Deep Dish Dewberry Pie

Tell me true, tell me, dew! 

Sorry - couldn't resist! 

A dewberry resembles a blackberry...or a black raspberry...

only instead of having an upright growing habit,

sends out runners across the ground.  

Now it makes me wonder if all the bushes I walk

past are dewberries and not blackberries as I always though?

Either way, this pie sounds great. 

You could always substitute blackberries or raspberries for dewberries.

I assume this pie has a lattice crust...that's the way I'll make it anyway! 

Tell me, dew, how YOU make it!   :)

Way Out West Wild Mustang Grape Juice - Family Recipe Fridays

Summer's coming! 

With summer, comes berries, wild berries!

And grapes!  Wild grapes!

Sorry to not have posted anything for sometime, but life kidnapped me.

We took a trip to Texas, where we were met by my favorite college freshman (son!)!

We stayed on a family ranch, where I took a gazillion pictures.

All sorts of wildflowers provided a feast for our eyes!

Staying on the place brought back memories

of driving on country roads in the summer time,

searching for sand plums so Mom could make plum jelly.

YUM!

By the time there are sand plums, the grapes are usually in season too.

or close anyway!

I found this recipe that Henry Vissotzky had written on some memo paper

from his desk at Tarleton State University.

Maybe this will be the summer for me to try to make

Wild Mustang Grape Juice!

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! 

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 !

Vissotzky Roasted Peanuts

Why buy the "little peanut man" peanuts when you can roast your own,

and flavor them to your own liking?

I'm just sayin'!

Nothing against little peanut characters, mind you!

I wouldn't want them to rise up against me!

Just be sure to note that you are to leave the peanuts in an UNLIGHTED oven...

maybe they are afraid of the light? 

Vintage Advertisement for Reed's Rembrandt Line - Paper with Pizazz!

This charming advertisement was on the back of one of the recipes. 

I just could not resist including it in my recipe geneaolgy blog!  

I wonder if my mother-in-law found it as charming as I do? 

She was an artist, so I like to think that she smiled at it when she saw it. 

Cute little picnikers!