Chocolate Castles

  • Cowboys, Pearls and Jerky

    It is good to be home. Good to be able to have big hair, sunshine, no wind or humidity and not a Tex-Mex restaurant to be found, to tempt me every day and gain back every pound I had lost to go to Texas. It was good  to come home before I had to buy… Read more

  • Sunday In Newport

    What a gorgeous day we had today. Began our day at church, where we were so blessed and then headed down to Newport to take in the wonderful sunshine and scout out some new restaurants for when Don and Janece come in from Dallas next month. Randy had had me google seafood restaurants in Newport… Read more

  • Pesto Bread

    We were up at Big Bear, the weekend before it became the focus of a manhunt for a cop killer which I’m sure you have heard about. One of the friends up there one night cooked meatball soup and pesto bread. It was wonderful. She made little meatballs and dropped them in a hug pot… Read more

  • Houston’s Key Lime Pie

    We hit a home run. Yesterday, I had said on FB that we wanted Houston’s Key Lime pie, which is our top favorite pies in the world and because it was Valentines and I just knew I would earn more points if I was showing my “thriftiness” by trying to make one at home instead… Read more

  • Happy Valentines Day

    You are seeing a new look to Chocolate Castles today. Be patient with me, as I am working out the kinks and since I am old, it is taking me longer to do that…hope your Valentines evening is filled with wonderful food, great desserts and sweet new memories.  Read more

  • More Chocolate for Valentines-Chocolate Strawberry Thumbprints

    In my new Food Network Mag for March, it had a whole section called the United States of Chocolate and lists lots of places where you can go for chocolate meals, candy factories across the states or spas where you can have chocolate facials…..so this is now on my bucket lists, to go to every… Read more