Easy Zucchini or Eggplant Bake
Sometimes I have the hankering for a zucchini bake, but if your like me and your zucchini has already quit producing for the year, I always sub eggplant for zukes. I personally am not a huge fan of eggplant don’t get me wrong I sort of like it, but I can’t just eat it plain. […]
Monkey Bread
Monkey See, Monkey Do, Monkey Bread, Monkey You!!! Monkey bread, is something I thought mostly everyone has had a time or two, but when I posted a picture for it a few weeks ago, I had a couple requests for the recipe so I thought I would share my super easy, quick version of monkey […]
Watermelon Rind
My grandparents had horses when I was a little girl, and we use to keep my first horse Ginger in their pasture. Every summer we would have watermelon; lots and lots of watermelon, but besides eating it ourselves, my favorite part was to feed the leftover rind to the horses. They loved the rind and […]
Jalapeno Jelly
Last summer our veggie garden was spitting out peppers left and right. And I had to get super creative with using jalapeno’s don’t get me wrong I love a little spicy food, but I am not one to eat jalapenos raw or anything. So I searched and found this excellent recipe for Jalapeno Jelly and […]
Easy Cherry Pie
Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. You know the time you were so good at the 4th of July celebration that you hardly touched anything sweet. Then you leave feeling so hungry for something sweet you absolutely have to make something, like a refrigerator pie. (or you probably don’t but I will pretend everyone […]
4th of July Food Ideas
Here are some great 4th of July food ideas some mine and some from fellow bloggers. Hope you guys enjoy. Just click on the picture or link for the recipes. Now that would be some kind of 4th of July celebration if all these were served, it would be talked about for years to come!! […]
Outback Steakhouse Bushman Bread
Yes its the dead middle of a sweltering Texas summer and yes I did crank up my oven only to make this amazing bread. Amazing you ask? Oh yes amazing isn’t the word, the word is addicting, butter melting, bread wanting goodness. I think hubby DT has snuck into the fridge and eaten a small loaf […]
Super Easy Cobbler
Every summer I look forward to my dad picking dewberries, they grow wild near my dad’s rice farmers and we just love them. They are sweet with a slight bite of tartness, sweeter than a blackberry and slightly smaller. My dad absolutely loves dewberry cobblers and who am I to deny his request. Much less […]
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
You might be reading this and thinking has she gone crazy putting zucchini in chocolate cake, and your damn right I have, straight to the loony bin, over this cake!!!!! PSST- it has zucchini in it, ha ha ha (evil laugh) from our garden At least this was my sweet hubby DT reaction upon learning […]
Marinara Sauce
Due to the abundance of fresh tomatoes in our garden I decided to try my hand at making homemade Marinara sauce. I choose to use Giada De Laurentiis recipe for basic marinara with a few changes. I was pleasantly surprised at how incredibly easy fast and delicious this recipe was. I don’t think I will […]