Menu Changes: Creative, Southern, Artisinal, Crafty

I found a cookbook in my garage the other day, hidden under the old boots and spiderwebbed garden tools.  It was a birthday gift from 1999. I am not sure what kind of cooking I was doing in that decade, but one thing appears spot on, I had high aspirations-given the title of the cookbook….

Cake in a Cup-Glam and Hip all in one.

It’s all the craze. Cupcake: my definition-playful, youthful, fanciful and artful eliciting feel good guiltless yumminess in 3 or 4 bites. Okay depending on the recipe, could be guiltless.But did you know that in every major city, town, county, house there is someone making fantastical cupcakes? Check out Google and search “cupcake Bakeries” and and…

Tomato and Avocado Salad-Savoring Summer

Have lots of tomatoes from the farmer’s market? Did you happen to snag some from your avid gardener? Or were you lured by the mounds of tomatoes in your local grocery store? However you get them, just get them so you can make this little big dish recipe and relish in the bounty. This little…

A Taste of Texas

Just a few pics to get February started all from the “Best of the Best From Texas II Cookbook: Select Recipes from Texas’ Favorite Cookbooks” (place your cursor over the pic to get the name of the dish) From the cookbook “Perfectly Splendid” My Mom’s San Antonio Recipe From the Cookbook “Canyon Echoes” From the…