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Erika

Southern Comfort Food

One thing I learned last spring on our travels to Florida, is that Southerners REALLY know their breakfast food. Particularily in Alabama. We loved Alabama. In a few years we are planning...

Ding Ding Ding!!!

We have a winner. 🙂 Can you tell I am smiling?After just 6 attempts, I have found my chocolate cake. Oh, is this one good. I admit that I was getting a...

Success and an Almost success!

Let’s start with the almost success, pictured above. Today in my quest to find Rachel’s chocolate wedding cake I tried two more recipes. The one on top is actually Baker’s One Bowl...

Pantry Challenge- Red Curry Paste

So I’ve had a jar of Patek’s mild curry paste lurking in my fridge for a long time. I bought it several months ago to make a coconut and shrimp soup. The...

Another good one.

Tonight I returned to The New York Times Chicken Cookbook. I am attempting to find new ways to cook chicken for easier weeknight meals. So far I am succeeding. Usually if I...

The Great Cake Hunt

So for those who don’t know, Rachel and Cody’s wedding is coming up quickly, on February 18th. I have been honored by being asked to make the wedding cake. At least I...

The Underrated Chicken Leg

I changed my mind three times today before I decided to go ahead and make this chicken. I went back and forth as to whether or not it would be well received...

I don’t have much new to post tonight. Some friends of ours stopped in today and thrust a pair of baby back ribs into my hands, saying they’d be back in two...

Stew rediscovered

I love stew. It is another one of those comfort food things. My only problem is that I don’t make a fine stew. Except for my chicken stew, but since that is...

A Simple Supper

Tonight’s dinner was very simple, but quite good. Hoisin and Honey Glazed Pork Chops was a super simple meal. The original source is Gourmet magazine, but the inspiration came from my Sister-In-Law...

My Pride and Joy

My Abigail My Zander This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Ain’t He Sweet

Andy was very sweet to me for Christmas. As you can see. There is a picture on my blog!!!!! Yeppers. My sweetie got me my digital camera. I can’t wait to learn...