Shrimp and grits. You’ll find that dish listed on almost every diner menu in the South. I was not raised in the South, but many folks who read my blog must assume I’m a Southern granny since grandaughter Emma named me Meemaw oh so many years ago. There are more variations of the shrimp and […]
Aldi Flounder and Vegetables In Parchment – Yes Please!
OK my Aldi Peeps! (You know who you are!) I’m writing this blog post and this easy recipe just for YOU!!! (XOXO) This Flounder and Veggies in Parchment is not just healthy and beautiful. It’s good enough to serve to company! For any of my followers who have never heard of Aldi Grocery Stores…you have […]
Crab “Un-Stuffed” Baked Flounder Fillets
Flounder fillets are delicious when they are combined with a crab stuffing. Recently I threw together a “stuffing” that ended up on top of the fish instead of inside. And I’d say it turned out to be a recipe worth sharing with all of you. I thawed out a package of flounder from my local […]
Valentines Day Meets Fat Tuesday – Mixing Cookies and Cajun This Year!
This is a first for me. A combination Valentine’s Day Cookie and Fat Tuesday Cajun Jambalaya post! If you’ve been reading my blog for years, you know I always bake LOTS of Valentine cookies to send up North to our precious grandkids. And this year was no exception! These are the cookies we boxed and […]
Fake Crab Salad Quiche – From Disaster To Delicious
We’ve ALL done it. We’ve been talked into a product by someone who knows less about it than WE do!! It happened to me one day when a young chap at the meat counter at the grocery store told me their Imitation Crab Salad was “AWESOME”…! So I bought some. As you can imagine, it […]
Spaghetti Squash Shrimp Scampi…Meemaw’s Version
In honor of the recent announcement that bacon and red meat are going to kill us I decided to serve shrimp for dinner. (These gloom and doom reports sometimes make me laugh…and they always make me hungry!) I checked out a recipe for Spaghetti Squash Shrimp Scampi on a website called chefkey…and then I modified […]
Parmesan Encrusted Pollock with Potatoes and Green Beans
I love fish. And I love INEXPENSIVE fish even more. That’s why I was amazed by how good inexpensive Pollock can taste…with a little help from some dairy products you probably already have in your refrigerator. POLLOCK FILLETS For dinner I rinsed and dried some FROZEN Pollock fillets and placed them in a baking […]
A Donated Dinner for Four…A Grill To Remember
A Grill To Remember… If you’ve been wondering why you haven’t heard from me for the past week, it’s because we took a Road Trip to spend some much-loved quality time with our entire family in Indy! Those times happen much less often than we would like…so since I’ve been away from my computer and […]
Grilled Red Snapper…A Fishy First Fishtale For Me!
I love fresh fish, especially ocean varieties like Red Snapper. And for the past 41 years, Fabian Seafood trucks from Galveston, Texas have made sporadic stops in the Iowa City Dairy Queen parking lot. That’s only a few blocks from our home. And even though we have lived in our house for almost that long […]
Meemaw’s Favorite Tuna Salad…My Lunchtime Favorite Fish
When I was a child, lunchtime on Fridays during Lent usually meant one of my mom’s tuna salad sandwiches served on Wonder Bread. Mom’s simple tuna salad recipe included a spoonful of sweet pickle relish, celery, onion, and a dollop of mayonnaise. Her sandwich always had a leaf of iceberg lettuce, and she would add a […]