No-Bake Oreo Chocolate Mousse Pie

Oreo Cookie Chocolate Mousse Pie Recipe

Sometimes you can come up with something that you know you are going to make over and over again.  Tonight, I created this basic dessert which I am calling a no-bake Oreo Chocolate Mousse, and I absolutely loved it.  As a matter of fact, this No-Bake Oreo Chocolate Mousse Pie is now in my top […]

Easy Butter Cake

Butter Cake Recipe

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 […]

1916 Deviled Chicken

Deviled Chicken Recipe

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 […]

Southern Comfort Food Night!

Squash and Okra Recipe

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 […]

Sweet Barbecue Chicken

Sweet Barbecue Chicken Recipe

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 […]

Cashew Chicken Bowl

Cashew Chicken Bowl Recipe

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 […]

Red Beans and Hot Water Bread

Red Beans and Rice Recipe

Tonight I wanted to make something vegetarian.  I have a friend on Instagram that is in the middle of celebrating Chaitra Navratri and I am posting this with respect for her celebration.  I started thinking…. vegetarian does not always mean vegetables. So, I made some awesome red beans, rice, and some old fashioned hot water […]

Breakfast Muffin Cake

Chocolate Chip Banana Breakfast Muffin Cake

The weekend is a time for baking! My daughter, Raychel, tries to come home once a month from college, and when she does, it is all about making foods she can easily take back with her to store in her tiny dorm room freezer for later meals. This weekend she requested that I make a […]