What does the Emerald City, May, and Wicked have to do with a Salad? My Emerald City Salad aka Crunchy Romaine Toss Salad!       This past weekend we went to see our kids in Austin and my daughter, Alexis and I went to see Wicked.  She gave me the theatre tickets as a mother’s day [...]

If you like nuts, these are for you.  If you like peanut butter, these are for you and if you like chocolate and especially Nutella, you cannot walk away from these. I found this huge can of Planter’s mixed nuts in my pantry this morning. They were left over from our anniversary party a couple of [...]

It’s not a birthday cake but it’s what my husband is getting this year for his birthday. After 40 years of being married and cooking 98% of the meals we have ever eaten, I have yet to make a decent lemon meringue pie. In the first couple of months of marriage I think I probably [...]

Remember that  rhyme for picking who is going to be “it”. Everyone would put out two fist and whoever was doing the taping would start — One Potato, two potato, three potato  four, five potato, six potato, seven potato more. Each time “more” was said whoever got their fist tapped would have to put that hand behind [...]

A delicious grilled sandwich for a summer cookout. I love anything that can be grilled outside in the summer so our kitchen does not get as hot as blazes.  We grill out 12 months a year here in Texas. In fact, when we lived in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas and Kentucky, if we wanted BBQ we didn’t care [...]