Chocolate Castles

  • Monday Madness

    Only 4 more days to go. It is just an awesome time of year. It just smells good, no matter where you go, you are either smelling cinnamon for the pine cones everyone seems to be selling, or baked pies when you enter the grocery stores, or coffee brewing, since the cooler weather brings out… Read more

  • Stuffed bell peppers

    4 green bell peppers 1 lb of ground turkey or chicken or beef 1/2 finely chopped onion 1 teas Lawry’s seasoning salt 1/2 cup milk 1 egg 1 teas pepper 1 teas garlic powder 1 can (15 oz) of tomato sauce 2 bags of success rice (cooked and drained) Spray a 9×13 pyrex dish with… Read more

  • Sunday Pre Turkey Day

    WEll, it’s already hapening, the doorbell is ringing, the suitcases are already beginning to line the front porch and the company, they are a coming. Am washing sheets, loading up on Dr Peppers and Tums, as all our out of state company is prepared to get as much Mexican food as possible the week they… Read more

  • Fabulous Friday

    Well, 5 days to the most fabulous food day….Thanksgiving! I just put a strusel peach pie in the oven and am cooking stuffed bell peppers at the request of my daughter tonight. She and Eric and the boys are coming to dinner. So I let her pick the menu. It is great weather outside, cloudy,… Read more

  • Ellen’s Cheese Spread

    1 lb grated cheddar cheese  1 cup chopped pecans Mix: 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1/2 teas garlic (use a good size clove) 2 green onions, minced 1/2 teas Tabasco Mix all ingredients until smooth. Cover. Best if made the day before so the flavors blend. When ready to serve, cover with strawberry jam. Serve with Ritz… Read more

  • A Week from today is Thanksgiving, YIKES!

    Got the corn bread in the oven, tomorrow the pie crusts in the freezer and poof, Sunday will be here when the first of our company arrives. Christi will be here on Sunday. Our daughter from Orlando will be here so I will have company in the kitchen. We might document making the food on… Read more