Peanut Butter Pie Bites

| August 12, 2011

I’ve told y’all once before that I’m very specific about peanut butter pie.  I’m a bit of a purist.  My original recipe is a rich peanut butter pudding tucked into a graham cracker and toasted peanut crust, without cream cheese or chocolate.  You can find my recipe here.  However, it’s high time I posted the [...]

No-Bake Desserts

| August 4, 2011

  Just as I was opening the windows to allow the cool sunset breeze to blow in, my Mom called to tell me it was the 26th day of temperatures reaching over 100 degrees in Dallas.  I feel for everyone experiencing the extreme heat right now, I truly do.  I ran into some people visiting [...]

Grilled Peaches with Cinnamon Ice Cream

| July 14, 2011

Most of the time, our first venture into cooking involves following a recipe.  Sometimes it’s our mother’s recipe, sometimes it’s from a cookbook, or other times we’re simply reading the back of a box.  I remember the first recipe that called me into the kitchen.  It was a recipe for minestrone soup.  It called for almost [...]