Chocolate Cake

Oh YUM! 

Chocolate Cake!

Who can resist?

This recipe looks well used - I will have to try it soon!

It was in Wilma June Faires Parker Vissotzky's recipe box.

The mystery lies in where the recipe originated...

perhaps Bernice, her mother

Another relative?

A church frined?

A fellow school teacher?

The possibilities are endless and will remain a mystery!

Please go through some of your recipes this weekend

and write down where you got it or had it first! 

Someone down the line may thank you for it! 

Have a great weekend everyone!

Chocolate cake, anyone?

Pineapple Icebox Dessert with Vanilla Wafers

Opal Faires Troop never had any kids. 

My husband and sister-in-law remember her as being very set in her ways

and always having to be on best behavior when they went to visit her in Oklahoma City.

Maybe it's because I met her as an adult. 

Or maybe it's because she was always nice to me and loved

holding my son when he was a baby.

But I liked Opal.

I liked Opal alot.

And I miss her now that she is gone. 

Which is why it is especially nice to have her recipe. 

It's the kind of recipe you could take to a potluck and never get a chance

to try it unless you were in the front of the line.

I doubt you'd have even have a crumb to bring back. 

Especially on a hot summer day.

It will be here soon enough!  

But until it is...make your family some of Opal's Pineapple Icebox Dessert

and make your plans for warmer weather!  

Family Recipe Friday: Easy Cheesy Pizza Sandwiches

AT LAST!!!  It's Friday!!!

AND April Fool's Day!

And I can't think of one thing to do for a prank.

It has just been one of THOSE kind of weeks! 

So instead of a prank - here's an easy cheesy dinner that everyone should like! 

When I make this, I usually use colby jack cheese

instead of processed cheese...

nothing personal, I just don't usually buy that stuff.

Probably because of the word "processed" in front of it.

I have been known to devour it when served as a hot dip with chips however.

I do break my standards every once in a while. :)

So here you go. 

Processed cheese or otherwise...

Pizza sandwiches can fit the bill for an easy cheesy lunch or dinner!

And I bet that is why it was in June's recipe box!!! 

She liked to fix fancy sandwiches for her folks!

Happy Friday and April Fool's Day everyone! 

March Madness Hamburger Dip for Chips

Because it's the end of what has been a looong week, I am sneaking this one in.

It's not from "the recipe box".

In fact, it's not even old!

But it is so good, I had to share it with you.

It is from a friend from work.  We always asked her to make it for our birthday potlucks.

It is THAT good!

It would be perfect to make and eat while you are having a "March Madness" get together.

A word of caution:  it will be gone before you know it.

The dip...as well as March Madness!