Today, my daughter made jambalaya for our lunch. We’ve had it before, but she always thought it was a bit too spicy (like break out in a sweat spicy), so we looked over the recipe, made a few changes, and came up with a new recipe that is still big on flavor, but the heat …
I have never had a chance to celebrate Mardi Gras in NOLA, so my only Mardi Gras experience comes from working at Showboat Casino in Atlantic City when I was in my early twenties. The casino’s tagline was, “The Mardi Gras Casino” and from the minute you stepped on property the goal was to take you …
The hockey pucks that many restaurants and fast food chains try to pass off as biscuits give real southern buttermilk biscuits a bad name. And don’t get me started on the peel and pop variety that you get in the refrigerator case of most grocery stores. Real buttermilk biscuits are light and flaky, have many …
About a year ago, there was an article circulating on Facebook titled Can You Tell A Mom Has Postpartum Depression Just By Looking At Her? I’ve shared this article with several friends, and the mommy group that I am in. A friend of mine commented, “…It’s amazing how these women put on a smile and kept going …
I absolutely love potatoes. They are a blank canvas that is just asking for so many wonderful flavors to enhance them. That’s probably why loaded baked potatoes are so popular – bacon, cheese, sour cream, and chives – what’s not to love?! With the cold and snowy weather we’ve been having lately, as well as …
