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Recipes so good it oughta' be a sin! Icing on the Cake
 Fellow Foodies I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and wish you all a very happy New Year! We spent the holidays with Michael's family in Prescott Valley, AZ and it was the first time in 12 years together I'd had a chance to meet all his brothers and sisters! We had a marvelous time and ended the holiday with a trip to the Grand Canyon.

I'm looking forward to a couple weeks off from cooking and then I'll be back with some new recipes including some experiments with selections from Julia Child's classic cookbook that I received as a Christmas present from Michael.

In the meantime, enjoy some photos from our Grand Canyon trip! 

Spice Drop Cookies 



Butterscotch Blondie Cookies My apologies for the construction on the blog at the moment. It seems that December is the month from Hell for all things computer. I've been using a template designed by someone in exchange for links to their site. Unfortunately, they did not keep up their end of the bargain and allowed their hosting of background images and other elements to expire. So, I'm having to redo the theme for this blog.


Pecan Clusters The things you see when your laptop dies and you get bored and watch TV instead of reading newsfeeds or wasting time on Facebook. In this case it was a recipe by Paula Deen for Pecan Clusters.

Yes, I was getting my "back home" fix and watching Paula's show on Christmas Cookies and she whipped up a batch of this quick but delicious chocolate candy with pecans. In some ways it's similar to divinity but without the use of egg white and beating forever. It's also chocolate which is always a plus.

You can make this in less than 20 minutes total and have it chilling and setting up in the fridge, perfect for holiday trays or tins. In fact, this was the first candy in the rebirth of Mama's Christmas gift tins tradition. I actually got enough out of this recipe for two tins of candy with about half a dozen left over to enjoy! The recipe says it makes about 6 dozen but, of course, I make them a bigger than most of these recipe people because - I like to know I'm eating something!



Review: Martha’s Noel Nut Balls 



Mardi Gras Cake I had originally planned to post this for Mardi Gras, but thanks to a local storytelling group, I was asked to tell this story for their "Kitchen Confidential" series tonight.

So, rather than wait, I'll go ahead and let you hear it too. Just in case you weren't around Hotel Congress in Tucson tonight. Bon chance, cher!

In 1988 I found myself on a trip to New Orleans with Mama. I was lucky to be the star student in my nursing program at Piedmont Technical College in South Carolina and was chosen to attend a medical seminar down there.

My brother, who was a travel agent had arranged a rental car for us to make the trip because Mama still drove a 1977 Mercury station wagon barely up to driving to the mailbox much less Louisiana. He'd also arranged for us to stay at a 5 star hotel in the French Quarter. This was no small affair because we spent most of our childhood staying in motels, if we were lucky and almost never chain ones. Many times our family vacation would consist of driving to Myrtle Beach about 4 in the morning, changing into swimsuits in the back of the car with the windows blocked by blankets and coming home when it got dark. In fact, before this trip a hotel with inside hallways was a very rare event in Mama's life.

 


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