Growing up in Texas means a familiarity with a delicious puffy, light, fried dough dessert by the name of Sopapilla; growing up in Texas also means frequent trips to Louisiana, which means an abiding love for those rich fried dough desserts known as beignets. What these two have in common is fried dough (duh), powdered…
My mom is an amazing woman. She is strong, beautiful, funny, passionate, loving, smart and the original Southern Belle. She is a SURVIVOR! Happy Birthday Momma. My Mom on her First Birthday My mom making it to her first birthday was a miracle. This picture, is a miracle. My mom was born in mumblefiftymumblesomethingmumble. She…
Easy and Delicious OOEY GOOEY Chocolate Cobbler Well… Chocolate Cobbler it is, y’all. It’s A Chocolate Cake Top Layer with a Gooey-fudgy-melty-rich chocolate pudding bottom layer. Y’all Chocolate Cobbler recipes have been around since Moby Dick was a minnow; hundreds of southern lady church cookbooks have a chocolate cobbler, chocolate mud cake, chocolate pudding…
I had this week’s ‘This Week in Happiness’ post 98% done, and as I was adding the finishing touches, getting ready to schedule it, the news came through my FB feed…. Joan passed away in her sleep. I didn’t believe it at first. None of us did. There are threads upon threads in our Food…
Snickerdoodles or “Snickering Doodles” as Princess calls them is one of our family’s favorite cookies. Sweet buttery cookies, rolled in cinnamon-sugar, slow baked to a chewy-crisp perfection, and then sprinkled with a bit more cinnamon-sugar just as they’re removed from the oven to finish them off. Snickerdoodles have been declared to be the…
On October 2nd, my boots and I went to the Mixed Conference at The Woodlands Resort & Conference Center . I love when conferences are within driving distance! I can bring multiple pair of boots! 🙂 This was my first Mixed Conference, and I was excited to finally meet Paula and Susan in person, get to hang…
Do you Boo? As best I can tell, Boo-ing is a southern tradition. It seems to be as southern as monogrammed yetis, golf carts at pickup, apple pie, and maroon vs orange. (Gig ’em!) This kind of Boo-ing isn’t the kind that you do when you jump out of the shadows and scream “Boo” at…
Y’all, I am so happy to be back to posting my ‘This Week in Happiness’ posts. I love sharing what’s making me happy, and that quote up there ^^ that I found via Buzzfeed Health on Instagram absolutely shot straight to my soul and resonated deeply with me. I knew immediately that this was the…
Several years ago, our family went on our first cruise together. Nathan and I were excited, and a little apprehensive about the formal sit-down dining experience. The kids were 7 and 4, at the time, and while they’re used to sitting around our family table, and occasionally eating at restaurants that didn’t prominently feature a playground; a formal sit…
How do you master the lunchbox? Do you pack lunches a week at a time, do you include notes, sandwiches cut in fun shapes? One of my lunchbox traditions is to write a note on a napkin or paper towel and put it into the kids’ lunch boxes every day. Some days it’s a drawing,…
Grilled spinach artichoke dip pizza. Spinach and artichoke dip is one of my weaknesses;