It is certainly no secret how much I love Summer.

I love the bright blue sky on a sunny summer day.

I love the beach during the summer! I could sit out there forever in the warm sunshine just staring at the water and listening to the waves crashing. It’s when I’m at [...]

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This is the last of the pies this week and I’m sharing yet another Peanut Butter Pie recipe. On the Deliciousness Scale, it runs a close second behind the Peanut Butter Fudge Pie. It’s just a little different. If you’re not into delicous creaminess of the Peanut Butter Fudge Pie and rather [...]

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I’m on a roll with Lulu’s cookbook this week. Because the very next recipe I tried from the book was this Key Lime Pie. I carried to our pool’s opening day BBQ and they all thought it was a perfect way to start off the summer.
I’d actually never eaten a Key Lime Pie [...]

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During my five minute vacation to Gulf Shores, AL last month, we all went to a place called Lulu’s (Lulu is actually Jimmy Buffett’s sister) and it just MY kind of place. . . very margaritaville-like on the Intercoastal waterway next to a marina with beautiful boats only owned by the very wealthy. It [...]

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I think I’m going to designate this Yellow Jeep Blonde Pie Week and stick with this theme because I’ve made some doozies lately, as in OMG delicious! I found this one in one of my many, many jillion cooking magazines that I can’t help but buy if I see them in the store. [...]

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My first recipe right out of the gate (since my return from computer Hell) is an oldie, but a goodie. I so often forget about my old tried and true recipes from back in the day because I’m constantly trying NEW stuff. But this past weekend, I dug out one of my favorite [...]

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After the kids grow up?
I’ve always had all this energy that I directed toward my boys while they were growning up. You know the drill – driving them all over God’s green earth, helping them with incessant homework and their ongoing activities, and feeding them constantly. It’s stunning how much two [...]

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Although TODAY is actually her birthday, we all celebrated it yesterday. It was just me, my boys and my new daughter-in-law, but it was still all good with presents, birthday cupcakes, and a really good dinner (if I say so myself).

Frosting these cupcakes was my first attempt at using a piping bag; a homemade [...]

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On the heels of posting about feeling like a Fatty-Fat-Fat most of my life, I thought it only appropriate that I post a nice fattening recipe. I don’t want anybody feeling like they’re going to find anything consistent here, anything rational, anything that makes sense here on this site.
Now, although I bake [...]

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Sleep. A list. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Sleep works wonders. After stressing for the last couple of weeks over work and my upcoming trip, I was faced once again with trouble falling asleep at the end of an exhausting day. My brain just keeps spinning with the myriad of [...]

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