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Roasted Acorn Squash Soup

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This is easy. This is so easy. Yet it is one of the best soup recipes I’ve made. The hardest part of this recipe is cutting the acorn squash in half to roast them. After that it is a cake walk. But if you haven’t done this before and you are not particularly strong …click to continue Roasted Acorn Squash Soup

Chipped Beef on Toast (S.O.S.)

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S.O.S. stands for “Chipped Beef” (…except the word is actually Shit) on a Shingle. If you are over 50 you already know this and if you are under 50 you probably wouldn’t give a “chipped beef” if I said “chipped beef” in this post. This is my Papaw Virgil’s recipe. It goes against practically …click to continue Chipped Beef on Toast (S.O.S.)

Zucchini Soup

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Last week, I was singing the praises of my friend, Tina, who gave the recipe (more of a method, I suppose) for Fresh corn with Sea Salt and Basil. When I called her the night before the post to make doubly sure she didn’t mind me broadcasting her business, she not only said “no …click to continue Zucchini Soup

Mushrooms in Cream on Toast

Mushrooms in Cream on Toast

I’m going to have to start a category called “What I cook when no one is looking.”

I am a late-in-life lover of mushrooms, and I love them a great deal now. On my recent visit to Spiceman’s F.M. 1410, I acquired a very impressive little bag of fungi. And when I sat to …click to continue Mushrooms in Cream on Toast

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