Announcing the winner for the most submitted recipe in my mother’s cookbook –  A+ in Cooking! Ta – da da da-a-a – da da-a-a! And the winner is…. Drum roll! Chocolate Sheet Cake — applause, applause, applause, whoop and more applause. No fewer than seventeen families submitted this recipe as their family favorite.  When planning […]

The picture in the Dallas Morning News caught my attention. In the Wednesday food section, Alicia Ross shares recipes.  Her column is called Kitchen Scoop – what a cute name.  The pictured muffins were filled with summer fruits – strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries.  As I read the recipe, my mouth was watering, and I knew […]

Cinco de Mayo has come and gone, but the Living Stones are prepared to celebrate a day late on our monthly excursion to the Well.  The Living Stones travel to Oak Cliff once a month to share a meal with our friends at the Well.  We have eagerly been preparing.  Excellent cook Nancy cooked twelve […]

Million Dollar Pound Cake is another vintage recipe from the 1970’s.  It is still a favorite.  The name – Million Dollar Pound Cake – pretty well sums it up.  It is yummy and delicious.  Of course, now days I guess the name should be Billion Dollar Pound Cake.  Hot Rod’s assessment, “Soft , moist, dense, […]

First order of business.  Augh-h-h-h!  The computer gremlins are here again.  My post from yesterday, did not go to the email subscribers.  In that post, The Mrs. (my dear friend) shared her North Dallas home with us.  It is beautiful, and if you want to see this home tour, click on this link.  The Mrs. […]

You might need this for your Thanksgiving and Christmas meals, so I had better post it now – ASAP. Recently I came across the term “vintage recipe”.  Love that term – “vintage recipe”.  I think most of my recipes are “vintage”, and worthy of being collected – maybe that is stretching it a bit, but […]

Recently I saw the recipe for Cranberry-Hazelnut Coffeecake on Pinterest.  The original recipe is from MyRecipes.com.  The coffeecake looked so pretty, and I do love cranberries, so I pinned it to my board “Want to Try”.  The fact that the recipe called for fresh cranberries, and they were not sweetened was appealing.  I love a […]

Long, long ago on a street not too far away, a dear friend made Good Banana Pudding (That is the official name of this recipe in her family cookbook).  She served said Good Banana Pudding to Ever-Lovin’, and the rest is history.  Ever-Lovin’ loves, loves, loves banana pudding, and this recipe sat a new standard. […]