When I was little my family lived in Miami, Florida for five years. We learned to love mangoes and key lime pie. Every Thanksgiving since then it is mandatory that we have a key lime pie to indulge ourselves when dessert time comes. It must be made with real KEY LIME juice or it’s just […]

Growing up my husband’s family called these puffed oven pancakes “Germans.” They’re also known as hootenanny. We usually eat them with butter and syrup but yesterday we had apple-raisin sauce minus the raisins. The kids don’t like raisins. Hootenanny 4 tablespoons butter6eggs1 cup milk1 cup flour1/2 tsp. salt Place butter in a 9×13 cake pan. […]

One of the surest signs that the holidays are really here is the presence of eggnog in the dairy aisle at the grocery store. We literally drink gallons and gallons before its gone for another year. This past week we decided to add it to the egg mixture for our french toast. It was heavenly! […]

My Guelita is a fabulous cook. She is also notorious for her giving nature. Anyone who stops to visit goes home laden with food. I have fond memories of visiting as a child “helping” Guelito roll the tortilla dough into balls while Guelita rolled them flat and cooked them on a huge griddle. I think […]