Joy of Country Living

That wonderful ‘warm’ weather we had last week didn’t last for long. However, it did last long enough for David and me to go out yesterday and buy a couple of pear trees to set out. Ordinarily we wouldn’t do something like that on a weekday but we were without power yesterday. The electric co-op [...]

I usually don’t like making anything too labor intensive – especially around the holidays when things are already crazy. For example one year I made a gingerbread house from scratch and another year I built a Christmas Tree from star shaped cookies. . . the cookies were graduated in size; stacked one on top of [...]

Here in Texas – San Saba is known as the ‘Pecan Capital of the World” but you don’t need to travel any further than your local grocery store to get fresh pecans to make this delicious Bourbon Pecan Pie.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Ingredients:

1 9-inch pie shell (unbaked – homemade or store bought.  Shortbread pie crust [...]

If I had to pick one thing I really missed when we left Houston, it would have to be Baskin-Robbins Eggnog Ice Cream. They only have it around Thanksgiving and Christmas – but I used to wait all year for that ice cream. There was just something wonderful and special about it. We made a [...]