Coconut

Coconut

Coconut is a particular taste that you must be born with.  Most people have a strong reaction, either positive or negatively, to coconut dishes.  It’s funny to watch my folks checking out the spread at the family reunions. All the cousins…

Hershey pie

Ingredients 2 eggs slightly beaten 1 1/2 cups sugar 3 tablespoons Hershey’s cocoa – 100% cacao naturally unsweetened 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 4 tablespoons butter melted 1/2 cup evaporated milk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 unbaked pie crust You can use…

Fudge

Not Exactly Uncle Donnie’s Hershey Cocoa Fudge 3 cups sugar 2/3 cup Hershey cocoa 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups whole milk or carnation 1/4 cup real butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Line 8 or 9 inch square pan with…

chilling

chilling

About 9 years ago, I met my first blue heron. He flew into my backyard, went down the ravine and waded in the stream that trickled through the wooded area.  People don’t believe me, but I saw this same heron…

biscuits

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits Cook time: 20 Min  Prep time: 10 Min  Serves: 5 Ingredients 3 c self rising flour 1/2 c lard pinch sugar 3/4 c buttermilk, possibly more 2 Tbsp melted butter Directions 1. Cut lard into flour using…

Grinch k-bobs

Layer mini marshmallow, strawberry, banana slice, and a grape on a small stick and you get Grinch Kabobs! I love the classic, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” s a television special directed and co-produced by Chuck Jones in 1966. It is…

prosperity

Prosperity can really be defined as “Nothing missing, Nothing broken: Everything Whole”. Happiness isn’t a commodity that can be purchased in a store, it’s a by-product of the way you choose to live and the things you choose to think….

decorate

  Who knew? Decorating early for Christmas is healthy.  You may be happier, according to the experts if you have your tree decorated, and your house looking like Christmas well before Thanksgiving.  I thought I was ahead of the curve…