Shoepeg Corn Casserole

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Sometimes I feel like I should disclose that my dad is a heart surgeon. It just seems like a conflict of interest to suggest that you make something that is so full of butter and cream cheese and cheddar cheese without disclosing that someone in my family might gain financially from this recommendation.

Conflict …click to continue Shoepeg Corn Casserole

Baked Chicken Spaghetti Recipe

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I laugh at the roses in the photo behind this plate of spaghetti. Pitts has this saying about putting a pig in a dress. After all, this is just chicken spaghetti. But baked Chicken Spaghetti gets a complete pass in my book. To me, with a salad and some crusty bread, Chicken Spaghetti is …click to continue Baked Chicken Spaghetti Recipe

Donna’s Good Luck Potatoes

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My friend Donna Natale Mason…what can I say other than that Texas is not nearly as colorful without her? She is a vibrant, loud, gorgeous bit of Texas stomping through the snow in Indiana in red cowboy boots. We were debutantes together in Wichita Falls and she keeps threatening to come back to Texas …click to continue Donna’s Good Luck Potatoes

Cauliflower Gruyere Gratin

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I think one of my favorite hobbies is taking perfectly good Cooking Light recipes and systematically removing the “light” part. This started out as a Cooking Light idea and then I added all the butter back in and doubled the cheese and tinkered here and there.

But the wonderful thing about this recipe is …click to continue Cauliflower Gruyere Gratin

Croque-Madame

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This is a heavenly, decadent, big, fork and knife sandwich.

For the last year or so they have been serving a version of it at the Zodiac Room at the Northpark Neimans, qualifying it as the very best mall food I have ever eaten. And, I know the restaurant has a new name but …click to continue Croque-Madame