We’re jammin’!

Don’t forget to pick lots of fruit and veggies this summer for year around pleasure!

Food doesn’t always have to look good to taste good! Here are some funky looking food and some flops too… but they still taste great.

Beat the heat with a kick!

Beat the Heat! FREE Fruited Minted Iced Tea Recipe. See details below.

Food and Family go together! My grandson, Spencer and I are having a grand old time preparing croutons for his favorite Caesar salad. Making croutons is easy and fun. Here’s another FREE Recipe from Shuga’s Cookin’…

Sam at age 3: Food and family go together. I’m having a happy flashback of cooking with my grandchild who is the next generation learning tried and true recipes. What a joy it is growing, gathering, and preparing ingredients together. You can see the smile on his face—he knows that all of our efforts lead to good cookin’ (and eating!). Flashforward and Sam and two-year-old Liam are having a blast making the same baked spaghetti. It’s a family favorite and will be in the cookbook for generations to come.

Shuga’s FIRST PUBLISHED recipe:

Ultimate Chocolate Cake

Fresh eggs are the ultimate for eating and baking.

April showers bring early flowers for garnishing.

Grandmommie’s sweet pickles’ recipe is almost 100 years old. Unlike other family recipes, this one hasn’t been tweaked even slightly. The only thing her grandchildren and great grandchildren do differently is, the initial sterilization of the jars is now done in the dishwasher, which didn’t exist in her pickling days. The pickles themselves and the juice of these pickles are key to her yummy potato salad and but I also pour a dab in my deviled eggs and tuna fish. My family love them on hamburgers and sandwiches and a jar make a great hostess or Christmas gift during the holidays.