Baked Ziti

I LOVE Christmas!  I do!  I really do!  But I’m SOOOOOOOOOO tired of eating “Christmas food!”  It’s wonderful when it’s Christmas.  It’s even wonderful the day or two afterwards.  But I’m ready for some everyday food!
While fiddling around on Facebook a day or so after Christmas, someone mentioned spaghetti.  And I LOVE me some spaghetti.  [...]

Monte Cristo Strata

Christmas is literally just hours away now!  It’s wicked cold here in TN.  We woke up to a nippy 11° this morning with a wind chill of -2°.  That’s just insane for us here in the South!  But as the old saying goes, if you don’t like the weather here, wait a minute…….we’re supposed to [...]

Sausage Hashbrown Casserole

So Christmas is nearly here!  Just a few days to go now!  Today, I’d like to share a Christmas tradition with you…….my family and I get up before the crack of dawn on Christmas morning to open gifts.  When I say before the crack of dawn, I mean before the very butt-crack of dawn!  It’s [...]

Ankle Biter Snack Mix

You know what?  Ankle Biters can cook too!  Well, I guess I use the word “cook” loosely.  Because today’s fare didn’t really involve any cooking on their part.  But the point is, you don’t have to be a grown up to make something delicious! 
For several years now, I’ve been getting each of the Ankle Biters a [...]

Christmas Angels

Howdy friends and neighbors!  My apologies for leaving you high and dry for days on end.  This past week has been the culmination of a HUGE project for me at work.  Once a year (actually twice for us this year because we had one in January too!) we have people come in from all across [...]

Chocolate Peppermint Sandwich Cookies

Let’s do some more Christmas baking!  I’ve been busy this weekend preparing for a HUGE event at work this week.  I’ve baked and baked and baked for this thing! 
I tried out something sorta new as an experiment.  I took an old cookie recipe and altered it and then kicked it up a notch by making [...]

Chinese Chewies

Chinese Chewies?  A Christmas goodie, you ask?  OH YEAH, BABY!  This is a Granny recipe.  My Granny was unbelievably amazing!  Her mother died a few days after giving birth to her.  Her father died not too long thereafter.  And my Granny was raised in an orphanage in Nashville where Tenneessee State University stands now.  She [...]

Cranberry Almond Biscotti

Deep in the recesses of your mind, do you have a very special person that comes to mind when you think of certain things?  I do!  I was a very little girl when I first learned about biscotti.  When I was a little girl, nobody around here sold biscotti.  Heck, I imagine that most didn’t [...]

Amazing Pumpkin Cookies

***singing***  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas……..
OK, well maybe not quite yet here in Dixie.  But we DID have a flake or two of snow this morning!  I don’t think I ever remember seeing any snow this early ’round these parts.  And it WAS just a flurry or two.  But still…..it was snow.  [...]