About me
I love to cook and enter contests. I have published a cookbook, "Makin' a Memory in the Kitchen with Linda" and recently won Best of Show and First Place in the Medina County Fair.
I have also won awards from the West Texas Fair and Rodeo, Medina County Fair, Medina County Nutrition Center, FHA of Canyon, Tx, Beta igma Phi and Taylor County Elec. Co-op. I was featured in an article in The Abilene Reporter News entitled "Linda is baking in basketfuls.
A native Texan I am a retired nurse. Married to the love of my life, Allen, we share one son, Chris and one daughter, Lori. I reside in Hondo, Tx where I to bake and garden and continue to make memories in my kitchen.
One of the nicest compliments I have received is "may I have that recipe".
Cooking Influences
My fondest memories are in the kitchen with my grandmothers. I watched them cook, later learning to cook at their sides.
Each of us has our favorite food and recipe and I would imagine there is a memory attached to that food. I can think of my Mema Button's kitchen and smell the teacakes baking in her oven or my Mema Cole's kitchen and smell the fresh coconut cake all these years later.
Remember to flavor everything with love and don't spare the butter!
Plant a garden of Memories
The sun will always shine
As the aroma of Mema's kitchen
Lingers always on the mind.
A home is made of many rooms to rest, to sleep to shower and do hobbies by the hour.
But the kitchen, ah, the kitchen is a room that's made of dreams, of fantasies....created by love of cooking schemes.
to touch, to smell, to visualize the wonders that occur.
And then to tadste and then to taste the results of things that were at one time just ingredients, in their places on the shelves become a wondrous mixture as though transformed by elves.
yes, a home is made of may rooms, each one has it's pleasures, but the kitchen is the best of all for finding hidden treasures.
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