Recipes & Stories

I found this recipe in a new cookbook I bought called “Holy Sweet”, by Peabody Johanson. She has a wonderful blog, sweetrecipeas.com, which she calls, ‘evil recipes from a nice person’! The book has some outrageous baked goods that are over the top, many using some childhood treats such as Fruity Pebbles Crumb Cake and […]

Here’s my favorite Hummus recipe–make sure and make it with the Homemade Pita Bread since the two go together like peanut butter and jelly.  Sure, there are a plenty of store bought hummuses out there, but this is also better than store bought, cheaper and super easy to whiz up. If you don’t have tahini […]

Thoughts on Pound Cake… Pound cake, for me, is one of the best classic examples of old school Southern baking.  Although its earliest written history goes back to European roots, this cake has become classically American. Originally, just as the name suggests, pound cake recipes were simply a combination of a pound each of  four […]

The broken wrist cake. Some things don’t turn out as you planned.   Example, this Strawberry Smash Mason Jar Cake.  Let’s go back to Valentine’s week awhile back.  Remember my fellow Texans?  Snowmageddon, Ice-Capades, Winter Apocalypse?  As a well intentioned friend, I offered to make and deliver Valentine’s dinner for a few of my favorite […]