Can be prepared ahead of time and just waiting for your guests. Whatever you are planning for your Memorial Day celebration, these vegetables are easy to make and will be a hit at your party. I loved grilled vegetables mainly because I don’t have to cook them. Usually, anything grilled falls on my husband. For [...]

Poor man’s dish but fit for a King! In honor of my husbands family tree I decided to make this potato dish this week for St. Patrick’s Day to go along with some corn beef. Back before the Irish Potato famine the average Irishman ate 5.5 lbs. of potatoes each day. Potatoes were a staple [...]

The last of my summer corn and it tasted fresh out of the field. After making my Corn and Crab Fritters back in the summer I decided to use some of my corn that I had frozen and add some crabmeat to a Corn Maque Choux recipe I have been wanting to try for a [...]

Thanksgiving day roasted vegetables. Can’t you just smell fall in the air, looking at these roasted vegetables. This is the time of the year in Texas that I start feeling like it is fall. Some of the leaves are falling, a few trees may be changing colors, and the temperatures have gotten out of the [...]

Braggadocios over this rice dish! In case you don’t know where Braggy or Braggadocio is, well it’s in Southeast Missouri, the “Bootheel” of the State. And it is where my twin sister lives and where her husband grew up farming cotton, wheat, soybeans, rice, and running a cotton gin until a tornado blew the gin [...]