Peach Cobbler from Laura McLeod

Maybe because it is the end of March and feels like the end of January here in the South....

and I am hankering for a little bit warmer weather right now.

Or maybe because we enjoyed cobbler earlier this month

at the Booth Western Art Museum's Dutch Oven Cookoff...

I had to post this recipe for Peach Cobbler!

Or maybe it's just because I love Peach cobbler!

It brings to mind big drippy fresh peaches from Charlie, Texas, 

Don't blink as you go through Charlie.

You may miss both the town and the peaches. 

They are the best peaches I have ever had. 

And I live in the Peach State! 

That should tell you how good Charlie Texas peaches are!

All us kids would pile into the car and Mom would drive us to go pick peaches.

We'd come home full of peaches.

Both our stomachs as well as the paper bags in the back of the station wagon were full!

Mom would make peach preserves...

if the fresh peaches weren't devoured first!

I think I'll make some peach cobbler this weekend !

Nut Apricot Bars from Lavinia Lohrmann, Stephenville, Texas

Yesterday I gave you Hamburger Dip for March Madness games...

today I give you Nut Apricot Bars! 

If you have any room left after pigging out on the the Hamburger dip,

you might want to have these ready! 

I am going to make these soon to send up to my son in college...

I never knew Lavinia Lohrmann, but she must have been quite a character.

She was a good friend of my mother-in-law, and my husband was good friends with a son of hers.

(That was long before I entered the scene!)

If I remember correctly, she served as mayor of

Stephenville, Texas (Erath County),

was a founding member of Faith Lutheran Church in Stephenville,

and owned a ranch, among several other endeavours. 

Stephenville is creating a Memorial Nature Trail in her honor. 

She must have been quite the cook as well,

because she has several recipes in my

Faith Lutheran Church cookbook from Stephenville. 

I just love community cookbooks, don't you?

What is your favorite community cookbook?