If there is a dessert that is sure to impress guests it is a PERFECT bundt cake! Why not take it a step further and make it a delicious swirled red velvet bundt cake? This beautiful marbled bundt cake is perfect for Valentine’s Day, a romantic date night, a wedding shower, or any other […]
Growing up in Texas, pralines are a staple sweet and I LOVE pralines. So when I ( 7 months pregnant) told my northern- born husband I was craving a praline and he first tried to give me candied nuts and then tried to give me peanut brittle, I was a bit frustrated to […]
School may be starting but here in Texas we are entering the hottest part of the year! Maybe it’s because I’m pregnant, but I just cannot stand the heat and have been looking for every way possible to cool down. So when we were given a few fresh watermelons, I decided to get creative […]
As a pregnant mama who already has two busy kids I LOVE homemade freezer meals. It allows me to condense all that daily cooking time into one much shorter chunk of time when my husband is actually home to help! However, my husband gets tired of the crockpot freezer meals so to change it […]
As a native Texan few foods speak to my soul as much as the beautifully balanced bright and spicy flavors of Tex Mex. As we began to watch our budget I found myself craving the perfectly balanced dishes from my favorite restaurants and finally decided enough is enough I can recreate these on my […]
From salsa verde to delicious enchilada sauces, tomatillos are a staple found in many Tex Mex and Mexican dishes, however very few Americans know much about them at all! Tomatillos are a green firmer, tangier cousin of the much more common tomato and while personally it isn’t my favorite way to eat them […]
A few months ago I realized that despite my love for pineapple I had never tried (or even heard of) a pineapple cobbler! So I set out to make a delicious pineapple coconut dessert and fell in love with the result. Between toasted coconut dumplings, a caramelized pineapple filling with coconut milk, and […]
One of the great passions of my life is decorating cookies. I love finding excuses to raid my cookie cabinet where I’ve collected all the tools I need to make beautiful royally iced cookies. It’s taken a fair amount of time to test different products and find the cookie decorating tools that work and […]
Well the year is FLYING by meaning Easter will be here before we know it! Like pretty much every holiday food may not be the *point* of Easter but it certainly plays a BIG roll. As a kid I remember every year my mom would bake a couple of those oh-so popular coconut covered […]
Every year growing up I looked forward to pulling out our family Easter tree and hanging all the easter eggs and other bits and bobbles that had been collected over the years. Now that I have children of my own I always hoped to keep that tradition alive but year after year I […]
