I’ve been getting ready for our annual Valentines day dinner. This is one holiday that is dedicated to The Hunka. I usually get taken pretty good care of the rest of the year so I’ve always made it a point to do something big for Valentine’s just for my babe.
The meal for this annual event [...]

I like sales. I like sales on food. I really like sales on big hunks of meat. In particular I get giddy when I find beef of any kind on sale and I scored big time this week, twice.
Score one, rib eyes at Brookshires for $3.99 a pound. Not crappy, fatty, gristle laden steaks, but [...]

Ingredients:

2/3 cup olive oil
1 Tbls curry powder
1 small can of Limeaid
1 Tbls chili powder
2/3 cup soy sauce
1 Tbls black pepper
1 small onion chopped fine
3 Tbls honey
2 Tbls minced garlic
12 Duck breast halves cut into 1″ strips (can leave teal halves whole)

Cooking Instructions
Saute chopped onions and garlic in 1/3 cup olive oil until translucent.  Add all [...]

If there’s one thing that the women in this family can do, it’s cook. My dad is from San Antonio. My mom is was from Beaumont. I grew up on Cajun and Mexican food intermingled with some ‘momma meals’ my grandma served my whole life.
During high school I followed up a full life of Mexican [...]

I have created the perfect chocolate biscuit. The first batch I made were good, but pretty fudgy. This last batch? Ooo-la-la, boy oh boy, BABY! They were truly a biscuit. You could close your eyes and take a bite and your first thought would be “Mmmm, that’s a good biscuit. Wait…was that chocolate?!”
I can’t wait [...]

Asked for and received a slew of volunteers to taste test my marshmallows. Yippee! I started in making them last night and the 2 gelatin ones are finished and I’ll be finishing up the other two tonight. Maybe…it’s already 7:00. The first batch looked great, as good as I remembered. They may be a bit [...]

Yeast Rolls. Warm from the oven, sweet, soft, dripping in butter. If that ain’t Heaven then nothing is. I love these kinds of rolls and to think I don’t even have to knead is just the icing on the cake. Or in this case, the butter on the roll!