This recipe was inspired by Vivian Grace for our family night.  We developed our own recipe by utilizing several recipes on the internet. Our mealtime has become a way to reconnect as a family and enjoy fellowship around the table. Making spaghetti is one of the easiest meals to make, and we found this recipe…

This recipe is from our Nana Charlene Reardon and has been passed down to the generations, and for new brides who are setting up their favorite recipes for their kitchen. Ingredients One box of your favorite Vanilla Cake Batter Mix, or you can make your favorite cake mix from scratch. Coco Lopez Cream of Coconut…

My husband left our Taste of Home magazine open to this page. I love coconut. He loves lemons.  My girls love macaroons! We had to make these.  We made them for our annual Woman of Worth Picnic.  The recipe yields quite a view cookies, so we were able to keep a batch at home, too….

I have found the best cooking magazine! It’s called Taste of Home: Make and Take.  Standing in the line at Home Depot it caught my eye and every page was an announced–“Oh Parish, we have to cook this recipe!”  My love for the movie Julie and Julia (GREAT MOVIE–has a lot of scenes from France, which…

What to do with all those berries from the Farmer’s Market in Manteo? Recipe By:Polly Giebler “This is a wonderful berry crisp. I use a triple berry mixture of raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries, but just one works well too! My family loves it! Serve it with whipped cream and it looks great.” Ingredients 1 1/2…

We took an adventure out to Wegman’s Grocery Store to purchase steaks and potatoes for my daughter and her husband’s one year anniversary. While there, we found some other things that we just could not leave without purchasing.  My husband loves to cook new recipes.  Have you ever made your own pasta? He followed the…

The first time Parish made these ribs, I was laying in the bed watching the “Love Comes Softly” movie series with my windows open.  Between the laughter of little children playing outside, the perfect breeze, and the smell of his ribs on the grill, I bathed myself in joy, gratitude, and a few tears.  It’s a…

PBS Parents had a great soup recipe that my wonderful friend Monica shared with me. Recipe: Autumn Sage Apple Squash Soup Prep Time: 10 min(s) Cook Time: 20 min(s) Total Time: 30 min(s) Servings: 4 Autumn Sage Apple Squash Soup – The perfect soup to welcome fall and celebrate seasonal ingredients. Made with acorn squash,…

For National Pasta Day we made Giant Meatballs with Ricotta by Martha Stewart.  Her link is below.  Interestingly, we had a very busy memory day within our family.  Victoria and Spencer stopped by early that morning on their way to see God’s beautiful world in the mountains. My parents were busy carving walking sticks from…

Once you make this recipe, you’ll never go back to mashed potatoes!  NEVER! I made this dish for a dinner party.  It was “bring a side dish”, and I wanted to do something extra special.  This hit the nail on the head.  I left the house in such a mess, and my sweet husband, who…