Archive | November, 2015

Miss Opal's Whoopie Pies

Miss Opal’s Whoopie Pies

When I first moved to Peachtree City 25 years ago, I was active as a volunteer with our church youth group.  We decided to have a garage sale as a fundraiser and it just happened to be held at my house.  Garage sales are easy when everyone else brings over their discards and you have 20 teens […]

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Pop that Button! My Turkey is Done!

Pop that Button! My Turkey is Done!

I was surprised this year that my Butterball turkey didn’t have one of those plastic pop-up buttons on it to tell me when it’s done.  Instead I just cooked it to death in my convection oven.  No Salmonella or Campylobacteriosis on my watch. I mentioned in my last post that I was working on my […]

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Thanksgiving 2015

Thanksgiving 2015

I know I’m late with Thanksgiving wishes for everyone but we had our Thanksgiving today instead of yesterday so I didn’t have much to post on the actual day.  My brother, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew came for Thanksgiving today in addition to my mom, Olivia and Davis. I used my Lenox Autumn china (Yippee) and […]

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Brown Cake with No Frosting -- Can it Possibly be Good?

Brown Cake with No Frosting — Can it Possibly be Good?

My mom made this plain brown cake with no frosting.  Very plain.  No frosting.  It didn’t look very tasty but being the dutiful daughter I smiled and said “Boy Howdy” when she asked if I wanted to try it.  Then I spied a leftover dish of fruit cocktail sitting next to it.  Now we haven’t had fruit […]

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Dinner in Atlanta

Dinner in Atlanta

We enjoyed a lovely evening in Atlanta eating at two different restaurants.  One was an old favorite and the other was a new find.  We started at The Nook across from Piedmont Park. The Nook specializes in tater tot recipes.  For example, Olivia got “Totchos” which is tater tot nachos and Davis got Buffalo Tots […]

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Thoughts for Paris

Thoughts for Paris

Such a sad turn of events in a beautiful city.  My first visit to Paris was 30 years ago and I loved the city as much then as I do now.  Here I am in 1985 on my first trip. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who have lost loved ones in this vicious attack. […]

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Craftopia

Craftopia

I spent a lovely weekend at Lake Allatoona.  We had another crafting weekend with the same people as the Fourth of July DIY Weekend.  This time we made seven crafts for fall and Christmas. It rained and rained and rained and rained and rained and rained and rained and rained and rained and rained and rained and […]

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Olivia's Queso Grits and Aunt Merry Carol's Apple Dessert

Olivia’s Queso Grits and Aunt Merry Carol’s Apple Dessert

It was family night for dinner as I celebrated recipes for two lovely ladies in my life.  First up is the Queso Grits.  Olivia got rave reviews at college for her short story “Queso.”   Maybe soon you will get to read it in print.  She is quite gifted in the fine arts. She paints gorgeous pictures and […]

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Apple Rose Pastries

Apple Rose Pastries

I have seen these Apple Rose Pastries on the internet and since I just got back from Apple Land yesterday, I wanted to give them a try. I watched some German lady on Youtube making them today.  She spoke very rapidly and ironically the only thing she said that I could understand was “Pink Lady” and as […]

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