I was sixteen when I made my first sour cream chicken enchiladas. I found it in an old recipe book of my mom’s and made them for my boyfriend. I could not find all the ingredients at the only grocery store in my small Texas town so, I left those […]
Entrees
Easy Pizza Four Ways
Last night my kids wanted something I use to make them way back when. When I was so busy with a restaurant and a photography studio that I didn’t have the time to make complicated meals for the family. I wasn’t going to share this one, but my daughter reminded […]
Cajun Parmesan Tilapia
You can’t always get what you want in a small town. I love living in Llano, Texas with its river running through the middle and its beautiful courthouse square but you have to make a road trip to get fresh tilapia. Fresh beef – not an issue, but fresh tilapia, […]
Marvelous Meatloaf
This recipe for meatloaf was one I came up with for Sunday meals at the restaurant. My mom gave me a recipe years ago that was similar and used the same basic sweet sauce. But as you will discover as you follow me I am notorious for modifying everything. So […]
Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings
When it starts getting cooler here in Texas my kids start asking for Chicken and Dumplings. Along time ago my mother-in-law gave me her recipe for dumplings and I botched it for years! I have finally figured out the right proportions and now my dumplings are consistently good every single […]
Easy Quiche
One of the things we served every day at the restaurant was the quiche. The recipe is so simple and fun to make that I still make it at home. We also used this recipe at a large family reunion. We were all staying at a house on the coast […]