More recipes to come

Sorry for the lack of posting my creations. More to come this week, I promise. But to hold you over....

My tips for making white gravy from scratch

The "rue" is made up of melting butter and or using sausage grease to mix with your flour.

After the flour and butter mix comes to a bubble add warm milk. Very important to add your milk warm.

Wait for it to come to boil using med high temp on stove while stirring slowing so it doesn't burn on the bottom.

Obviously, half and half or Whole milk would taste better but if you are worried about calories then skim works too.

If your gravy does not thicken to the right consistancy, then you can use a little (4 tbsp) of corn starch and mix with water in seperate bowl and add to boiling gravy to thicken. You can add more of the corn starch mixture as desired making sure not to add too much so the gravy does not taste too floury. Is that a word?

Season to taste with pepper, salt, season salt, garlic or what ever you might like. Good luck!! Post your results.

Dog ate my cake?

Not really a recipe for sucess is it?  My fourteen year old had his birthday yesterday and wanted a homemade cake. So I baked a four layer chocolate and vanilla decorated cake. Unfortunately, the dog got up on the counter and ate part of the cake five minutes before we were set to leave. So a store bought cake was what we had to bring to the restaurant. Oh well. Better luck next time!