Nothing says Easter or spring to me quite like lemon meringue pie, with its crown of toasted marshmallow-like meringue. It’s my mama’s favorite pie, and she always made sure there was one on the dessert table at Easter dinner. One spring many years ago now, I told her I would make the lemon meringue pie….
I have friends who have proclaimed a moratorium on Disney in their homes. Disney movies. Disney paraphernalia. Disney anything. All of it, verboten. They are convinced of the undesirable effects Disney will have on their kiddos. The dislike the common parentlessness of Disney characters, whether due to kidnapping, deceit, or death. They think this will…
When it comes to things that are “everybody’s favorite” like green bean casserole, tomato soup, buttermilk biscuits, birthday cake, and of course, cheesy potatoes (aka “funeral potatoes”), I am always on the hunt for a way to make them from scratch, without the use of canned soup or boxed mixes. There are four things behind…
Okay, so it’s spring. Really and truly spring. The cherry blossoms have burst out in all their glory (we’re going to take a drive tonight to go see them, I think) and there has been more blue sky than grey this week. It’s been breezy and just sort of – well, delicious. With that, I’m…
We were driving home from church in the pouring rain, talking about what we were going to do on such a miserable day. E, who was riding shotgun, pointed at the sign for the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum’s extension campus as we passed it. “Sometime, we ought to go there,” he said. “Well, why…
Okay, so I know this post has a fancy name, but it’s really just glorified macaroni and cheese. My little gang loves mac ‘n’ cheese, and the Kraft blue box is one of E’s go-to lunches for himself and L. I admit it’s tasty, but I also can’t help cringing a little at the fact…