Rich, Moist Coconut Cake

Our family is not terribly fond of coconut, preferring rather to eat chocolate – chocolate anything. However, my in-laws love coconut, so for my mother-in-law’s birthday yesterday I made this dessert. It was my very first attempt at making a coconut cake and it turned out to be delicious! It’s a very rich, moist cake [...]

Authentic Guacamole

Authentic guacamole…? Is there such a thing? Try doing a Google search and you’ll find that there are many different ways to make guacamole. There is not one recipe that is “authentic“. The key to great guacamole is do you like it and are there any leftovers? If you like it and there is little [...]

Strawberry Lemonade

I recently ate out with a friend at a nice restaurant and enjoyed a nice tall glass of strawberry lemonade…that is until I got the bill! A glass of strawberry lemonade cost $4.oo a glass! For some reason it had never occurred to me to make my own at home…until now. And I’m not talking [...]

Dixie Land Delight – Hummingbird Cake

While it seems a version of this cake first originated in Jamaica, it certainly has been adopted and claimed in recent years by us Southerners. The first known printed record of this cake by the title Hummingbird Cake was submitted by L.H. Wiggins of N.C. and later printed in a 1978 Southern Living magazine and [...]

13 Foods to Buy Organic

There are several opinions out there in cyberspace on what foods to eat, what foods not to eat, when to buy organic and when not to buy organic. But most will agree that there are a group of fresh foods that we should always try to buy organic. I’ll give you the list here. Now [...]

Quit Wasting Food

Blast from the Past: This post has gotten a lot of hits since I posted it almost 2 years ago, so I thought it would be a good reminder and decided to re-post it! _________________________________ How’s that for a catchy title!? LoL Most of us HomeMakers try to be frugal, to make the most of [...]

Bacon Cheeseburger Soup

There are so many versions of Cheeseburger Soup out there, but with each one I’ve tried or reviewed there’s just a little something I’m not pleased with. I finally decided to come up with my own version taking ingredients from two different recipes. One is Bacon Cheeseburger Soup from Paula Deen and the other is [...]

Homemade Chocolate Syrup

I have tried several recipes for homemade chocolate syrup. Some I have been pleased with but none of them have been recipes I wanted to stick with. So off I would search for another recipe. It seems I have found a homemade chocolate syrup recipe to make anyone slap their grandma – well, not really, [...]

The Supper Challenge: Day 2

Supper tonight was a quick throw together meal which is good because I had several errands to run and a piano lesson late in the afternoon. I found the recipe for Mordecai’s Chicken in a church cookbook Come and Dine put out by Antioch Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN. A year ago I was flipping [...]

The Lunch Challenge: Day 5

Today was an enjoyable day running errands with the children. After errands we went through the drive through at McDonalds and took our lunch to a local park. The weather was wonderful and made me wish we could do that every day! But because I had pizza on the menu for lunch yesterday and I [...]

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