Easy Butter Cake
This easy butter cake is the cake I use when I want to have a beautiful cake for a party. I used it for all the birthday parties I hosted in the restaurant, and now I make it for all the family special occasions. Recently, Raychel, my beautiful (not that I’m biased) daughter graduated from […]
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1916 Deviled Chicken
You may have figured out I love taking really old recipes and revising them. This was something I started doing when I had the restaurant and since then it has turned into a passion. Hell, I even revise my own recipes over and over! So, when my Aunt, my Mother-in-Law, and my Mom started giving […]
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Southern Comfort Food Night!
When the garden starts to produce and the sun starts to become a little warmer outside I start searching for some Southern Comfort food. I grew up on a farm, in a little bitty town called Fred, just a spit’n distance from Louisiana, where pick’n peas and shuck’n corn were family events with chairs all […]
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Homemade Mac & Cheese
Easter time every year is a time for everyone to get together and celebrate beginnings. This year (2020) was a little different for us. With COVID-19 hanging around we decided to not get together. We did have a family zoom meeting and I made all the traditional foods for my children here at my house. […]
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Apple Pie
The inspiration for my apple pie comes from a recipe written in 1916. It is full of fresh sliced apples, sugar, and cinnamon. I cheat on this recipe with the crust because when I get a craving for some apple pie, I don’t want to waste my time making a from-scratch crust, especially when I […]
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Chicken Creole
I love a good cajun meal. Being raised in South East Texas I was exposed to cajun food on a regular basis. I have an Aunt that lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana for years and she has started to pass down some of her amazing Cajun creations. This recipe was originally intended to make shrimp […]
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Sweet Barbecue Chicken
As food hacks go, this one is a good one. Sometimes I get so wrapped up in making something “from scratch” that I forget to take something already made and just make it better. Kinda like I do when I start with a boxed cake mix to make a great cake. This is a food […]
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Cashew Chicken Bowl
I recently reached the point of foraging for food in my kitchen! Like an episode of “Chopped”, I have gotten into finding things and trying to come up with something good to eat. This recipe is inspired by a close to expiration bottle of Newman’s Own Sesame Ginger Dressing and a son that asked for […]
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1916 Banana Nut Bread
I am so excited about a cookbook that my mother and father-in-law have passed on to me! It is called Fredericksburg Home Kitchen Cook Book and it was originally published in 1916. The last time it was revised and enlarged was in 1957. The book is full of what I am dubbing “Traditionally Tasty” recipes. […]
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Chocolate Coffee Muffins
What do you do when you are in the middle of a global pandemic and start craving something sweet? Normally, I would throw together some cookies or eat some ice cream, but with the current normal I really didn’t want to use up my supplies. So, I decided to forage and see what I could […]
