Author: bakequeen29

Todd’s home!! Longest three days ever! Tonight, I wanted Chinese food and didn’t want to cook. We’ve lived in our house for 14 years and have driven past an Asian restaurant – Pan Acean, for at least the 15 years that we’ve lived in the area. I ordered us some steamed dumplings and eggrolls, Todd… Continue reading 4.14.2021

Tonight the daycare held a balloon release for a memorial to the girls that passed Monday night. I left our son with Todd and went to help hand out balloons to the attendees. Our daycare is amazing and their care and compassion for all of the children never ceases to amaze me. It was amazing… Continue reading 4.9.2021

What to do with the leftover grits from Easter brunch?? Hmmmm…. Why, shrimp and grits will do!! I wasn’t feeling the total southern vibe for these, so I went with this recipe I found from an All Recipes daily email that I somehow started getting – don’t recall subscribing, but I’ve gotten some really great… Continue reading 4.7.2021

Today I needed comfort and ease in a meal. It was a tough and emotional day. Two of the children that attended our son’s school passed away. The details of the story are sad and heartbreaking. Sometimes happenings in the world really make you question things and I didn’t need to think about what we… Continue reading 4.6.2021

Before we had our son and back when we were cool, we would go somewhere fancy to celebrate Todd’s birthday. We’ve been to New York City, Memphis, and various restaurants around Dallas, most notably was Dean Fearing’s restaurant in the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Such an AMAZING dinner!!! These days, we stay close to home and… Continue reading Happy Birthday, Todd! 4.5.2021

On Friday we made a trip to our storage unit to retrieve my Baking with Julia Childs cookbook. I packed up most of my cookbooks so we could turn my office into a playroom – made sense at the time and the room gets way more attention than it did before. But that meant I… Continue reading Happy Easter – 4.4.2021

April Fool’s Day – not very apropos anymore – 2020 kind of did a number on us all! For tonight’s dinner, I decided to go rogue and do my own thing! I bought some tuna steaks from Sam’s last month, individually packaged and sealed them with my handy-dandy Foodsaver and put them in the freezer.… Continue reading 4.1.2021

I almost made it through the recipes I noted last month – oh well, I had fun with the ones I did make. I think my lesson learned is that I do better unscripted – life happens and trying to stay on task with a listed set of recipes is not realistic in my life… Continue reading April 2021

My mom taught kindergarten for 29 years and in that time she built some pretty special friendships with the teachers and teachers assistants she worked with. One of the ladies, Lala Tobias, gave me this recipe back in 1999, and it has come to be one of our favorite go-to dinners – it’s my kind… Continue reading 3.29.2021