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New South Grilling: Fresh and Exciting Recipes From the Third Coast
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The Pita Pit!
Happy Monday all! This weekend was awesome, but, I am not sure we were home other than to sleep We discovered quite possibly my favorite new place (and The Husband likes it too!), celebrated my mom’s birthday and scor (read full article)
Alabama Cookies
I'm seldom in the mood to make cookies, but last night I couldn't sleep. So it was the perfect time to make cookies. I jotted down this recipe a long time ago from one of my mom's old cookbooks. They seemed to have just a (read full article)
Healthy Homemade Fruit Thin Bars (Think Fig Newtons...)
I am always on the look out for healthy homemade snacks and luckily I have lots of friends who are willing to share their recipes. My friend, Jane & I swap cookbooks, which is a really nice way to gain some new recipes, complete with feedback fro (read full article)
Versatile Blogger Award!
Michelle @ Health Food Lover nominated me for this award. Thank you so much! So, to accept this award: I have to do 3 things. One: thank the person who gave me this award. Michelle, Thanks so much! Check her out at Health Food Lover. Two: share 7 t (read full article)
Matrimonial Cake
The weather has, for the most part, settled in to one beautiful day after the other. I don't really feel like spending alot of time indoors or being on the computer for long lengths of time other than to be blogging and feeding my addiction to Farmv (read full article)
Ham and Pineapple Quesadillas, and Organizing Your Dinner!
Okay, so I admit it, I am a Type A, compulsive, inflexibly organized person. It's the only way I can keep the various parts of my life all (mostly!) heading in the right direction, and by parts I mean the care and feeding of one Southern husband, on (read full article)
Italian Salads – Theme for June Recipes
As you may or may not know, each week I release a new Italian recipe. The recipe must meet my criteria of being a simple one, because I think simple cooking produces just as good results as complex cooking. Plus – I can’t do anything be (read full article)
BBQ Pitmasters Adds the Food Dude
The first official news regarding season two of TLC's BBQ Pitmasters has been released and in addition to bringing in a new host, the show will change formats completely in what can only be described as a hybrid between the old OLN and Versus series. (read full article)
Dairy Book of Home Cookery
Over the years we have had so many requests for the original cookbook, the Dairy Book of Home Cookery, I am amazed. Its popularity is unwavering and its fans passionate. One of our consumers said: ‘A treasure. A friend of mine’s mum had an old (read full article)
I'm Glad I Have Access To So Many Cooking Recipes
I have a lot of cookbooks at home. I also have web access and there are some great cooks in my family to hand down tips and advice. This means that I have access to thousands of different cooking recipes. Having access to all these cooking recipes ma (read full article)
He'd Been Known to Bake Bread: Grandpa Joe (Honey Oat Sandwich Bread)
The last few days have been bittersweet, as a very important member of our family passed away on the 26th. My father-in-law, known to us lovingly as Grandpa Joe, left us quietly on Monday morning. A smart, interesting, funny guy who loved a good lau (read full article)
We have queen cells!!!!
Junior went out and checked his nuc today. They have drawn out two queen cells and filled them with royal jelly. This means the first that hatches kills the other. (I wish we could save the other but we don't have a colony for her right now) It only (read full article)
Steamed Pudding: Daring Bakers April Challenge
When I casually mentioned that the April Daring Bakers' challenge was steamed suet pudding, my mom got that nostalgic look on her face and said how much she loved steamed puddings. When her mom (my grandmother) ran the restaurant (out of their (read full article)
Must-Have Summer Cookbooks
If you aren't aware by now that tomatoes are about my absolute favorite food on the planet (and probably off the planet, too) then you don't read this blog often enough. Let's just say, a day without tomatoes is a day without air. I have two cookbook (read full article)
Epic Waffle Fail
If you're thinking this is a picture of an epic waffle fail, you'd be right. I was betrayed by a new recipe last night.While flipping through an old cookbook, Burt Wolf's "Eating Well", I came across a recipe for some oatmeal waffles. The batter se (read full article)
Torta Gianduja - Chocolate and Roasted Hazelnut Cake
I've subscribed to both Gourmet Traveller and Delicious magazines for almost ten years now, but of late I've been increasingly frustrated with their repetitive content and the amount of advertising that keeps creeping into each new publication. So to (read full article)
Cooking disasters: Corned Beef Casserole
I nearly began this post with the picture of the Corned Beef Casserole I cooked on Tuesday night, but decided it might put people off from reading any further.Recently I bought two old cookbooks from a second hand bookshop. One of them was an America (read full article)
Fantastic Friday: We love OLIVES!
This Friday we decided to have an olive-flavored evening. So mix up the batch of Perfect Vodka Martinis that you've been craving! Three olives on a toothpick help flavor that fresh strong martini sip with a little salty wonder!To complement the drink (read full article)
A Recommendation and Sweet Pea Soup
I collect cookbooks. All types of cookbooks; I especially like old, heritage books that feature REAL food. You know, the stuff your grandmother made. TBHITW is going to sigh and say, "another cookbook?" when this one reaches my mailbox, but I just ca (read full article)



