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What’s cooking? Besides me. In this heat.

Another day, I'm cooking

So our summer is off to a good start. We've had a lot of doing nothing which is not a complaint. At some point I'm hoping I'll get bored enough to start cleaning out closets and such, but I'm not there yet. Right now I'm choosing to spend my down time watching Netflix and reading books. My people spent a few days fishing in Louisiana and they got back last night. I was so glad to see them Read More

I do know the muffin man or woman. Or whatever.

I'm cooking

Before I write anything else I have to tell y'all that today is Bops's birthday. Otherwise known as my daddy. Not everyone is fortunate enough to grow up with a dad who creates a lasting example of all that is good and right in a person, but I did. He is one of the best men I have ever known and I am so honored that he's my dad. Of all the gifts God has given me, he's toward the very top of Read More

Popeye would have been a big fan

I'm cooking

I still haven't bought a Ninja blender. I just wanted y'all to know. But I am planning to buy one. At some point in the future. Maybe around the same time I get slipcovers made for the couch and paint my walls gray. Even with my blender technical difficulties though, I have managed to persevere and make smoothies almost every single morning. And since several of you asked what I put in Read More

Jambalaya and crawfish pie and file’ gumbo

I'm cooking

About a week ago, my friend Meredith posted a message on my Facebook wall and said she'd made my recipe for jambalaya that day as part of a trial run for a Mardi Gras party she was hosting later that week. And I realized I'd forgotten all about jambalaya. But I had a good reason. About eleven years ago, jambalaya was one of my cold weather staples. A little spicy Cajun comfort food to help Read More

Poultry is my kryptonite

Another day, I'm cooking

I made an extensive grocery store list on Monday morning because I'd spent most of last week just trying to piecemeal some pantry items together and call it dinner. But the jig was finally up on Monday morning because P was out of Coffeemate and, while we can live on leftover Easter ham for a scandalous amount of time, we aren't complete barbarians who drink our coffee black. Of course I drink Read More

Soup is better than geometry

Another day, I'm cooking

Last night we went and picked out our Christmas tree. I don't mean to exaggerate but it may be the best tree in the history of all our Christmas trees. To be honest, I'm a little intimidated to decorate it because I feel that my decorating abilities may be less than a tree of this magnitude deserves. I'd show you a picture of it in all its undecorated glory, but that would involve getting up Read More

Makes your eyes light up and your tummy say howdy

Doodle, I'm cooking

On Friday, the first grade at Caroline's school had their very own Thanksgiving Feast. This is not to be confused with the feast they had in the cafeteria earlier in the week that involved very tough turkey and nary any sort of cutting utensil to be found. The feast on Friday was just for the first graders and each class was asked to contribute various things. I'm the homeroom mom (I know. I Read More

A giveaway and the best dip ever

Business, I'm cooking

Before I write anything else, I need to let you know that there is a brand new giveaway on my Giveaway page. And it's good. It's so, so good and just in time for the Christmas season. On a totally different note, I'd totally planned to wait and post the fabulous dip recipe after I actually made it so I could include an incredibly below average photographed tutorial to go along with it. There Read More

Represent with some tortilla soup

I'm cooking

On Monday it was cold and rainy here. The kind of cold and rainy that inspired P and I to go eat breakfast at our favorite little breakfast place after he dropped Caroline off at school. Of course it also may have had something to do with the fact that he opened up the refrigerator and discovered we were out of eggs. I'd used our last egg the night before when I offered to make ham and eggs for Read More