Charleston was a delight and the food was absolutely wonderful and shrimp and grits is one of my favorites. Shut my mouth! I declare! Butter my biscuit! I feel like I should be saying all these things about these Shrimp and Cheese Grits. My daughter and I just returned from Charleston. This was our 4th  [...]

Sour Cherries and Goat Cheese! Now that sounds like an unusual combination. This morning I was straightening and organizing my pantry and ran across a can of sour cherries that I bought after returning from a trip to Chicago to visit our son and daughter-in-law. While visiting them this summer, we had dinner one night [...]

I’ve been in search of a great macaroon for years.  Recently I tasted the best I have ever had at Katz deli here in Texas.  It was big, moist and a heavenly cloud of coconut.   Here is my attempt to do something with this pile of beautiful unsweetened coconut. The unsweetened coconut is beautiful [...]

Hot tamales, hot tamales, get them while they’re hot! I have so  many memories from growing up in a small town in Missouri. My hometown was about 7,000 people and not a Mexican restaurant in sight (not for at least 30 years). We used to go to town shopping and I remember a little man [...]