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Maw Maw’s Chocolate Pound Cake
My mother-in-law could cook! She taught me so much from the time my husband and I were married which is over 40 years ago. She didn’t always measure her ingredients, and it’s a habit that I now have, but when she baked, she measured. I wanted you to see her handwritten recipe that…
Pound Cake
There are so many reasons to bake a cake. Birthdays, church functions, families begging you to, just because. One of the best Pound Cake recipes ever is the one I am going to show you next. I have baked countless number of Pound Cakes, some with sour cream, some that take a dozen…
1 Hour Bread
Making bread is economical and tastes so good. This recipe is the easiest loaf bread that I make and it makes the best breakfast toast. I make homemade biscuits, cornbread and many other breads, but when I want a tasty bread for dinner and I don’t feel like making a bread that has…
Devan’s Spaghetti Bake
Quick and delicious casserole This is a delicious casserole that serves a crowd and one that everyone enjoys. My daughter makes this frequently when someone needs help for dinner or to share at an event when you are asked to bring a dish. Children love spaghetti but they will love this even…
Coleslaw
This coleslaw recipe is easy but so good. Our favorite seafood restaurant would serve this delicious type of coleslaw and it made the whole dinner even better. I make enough to be sure to have leftover for hot dog night. It goes with everything and completes any meal. Finely chopped delicious. Oleslaw
Coleslaw
Something that I make that goes with so many our our favorite meals is Cole Slaw. I don’t like just any coleslaw. I don’t like it right out of a bag already cut up, but I will use it in a pinch, I like a whole head of cabbage made into this delicious…
Pork Loin with veggies
My family volunteers me to cook a lot! If they need something for a get together, or for their children to take to school, or for a sick friend or someone recovering from surgery, they always call me, which is fine, to cook a dinner for them. Usually when you sign up for…
No Sugar No Knead Bread
There is one thing that I make on a weekly basis, sometimes more, and that is this No Sugar – No Knead bread that I found on YouTube and made by Big Family Homestead. I have made other no knead breads many times, along with breads you knead, breads made in a bread…
Pecan Pie
There are so many recipes on the internet for Pecan Pie’s, but there is only one that my husband and his brothers crave and it was the one that their sweet Maw Maw made. She would double the recipe and make 3 pies each Thanksgiving, and it’s a good thing, because they were…
Chicken Chili
My family loves chili in all shapes and sizes but this Chicken Chili recipe knocks the socks off people. My oldest daughter Paige brought this to a Halloween get together and everyone raved about it. This is perfect for cold winter nights with a pan of cornbread. Everyone thinks because it’s chicken that…
Fried Okra
I am from the South but I didn’t grow up with southern cooking, as my parents were from Chicago. When I moved to my high school home area, it was country, and I mean COUNTRY. This same area now is one of the most affluent areas in Georgia but at the time, it…
Artists in my Family
I grew up in Atlanta, Ga but my parents were from Chicago. I had a grandfather, he was married to my grandmother, but not my blood relative, who was from France. He was a character out of a movie. Lou loved red headed women and he was an amazing photographer and artist that…
