Chocolate Castles

  • East & Good Meatloaf

    Randy comes home quite frequentely asking for a meatloaf sandwich. This is a really old fashioned recipe that is quick and makes a great meatloaf sandwich. When it is used for meatloaf instead of sandwiches, we serve it with mashed potatoes, fried okra or green beans, sliced tomatoes and it really is one of our… Read more

  • Persimmon Cake

    When we moved in to our new place here in California, our neighbor brought over a Persimmon cake to us. It was so moist and so tasty that I immediately went to every store and every farmers market to find these little gems so I could make one myself. I learned that they were not… Read more

  • Brownie Chocolate Cheesecake

    Oh my, am going to make this tomorrow. It is just one of those recipes that you can tell the minute you read it, it will be a favorite. Can’t wait to bite into the first bite. It was on the Just A Pinch web site. 1 bx brownie mixed and baked according to directions… Read more

  • Gingerbread Cupcakes with Browned Butter Frosting

    This time of year gives us Gingerbread lattes at Starbucks and Pumpkin Spice Frappachino’s and what better treat to go along with these wonderful cups of smooth Fall flavors than a gingerbread cupcake. I found this recipe in a Food Newwork magazine and they are so good. They had them frosted with Caramelized Mango buttercream… Read more

  • Pasadena on $19.95 a Day

    Well, our stories just keep getting better and better. Let me begin at the start. Randy rented us a truck from Uhaul today to continue our clean out of the storage and we had ordered a chair and buffet from Pier 1 for the kitchen, so I would have more space to store “goodies”. We… Read more

  • Blog Bio

    Yesterday, WordPress informed me that my next post, which is this one, would be my 500th post and the blog has received 14,290 views over the past two years. I decided that instead of posting a recipe for the 500th post, that I would give you a little history of why I began this blog.… Read more