Easy Crust Pizza

Easy Crust Pizza Recipe

This Easy Crust Pizza is so much fun to make! I promise that if you were to help your kids make this pizza, you would also be making some great memories.  It comes together quickly and the toppings can be whatever you want.  I used browned hamburger and mushroom, but your imagination is the limit.  […]

Chocolate Chip Butter Cookie

Chocolate Chip Butter Cookie Recipe

This is not your traditional Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe.  This chocolate chip butter cookie recipe starts with a butter cookie base for a lighter more shortbread feeling with just the perfect touch of chocolate.  It makes the perfect company for a nice cup of coffee or tea.  They are also just the right size that […]

Sesame Chicken Recipe

Sesame Chicken Recipe

One of the things I want to get better at is cooking Chinese style food.  This recipe for Sesame Chicken is one of the first I have come up with, and I must say it is a keeper.  I started researching how to make it and, through trial and error, figured out what I liked […]

Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake

Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake Recipe

Sometimes I start wanting something different.  I love chocolate cake, just as much as the next person, but when the hankering hits me for a different kind of chocolate cake I become obsessed with figuring out what my stomach is telling my brain it wants. I pull out the legal pad and old cookbooks until […]

Easy Alfredo Sauce

Easy Alfredo Sauce Recipe

My daughter pointed out to me the other day that I had not posted the easiest recipe I make. Well, I decided that I need to rectify that as quickly as possible. This Easy Alfredo Sauce is something I made in The Acme all the time, and I also make it at home probably once […]

Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

Chicken and Sausage Gumbo Recipe

First attempt at some Chicken and Sausage Gumbo!  One of the things that I love about living in a small town is that your neighbors tend to care about you.  My in-laws have a nice lady who lives next door to them, always hanging bags of fresh from the garden veggies on their mailbox.  The […]

Chocolate Delight

Chocolate Delight Recipe

Light and airy, this Chocolate Delight was a popular recipe during the hot summer months at my restaurant.  Now that we are hitting 100 plus degrees here in Texas for weeks on end, I am reaching for this light and cool dessert yet again. This Chocolate Delight probably got its name from the layers of […]

Watergate Salad

Watergate Salad Recipe

Are you ready for a salad that will bring back memories of grandma?  Here is another of my favorite “dinner on the ground” selections.  This Watergate Salad is made with marshmallows and pineapple, always served cold, and when my mom wasn’t looking, took up half of my plate.  Grad a box of pistachio instant pudding […]

Easy Beef and Potato One-Pot Dish

Easy-Beef-and-Potato-One-Pot-Dish

School nights call for easy meals!  This Easy Beef and Potato One-Pot Dish has to be one of the quickest things you can make to satisfy your family on a packed weeknight.  I love the way it just uses one pot, so clean up is easy too.   I serve this with some Tostado chips, shredded […]

Easy Chicken and Shrimp Pasta

Chicken-and-Shrimp-Pasta

I just love it when I can come up with an easy recipe!  This Easy Chicken and Shrimp Pasta recipe is definitely one of the easiest I have made in a while!  It comes together within 30 minutes and has you going back for seconds.  Tender chicken and baby shrimp, over penne pasta, covered in […]