Carrot Cake Recipe
My memories of Carrot Cake are a dense mass of gooey brown cake with long shreds of partially cooked carrots that stuck to the roof of my mouth - and normally with pineapple thrown in for some extra-gooeyness. Definitely not good memories. But we ran across this cake...
Black Chocolate Cranberry Cookies Recipe
Black cocoa powder - who knew? We recently saw a recipe in Food & Wine (May 2014) for these cookies. We probably would have skipped right over it except for a strange ingredient: black cocoa powder. We're always up to track down an esoteric ingredient & pay an...
Homemade Tonic Water Recipe
One of our favorite summer libations is a Gin & Tonic: the perfect blend of cold & tart work together to cool us off on long, miserable, hot, Texas days. However after experimenting with some relatively expensive tonic waters we realized the stuff in...
Banana Pudding Recipe
An update on my favorite childhood dessert. Granny (my mom’s mom) was an exceptional southern cook. Fried chicken, greens, fried okra, & creamed corn were her go-to dinner. But, banana pudding was a special treat reserved for Sunday afternoons. My...