Chocolate Caramel Poke Cake
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 […]
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Easy Alfredo Sauce
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 […]
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Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
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 […]
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Chocolate Delight
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 […]
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Watergate Salad
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 […]
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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 […]
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Pineapple Upside Down Cake
This Pineapple Upside Down Cake is the stuff memories are made of. If I was to say “dinner on the ground,” what is the thing that comes to mind for you? For me, it is Mt. Olivet Baptist Church (where my Daddy led the singing) and hot muggy East Texas Sundays. We would all gather […]
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Crispy Chicken Tostadas
I can vividly remember the first time I ate avocado on these Crispy Chicken Tostadas! I was a young girl living in Fred, Texas and my mother let me go stay a week with my cousin Paula and her husband Rodney. They lived close to Galveston, Texas which surely meant a trip to the beach! […]
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Damn Good Chocolate Cake
Yes, I said it. This cake is a Damn Good Chocolate Cake. I made this one probably once a week in the restaurant because it was not only easy to make, but it sold so well. When you have a restaurant you have to serve dessert, right? Desserts on the menu meant that I was […]
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Soda Vs. Powder
Ever get a frantic phone call about soda vs. powder? My daughter just moved into her first house with her first kitchen and she is learning the “kitchen” ropes. She calls me the other day because she is baking some cookies (from scratch), had some baking powder, but the recipe called for baking soda! She […]
