Want a healthier pasta recipe?   Again, I find myself sitting around trying to dream up a new recipe.  While in Austin last weekend for our grandson’s birthday I was 2 days into the South Beach diet.  It’s easy for me to get started on any new diet because I tend to obsess over what [...]

Oh how I love mashed potatoes. Very good side dish for my roasted chicken.   I’m really trying to be good with this new year just beginning. I’ve been going to the gym 3 times a week and have drug out my Zumba tapes that I paid a fortune for and clumsily trying to do the [...]

Thank your Lee Brothers for this recipe.   We lived in Ft. Madison, Iowa for 6 years and surrounded by corn fields. Kids (not mine, they were too young) would get summer jobs detasseling corn, and we would enjoy corn festivals in nearby towns at harvest time where you could eat yourself sick with fresh [...]

Looking for a new carrot dish? Here it is.   Apricots and carrots compliment each other and look so pretty together.   Rainnnn, we finally got it yesterday and it lasted all day long.  I was stranded at the mall for an extra hour and while there discovered that to get the new iPhone I [...]

The Good, The Bad and The Delicious!   I have to say The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was one of my husband’s favorite movies. He loves Clint Eastwood and actually wanted to name our first son, Clint. I vetoed that right away because I imaged seeing a baby walking around in cowboy boots, [...]