Recently my friend Charlene was traveling through Arkansas with girlfriends. I didn’t realize this, but the home of P. Allen Smith is located just 30 minutes outside of Little Rock. The Garden Home at Moss Mountain Farm sits on top of a ridge overlooking the Arkansas River Valley. Paul Allen Smith is a television … Read more
I am absolutely crazy about this dessert! It is so simple to make, I actually made it and baked it while I was preparing our dinner the other night. When my sous chef dish-washing mom and the Chief realized there was something in the oven they both got pretty excited. I haven’t been baking much lately … Read more
We eat ice cream all year around. For the Chief, my sous-chef dish-washing mom and I to say it is our Achilles’ heel may be an understatement. For this reason I don’t buy ice cream “just to have on hand.” If I did, we would all be as big and round as a tub of … Read more
When I was growing up my sous-chef dish-washing mom told me repeatedly that “blue” isn’t for food. Luscious red strawberries are fine, white angel food cake is beautiful, blue frosting on a child’s birthday cake – utter nonsense! That was long before Superman and his blue cape showed up on little boy’s cakes. Or how … Read more
Recently I received an email from Pinterest informing me that my Southern Living Best Banana Pudding recipe is one of the most viewed recipe making the rounds and being repinned globally!
I have a lot of new subscribers to My Daily Bread Body and Soul. What a blessing! That makes this a great time to take a few weeks and highlight some of my favorite recipes posted over the past 4 years. Bacon Wrapped Cream Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast has taken the lead with the latest … Read more
I began writing this blog four years ago today. I love looking back and thinking about this road paved with sugar and spice and scripture and blessings. At a recent luncheon with girlfriends my friend said “everything you bake looks so good and so perfect!” I thought for a moment and then had to grin … Read more
Yesterday I wrote about these lovely sugar cookie flowers. For those of you who have signed up to receive notice of a new blog post via email you may or may not have seen a picture of the cookies. But for some reason Feedburner sent out this picture of a momma and her baby! I … Read more
My sous chef dish-washing mom and I belong to a garden club. By the very nature of “garden” club one might think we are gardeners. That would be wrong. We like plants, we have both toyed with growing a flowering plant or two, but gardeners we are not. We do have this little garden close … Read more
When our granddaughter Abbey arrived for a visit last fall one of the first things she asked of her Grandpa Lee is, “Do you have any black walnuts?” Earlier this summer Abbey had been the recipient of fresh black walnuts from Grandpa Lee’s walnut trees. She told us that she used them in a recipe … Read more
I have a friend who was in the hospital the week before Easter. She and her husband always have the family gather at their house for holidays and she was telling me that this year she wasn’t going to be up to having a big Easter dinner. “I did ask my daughter to please try … Read more
Driving into town last week I read this sign in a local church yard. A half truth, a “little white lie”, a twist of truth … is still a whole lie. This has bounced around in my head all through the week, not to mention the many times I drove that road in to town … Read more
Today is Maundy Thursday. It is the Christian holy day, falling on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the Maundy and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles as described in the Canonical gospels. “And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we … Read more
Last week my sous chef dish-washing mom was tasked to bring dessert to our fellowship lunch for Community Bible Study held on Thursday. We share a lunch together once a month and this was the teacher’s month to bring the food. When I asked her what she planned to make she said, “the pudding dessert.” … Read more
Middle Tennessee has been hit with full-on WINTER all in one week. This week. Ice. Snow. Rain. Sleet. Thunder. More Ice. All this week. The glorious result for me is that we have been home all week. This may not sound great to you but for me, it is a blessing to have appointments cancelled. … Read more