Swim Fuel

I saw a shirt the other day that I completely understood.  It said, “I’m a goggle-hunting, lane-timing, towel-washing swim mom.”  That’s about the sum of it.  Except maybe for food.  Feeding swimmers can be a challenge.  They need healthy and quick and lots of it—at least at a swim meet.  Pasta salad is our [...]

Where, oh where, is the purple sugar???

It’s that time of year again—the time when I scrounge every cabinet and cubby looking for my purple, green, and gold sprinkles!  It never fails, no matter how certain I am that I purchased extra last year, I can never find 1 color!  This year it’s purple. 

Oh well!  I made do this year.  [...]

Blueberry Picking

 

These 3 picked 2 gallons of blueberries in less than 20 minutes!  (I think they ate a lot too!)  That’s a whole lot of blueberries at our house!  Big, juicy, sweet blueberries.

 

We love visiting Shuqulak Farms every summer to pick our own blueberries.  Their blueberries are so sweet and huge! [...]

Cornbread Controversy

 

Sweet?  Yellow?  White?  With flour?  Without?  Buttermilk? 

How do you take your cornbread?

I’ll admit.  I cheated for years.  You know, that little box of Jiffy.  It makes yummy, sweet cornbread.  And then, I got this book.

 

I decided to try the cornbread recipe on page 122, because you know those [...]

The reason chocolate was invented…

It’s not very often that I will rip a recipe right out of a magazine, but when I saw the one for Mississippi Mud Cookies in the August issue of Southern Living, I knew I’d have to try it.These are probably the best cookies I have ever tasted. The dough is plenty sticky, so [...]