In the Kitchen

Our youngest is coming to spend a little time with us and we always try to have cheese straws when she comes.  When I first tasted these goodies and got the recipe, my sister-in-law was making them — John and I both fell in love with the straws.  Joyce used a Cookie King cookie press,…

Guest Blogger:  Beth Littlejohn I am honored to be allowed the privilege to write for my mother today and to share my first attempt at creating a German Chocolate Cake. I asked my spouse, Mark, what kind of sweets he would like at Christmas this year.  To my surprise he requested a German chocolate cake! …

With all the hustle and bustle I hear about going on makes me tard and I jest want to set back and take life easy.  What to fix fer dinner is an ongoing subject around here. When I ask John what we’ll have fer dinner tomorrow his answer is always, “I don’t know.”  I’ll answer…

Note:  On Monday we’ll have a guest blogger and she tells about her first ever German Chocolate Cake.  She’s our youngest. ********************************************************** Perhaps you know about the best laid plans of mice and men — I had every good intention of making this wonderful cake; however, because of the boot and other related problems, I…

My mother was not the best cook in the world — partly because she didn’t get married until she was 34 years old and had worked and boarded away from home.  She had been a telephone operator in Tuscon, Chattanooga and Albertville.  Oh, how I wished I had asked more questions about her life. Again…

And so now is the time for making Christmas candy — it’s not that we need it — it’s just the way it is.  It would make a nice gift, but John says its too good to give away. Anyway we got our ingredients together and company came in so that delayed us. Then we…

John has a birthday (89) in a few days and since rain is forecast for the next two days we opted to bake today.  No it isn’t pretty — but remember I told you up front that I’m not even a relative of Paula Dean or Julia Childs — however, I’ll go ahead to say…

Hind sight is a wonderful thing to have and I’m loaded with that. I had every intention of sharing this with you a month ago but. . . . For several years I made gingerbread men for children in our extended family and beyond. Each man was in a little plastic bag and fastened to…