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
Tomato Mini Pies
While I like the full-size, traditional tomato pies, I really liked the idea of individual pies for when there are too many or too few people for a 9-inch deep dish pie. Inspired by the tomato pie at the Tomato Shed near Charleston, SC, I decided to use biscuit dough for the crust. I really […]
Cream Cheese Pie Crust
My mom used to make this cream cheese pie crust; she only made it for just one recipe…pecan teasers. I never considered using it for anything else until talking about pie crust ideas for a tomato pie with a friend one day. I don’t know why I had not thought of it before. it was a […]
Tomato Pie
Before moving to Georgia, tomato pie meant a pie filled with green tomatoes that had a similar taste as apple pie (recipe to follow in a later post). I discovered a savory ripe tomato pie at a local restaurant our first summer here. However, the restaurant went out of business and I almost forgot about the […]
Fried Red Tomatoes
I had never heard of frying red tomatoes until I met my husband. While my mom had only fried green tomatoes, my mother-in-law only had fried red tomatoes. In fact, my husband was kind of taken aback the first time I picked green tomatoes from the garden and announced that I was going to fry […]
Pimento Cheese Spread
I have already shared the recipe for my dad’s pimento cheese. We called his (and most others) “pimento cheese salad” as it was very similar to ham salad. It is still my favorite, especially for sandwiches. However, I have also discovered some good “pimento cheese spreads” here in the South. To me, and probably only […]
Berry and Brie Flatbread Pizza
The abundance of fresh berries is one of the many things I love about summer. While I think of them most of the time as being fresh snack or part of a dessert, the versatile summer berries can be used in savory-sweet dishes also. Recently, one of favorite savory-ish uses of berries is on flatbread […]
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 […]
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 […]
