Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert is an easy dessert that you can make from a few items in the pantry and freezer at any time of the year. It works well for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Mother's Day, bridal or baby showers, etc. It is sweet and rich, yet somehow also seems light and refreshing. It is a rather nostalgic dessert as it reminds me a little of an orange push-up ice cream treat from my childhood. Plus, it is a molded gelatin dessert, which always reminds me of the past. As with other gelatin and fruit dishes, someone might call this a "Jello salad" in the United States. However, this recipe uses an entire quart of orange sherbert in addition to gelatin, so I can not bring myself … Continue Reading about Orange Cream Gelatin Dessert
Freezer Pickles
My mom used to make a lot of pickles. When I was young, most of them were made in crocks and canned. As she and I grew older, she added some pickles that did not require the work of making pickles in crocks. My favorite of these pickles was her freezer pickles. They were one […]
Mom’s Pepsi Cola Cake
There is quite a bit of irony that nearly every year of my early life I asked for a Coca-Cola Cake for my birthday. First, it is a chocolate cake and I am not the biggest fan of chocolate. Second, I really preferred Sprite or other non-cola drinks when I was young. Last, my mom’s […]
Butter and Cream in Decatur, Georgia
Butter and Cream in Decatur, Georgia exemplifies everything that is wonderful about a local food business. Great food, friendly attentive service, and an immaculate store. They scratch make small batch ice cream at their store location. Not only do they make the ice cream base from fresh ingredients, they also make the baked goods and […]
A Simple Taco Salad a.k.a Taco Haystack
It stikes me as rather odd that a simple taco salad now holds many memories and takes me back to practically another lifetime. I have no concept of how many taco salads I have consumed in my lifetime, but I do know that there were many. Almost all of them were ordered in restaurants and […]
Pepperoni Rolls: A Bite of Heaven
West Virginia is frequently referred to as “Almost Heaven.” You’ll find the reference on state signs, advertising, and in John Denver’s song Country Roads. West Virginia is the birthplace of its official state food, the pepperoni roll. Thus, an true pepperoni roll is a bite of heaven. What is a true pepperoni roll? It is a […]
Linguine Salad with a Red Wine Vinaigrette
My sister found a package of Rossi’s Black Olive Linguine on sale and brought it from Ohio to us knowing how much my daughter loves olives. It took me months awhile to figure out what to make with it. You see, I don’t like black olives. However, I have loved Rossi’s Pasta since the first […]
Peanut Butter Toast
My dad loved peanut butter almost as much as he loved candy. He would only eat creamy Jif peanut butter and he ate a lot of it. In fact, he consumed so much that I was in college before I realized that the oil could separate from the peanut butter and that eventually it could […]
Sweet Onion Burger
My husband has liked those frozen onion hamburger patties since his dad cooked them once when we were visiting a few years ago. He likes them so much that he has been known to buy and cook them when we have had direct-from-the-farmer, grass-fed beef in the freezer. I am more of a fan of […]
Stuffed Summer Squash
In an early 1960’s cookbook from Chattanooga, Tennessee, I found three or four versions of recipes for stuffed yellow summer squash. The sheer number of recipes in one cookbook led me to believe two things: First, stuffed summer squash must be a southern thing. Second, it had to be good. Thus, I set out to […]
Victory Sandwich Bar in Decatur, Georgia
I almost walked past the Victory Sandwich Bar despite having the GPS on my phone active. While it was in part because its subtle signage, it was mostly my getting distracted by of all of the appealing dining options in the couple of blocks we walked from our car. The Victory Sandwich Bar is conveniently […]
