American mardi gras bake recipes with 600 or more calories costing less than $3.0 per serving

Chocolate Rum Pecan Pound Cake

Let us celebrate holiday baking with this incredible chocolate pound cake. It’s great for holiday entertaining since it makes such a striking…

Strawberry-Blueberry Shortcake

This red, white and blue shortcake is perfect for July 4th!

Cajun Bread Pudding with Praline Sauce

The Praline Sauce is a stand-alone that will add depth and excitement to any cake or pudding, but it marries…

Ruby's Creole Bread Pudding & Butter Rum Sauce

NEVER throw stale bread away! You have the base for an absolutely delicious Creole bread pudding that will…

Potluck Cheeseburger Mac

We were invited to a potluck at our community center and asked what we should bring. The resounding vote was: meat! Spending the afternoon with our…

Chocolate Boston Cream Cake

Macaroon Kisses Cookie

Coconut kisses are so good. It's a holiday favorite.

Lemon Gateau Shenandoah

I created this lovely masterpiece in honor of my daughter Shenandoah whom has chosen to follow in my foot steps. As a child she loved lemons, and…

Crispy Oat Drops

Cookies filled with M&M's oats, rice krispies, coconut and nuts. So good!

Snickerdoodles

Cookies with plenty of cinnamon and sugar!

The Best Carrot Cake Ever

Rosalie Williams made the best carrot cake when I was a child. It was her specialty at church dinners. As an adult, I got her recipe because I…

Savory Creole Sweet Potato Casserole

No sweet topping here - this has breadcrumbs & bacon and the Creole twist of Jamaican Pickapeppa Sauce in the…

Island Cookies

Chocolate chip mixed with coconut and walnuts!

Garlic Lovers Chicken

Chicken was on sale this week and Patti found a beauty, it was over 7lbs. so we had plenty left over for an awesome spontaneous picnic the next day…

Tropical Macadamia Coconut Chunk Cookies

Love Macadamia nuts and white chocolate. This cookie adds yummy coconut to that combo!