Grilled Guac with Sour Cream and Salsa
I’ve hit on a new way to prepare avocados and we’ve been putting them away like nobody’s business. We love guac and chips around here, but I decided it was time to think outside the box with this powerhouse fruit.
A NOTE TO MY 17-YEAR-OLD SELF
Once again, time has flown by, and summer is about to be over. It seems to happen faster every year, right? I don’t know about you, but just the idea of my grands starting back to school floods me with
Swimsuit Follies
My friend was in the dressing room of a department store trying to find a bathing suit for the summer. She’d been there a while and things were looking bleak when she heard a woman giggle from another stall. My
Oh, How He Loves Us. Oh!
Who remembers climbing on a bookmobile that looked anything like this one? Wave your hand. LOL! In my first book, “Lessons Learned on Bull Run Road”, I wrote about my summer love affair with the bookmobile from the East Carroll Parish
Fresh Peach Sherbet
What do you do when the weather is heating up and you’re hankering for some homemade ice cream but you’re not quite ready to pull out the ice cream freezer? You make my Fresh Peach Sherbet! I whipped up the
God Hears Your Prayers, Mom! Yours too, Grandma!
The other evening, I watched an answered prayer walk around the ballpark, laughing and giggling like two thirteen-year-old girls. Okay, so the answer actually took the form of two thirteen-year-old girls, which explains much of the giggling. Stay with me
Shellie’s All Cheesed Up Artichoke Dip
Hey game-changers! I developed this recipe years ago. It’s become a family favorite and it’s in my cookbook, Hungry is a Mighty Fine Sauce. It’s also a popular download on my personal website. That said, I thought I had shared
Have the Hard Conversations
Because I Said So.” Sound familiar, anyone? We’ve all said it to our kids, and we might have said it to our grandkids. I have, and I’m comfortable admitting it. I’ll always contend that there are situations where “Because I
RIG Health and Beauty Favs
Makeup would definitely be listed among the many things that “have come a long way, baby!” I’m remembering the heavy cream foundation of my youth. Mercy. The very idea of your skin breathing beneath it was laughable and heaven forbid
Shellie’s Banana Pudding
Who doesn’t need a scratch banana pudding recipe, right? I can whip this one up in my sleep, (and my darling husband would eat it in his!) My banana pudding recipe came from my mama, and her mama, and, well I