of bread? I have 2 very good reasons: 1 - It's cheaper. A loaf costs me less than $.25 2 - It tastes so much ...
Chicken Stock and Chicken Noodle Soup
Chicken stock is one of those basic kitchen practices that everyone should know. It's probably THE kitchen practice to know. It is liquid gold. It's a thing of beauty. It's full of flavor and it's delicious. It's also dang near free if you make it yourself. With Thanksgiving coming up, you are going to need a lot of chicken stock. I bet the average American spends $10 - $15 ...
Roasted Acorn Squash
Halloween was awesome. The best year yet. I haven't had that much fun on Halloween since I was a teenager rolling ( that's Southern for TPing) the sheriff's backyard. The kids were so stinking cute and collected a lot of candy which I will probably eat most of. Holiday weight here I come!! Of course, after Halloween comes November. November is a crazy month for us. Why so ...
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 ...
A little piece of Americana – Blackberry Cobbler
Our nation's Independence Day is coming up this weekend and Americans around the country will be headed to backyard barbeque's, pool parties, and fireworks displays. It's a time for all of us to remember the past and the present and to look forward to the future of our nation. It's a time for us to swell with pride at the great things this country has to offer. Because even ...
Homemade Valentine Candies
Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Every gas station and drug store is full of plastic roses and boxes of cheap candy.Children every where are filling out Hello Kitty Valentine Cards to give to everyone in their home room class. Some love sick little boy is buying his girlfriend of 3 whole months a cheesy gold plated bracelet that says "Be Mine" on it. Husbands ...