This past weekend I got to help host a baby shower for a good friend. Everything turned out wonderfully. I think the mommy-to-be felt showered with love and lots of pink and ruffles! One of the ladies suggested a onesie making table. I ordered some adorable iron-on appliques and bought onesies in various sizes. When [...]
My sister Lindsey came down to Houston to help throw a baby shower for a friend of hers, and she asked me to make cookie favors. I made these sailboat cookies to go along with the sailboat (but not all out nautical) theme. Here are the invites, made by my sister Lisa. And here are [...]
Some of our great friends are leaving the hustle and bustle of Amarillo and are moving down to Houston at the end of the month. We’re very sad to lose them and they will be missed! It’s even more sad since they are some of the only Aggies we know up here! We had a [...]
My friend Jackie made these for my baby shower this past weekend. She has made them before, so I knew what I was in for. These bars are pretty incredible. Everyone loved them, and a lot of people asked for the recipe. The recipe is from a Nestle cookbook that Jackie owns. I found it [...]
My Aunt Susan made this dip a few Christmases ago when we were visiting my mom’s side of the family in Richvale, California. It was so delicious that I just had to get the recipe. When she wrote it down for me I was surprised at how short the ingredient list was and how easy [...]
This salad was a big hit at the Superbowl party I brought it to last weekend. It is technically a salad, but a lot of us ate it like a dip with tortilla chips instead. I ate mine over a little mound of crushed chips. The chips add a nice crunch and saltiness. The flavors in this [...]
Our good friends Tim and Jackie had us over for the Saints v. Colts game Sunday night. There was so much food! The spread included black bean chili, queso, chips & salsa, veggies, layered Tex Mex salad, hot wings, and cookies. This is one of the main reasons I love the Superbowl. I brought the yummy layered salad [...]
To everyone who doubted me and said encouraging things like “You know tamales are really hard, right?” I have one thing to say…I made tamales and they were spectacular! Happy New Year! To bring in 2010 we had a tamale party on New Year’s Eve. The holiday issue of Fine Cooking magazine had a section [...]
This past Saturday I hosted and attended my first cookie exchange! It was a really fun afternoon of visiting with friends, and snacking on delicious cookies. I ended up with more than 4 dozen of eight different types of cookies, and I only had to make one kind. This is a pretty sweet deal. Get [...]
My Aunt Susan gave me an incredible recipe for artichoke dip a few years ago when we were visiting relatives in Richvale, California. I had a craving for it this week, but couldn’t find the recipe. After making this dip I was putting some things away in the study and I miraculously found Susan’s recipe! [...]
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