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Ask Not What Your Pantry Can Do For You…

Ask Not What Your Pantry Can Do For You…

Reading Time: 9 minutesEven the most resourceful housewife cannot create miracles from a rice less pantry.                                     ~Chinese Proverb   Unfortunately, not my pantry 🙁 If cooking a meal was a …Read More….

Orange You Excited About This Cake?

Orange You Excited About This Cake?

Reading Time: 7 minutesCalifornia is a fine place to live – if you happen to be an Orange.                   ~ Fred Allen I don’t know what it is, but ever since we moved to North Carolina, I’ve had a much deeper …Read More….

.. Of Spices

.. Of Spices

Reading Time: 9 minutesOnce you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.                     …Read More….

The Sauce

The Sauce

Reading Time: 6 minutesI don’t think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we’re stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians.                                     …Read More….

I Can Cook & So Can You!

I Can Cook & So Can You!

Reading Time: 4 minutesCookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.                             ~Marcel Boulestin There are hundreds, if not thousands of secrets in the culinary world. …Read More….

Buckle Up.. It’s the Slaw

Buckle Up.. It’s the Slaw

Reading Time: 5 minutesWelcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray..                                                     ~Unknown Hello to the first day of Spring!! Aside from a few of those in the North, it’s been a rather mild Winter for most of us. But as of today it is officially …Read More….

Pie Hard: With a Vengeance

Pie Hard: With a Vengeance

Reading Time: 6 minutes                   Mmmm… Pie Pants…                                      ~Homer J . Simpson Nothing is homier than a freshly baked pie. Many believe that …Read More….

Pi r square… No, Pie r round!

Pi r square… No, Pie r round!

Reading Time: 6 minutesWhen you die, if you get a choice between going to regular heaven or pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if it’s not, mmmmmmmm, boy.                                …Read More….

So Easy to Whip Up, You Can’t Beat It

So Easy to Whip Up, You Can’t Beat It

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips. Everybody knows that.                                         ~Willy Wonka Let me guess… You buy whipped cream in …Read More….

Pancakes… It’s What’s for Breakfast

Pancakes… It’s What’s for Breakfast

Reading Time: 6 minutes  I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes. ~George Carlin Picture this: It’s Sunday morning and you want to make your family/that special someone/your dog or …Read More….