Tag: pecans

• And now for something a little different — and simple

  This 2008 Better Homes & Gardens prizewinner requires something which is probably a pantry staple, one burner and no oven. Child shut-ins can help organize the graham crackers, spread the filling and stir the no-cook icing. You could omit the toasted pecans for anyone who is allergic or maybe just put them in half the…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  May 9, 2020

  Baking, Baking with kids, Comfort food, Cookies

  Better Homes & Gardens magazine, Graham crackers, No-bake baking, pecans, Recipe with pantry staple

• A dearth of dessert can lead to overdoing it on sugar; apple raspberry crisp

  

  Believe me or don’t, I don’t make a lot of desserts. We “shouldn’t” eat them; we don’t “need” them. Eventually, though, I’ll stay up too late, meditating on something sweet. Then I’ll eat too much  junk (although there’s not very much of that around here anymore) because no small serving of something sensational has appeared…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  September 10, 2019

  Desserts, Food habits, Fruit, Fruit crisps

  apples, Keebler cookies, pecans, red raspberries, Woman’s Day magazine

• Sweet Potatoes; Big Brother

  If I could get you to read one book before you head to the table on Thanksgiving, it would be Lionel Shriver’s Big Brother, her intense new novel about the meaning of food (besides survival) in our lives and our relationships. “Not irresistible tastiness but the very failure of food to reward is what drives…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 27, 2013

  Big Brother by Lionel Shriver, Holiday cooking, Holiday eating, Seasonal food, Simple foods, vegetables

  cinnamon, healthy eating, obesity, pecans, sweetpotatoes, Taste of Home