My friend Peggy shared a post on her wall with a picture and recipe for Loaded Cauliflower. It caught my attention because I just happened to have a head of cauliflower in my refrigerator. You know what I mean? Any other day I might have looked past it, but not that day because I needed … Read more
Spring strawberries are in season in middle Tennessee. Friday my sous-chef dish-washing mom and I made a trip to a local farm to fill up on fresh, ruby-red, stunningly juicy, beautiful strawberries. Mom cleaned the strawberries as I made dinner Friday. We talked about our “plan of attack” on Saturday morning to turn these berries … Read more
In 2004 the Chief and I bought this lovely home to run as a bed and breakfast. In the 3 years that followed we hosted over 1,000 men, women (and a few children!) at our breakfast table. In this 174-year-old home antebellum home, Mother’s Day was an extra-special day because we treated the mothers staying … Read more
Pretty much every Thursday I make breakfast food for dinner. It is that time of the week where I am out of ideas, just plain tired, or I am hungry for a breakfast that doesn’t begin and end with oatmeal. This past week I knew I had eggs, cheese, a little bit of leftover bacon, … Read more
With Cinco de Mayo just around the corner, last week the Brown Eyed Baker (a favorite blogger of mine) featured a few recipes with a Mexican flavor. Her Taco Dip caught my eye because it is so colorful and just looked “fun!” I had just made our favorite outstanding meatloaf for dinner and had set … 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