Food for Thought and Spicing Up Our Night

When I was a girl, a family could get by on just one income. Dad worked construction. That meant lean times in the winter. We ate a lot of beans. You would think I’d not enjoy a good pot of chili now, but I do. Even in lean times, when a house is filled with love, the rest doesn’t matter.

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Spicing Up the Night

Growing up, Dad always made a big pot of Ham Hocks with Beans and Sweet Cornbread to welcome the first day of the year. Yeah, that should have been Black Eyed Peas, but none of us would eat Black Eyed Peas. I passed the tradition of a pot of beans on New Year’s Day on to my own children.

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One-Skillet Chili and Cornbread Biscuits Goodness

What is it about a nice bowl of chili and warm cornbread that make a cold night more inviting? Yeah, cradle that bowl, and let the heat from spicy goodness warm you from the inside out.

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