Today was a great day. My dad went to his first craft fair. He did a really great job and I am super proud of him! I want to share with you his site and some pictures of items he is making. He's unable to go back to work, so he is working harder with his woodworking hobby. I'm a little bias but I think he is amazing!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/McCroryWoodworking
Hi y'all! I have posted most of the recipes I cooked for Thanksgiving. I will post the rest soon. Maybe this will inspire you to cook them for Christmas. It's right around the corner!
Hope you're having a beautiful day.
Hey y'all! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving today.
I feel extra thankful this year. It has been a very eventful couple of years, and today everyone was happy, healthy and able to be here. It was beautiful. This has really become one of my favorite holidays!
Here was my menu for today:
Appetizers-
Shrimp Mold
Stuffed mushrooms (crab and shrimp)
Spinach dip
Deviled eggs
Main- Deep Fried Turkey
Sides-
Macaroni (instant pot)
Bacon wrapped green beans
Green bean and artichoke casserole
Creamed spinach
Broccoli gratin
Potato salad
Fall harvest salad
Mirliton stuffing
Shrimp and sausage gravy with biscuits. Moms chicken and cornbread dressing My sister-in-laws yummiest sweet potato casserole and cookie salad!
Sweets-
Chocolate chip cookies (for my babies and nephews!)
Pecan pie
Pralines
Mother-in-laws cheesecake
Chess Pie
Here are a few pictures from some of our dinner.
I will post recipes soon for the dishes not already posted on the site.
I am so excited to tell you I added a photography tab to the site!
My husband does majority of my food photography, but his absolute favorite type of photography is landscapes. He can capture the most beautiful Louisiana sunset, and I'm thrilled to share it with you!
So at this time there is only a gallery, but I will set it up soon to order prints of your favorite pictures, so stay tuned!
New recipe posted, y'all!
My dad is staying with us until he recovers from his surgery. He loves étouffée, so I decided to make this for him the other day. It is a Gulf Coast gem. It makes enough to feed 6-8 people a large bowl.
Crawfish Étouffée
So! I said I'd write a blog post about my new recipe "Chicken Calzones".
See, there is a backstory here. I loved this place in town so much. They had pizzas that were perfect. All sorts of calzones that were exciting to try. Salads with yummy dressings and toppings, and the perfect little sandwiches to put with them.
Well one day we went there for lunch, and when we are done eating all of our food (of course), I noticed that we had a visitor in the booth with us. Right behind me was this little ole' roach. I hurried to get out of the booth because I didn't want the darn thing to crawl on me, that would have just topped it off. Immediately I start gagging because we just ate. You know if you see those things outside of the kitchen, just imagine what's in the kitchen. That's just my opinion!
Now, I can never go back. Never. I don't care if every other place we eat at has them, I have never saw them, and that is what matters, right? We all know that places we eat at are not as clean as our own home. They can only control that to an extent.
This hasn't been all bad though. I've learned a lot of different recipes that I wouldn't have learned how to cook at home.
The Chicken Calzone is my husband's favorite. I will post my favorite, Portobello Panini, soon.
Italian night at home has been created because of this little bitty roach. Maybe there is some good that can come out of those things! HA!
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