Last week my childhood friend was in town with her new baby and her sweet step-daughter, Carmen. Unfortunately, they weren’t in Baton Rouge to visit and instead were here for a liver biopsy procedure for my friend’s 5 month old little girl. I knew Carmen would get pretty bored having to hang out at the…
Y’all, it’s National Donut Day! And before we get too carried away let’s chat briefly about whether you donut or you doughnut? I’m a donut’er because it’s less characters. I like to keep things simple. Regardless of your donut/doughnut preferences, it’s the day to celebrate and celebrate we are with these Homemade Chocolate Glazed Cake Donuts….
Recently, I was asked to contribute a recipe to one of our largest local magazines, inRegister. The June issue was taking on a rather manly role with Father’s Day coming right around the corner. I chose to make these Salted Caramel Chocolate Lava Cakes and include a little personal story about why I don’t make girly…
When I sat down to edit the photos from Murphy’s birthday fiesta, I knew I would have to split the party into a couple of posts. It wouldn’t be fair to share a single photo of these Pulled Pork “Macho Nachos” without sharing the recipes for how they came to be. The beauty of Murphy’s…
Growing up, anytime my mother made twice baked potatoes, she called them potato boats. Similarly, for the holidays when she would scoop her famous sweet potato casserole back into the sweet potato shells, we called them….you guessed it, “sweet potato boats”. The moment I spotted the new Ortega® Fiesta Flats™, I immediately wanted to call…
You know what gets a bad rap in my opinion ? The carrot cake. People hear carrot and crinkle their noses. And when I say people, I’m also referring to my former self. When I was out of state training for my insurance job back in the day, a former co-worker ordered a slice of…