This recipe from the Nonna’s Recipes series is my mother’s “tater soup” that she wrote down for my grandmother in 1980. At the time, my 22 year old mother was newly graduated from cosmetology school and a single mom. So it makes sense that this is poor folk comfort food that we likely had very often. This cheap, […]
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Nonna’s Glazed Carrots
Taking a break from sweets, next in the Nonna’s Recipes series is glazed carrots, and easy side dish my grandmother Nonna copied from a friend in the 1970s. I have no memory of eating it, so this recipe was an experiment with a great outcome. I recommend serving these carrots with poultry and would be complimented with […]
Nonna’s Divinity (First Attempt)
Well, an attempt was made. Riding a high from the peanut butter fudge success, I successfully screwed up the second recipe in the Nonna’s Recipes series, my great-grandmother Mawmaw’s divinity that my grandmother Nonna made every Christmas. I remember her struggling with it when the humidity was too high, so living in Houston, I’m already set up […]
Nonna’s Peanut Butter Fudge
First in the Nonna’s Recipes series is my great-grandmother Mawmaw’s peanut butter fudge that my grandmother Nonna made every Christmas. I have fond memories of her making it (and divinity) and fuzzy memories of my sugar buzz after eating as much as possible. So this recipe was easy to recreate since I distinctly remember the […]
Nonna’s Recipes
My family has experienced a lot of tragedies this past year, including a monster hurricane damaging my grandmother’s home in Louisiana, and then losing my grandmother and my mother most recently. Because of the water damage following the hurricane, I couldn’t handle being in the house after the storm. Physically or mentally. But my mother, […]
Fall Newsletter & Quarterly Round-Up
It’s Fall, Y’all! Well, it doesn’t really feel like fall down here in Houston, but we’re ready!! It’s been a busy quarter for me, but when is it ever not?! We’re settled into our new home, I’m sewing like a mad woman, and we’re gearing up for what is already a busy holiday season. Here’s […]
Summer Newsletter & Quarterly Round-Up
Happy Summer! Has it really been three months?! We’ve been so busy with the move, getting our old home ready for the market, and squeezing in a few trips that these past three months have flown! As I write this I’m on a cruise ship somewhere in the southern Caribbean, and it has been a […]
Spring Newsletter & Quarterly Round-Up
Happy Spring! We’re moving! Not the blog, don’t worry. My husband and I are selling our home in the suburbs and moving closer to Downtown Houston this Spring. So I hope you’ll tolerate and forgive less-than-punctual blog posts, newsletters, and basically me forgetting to brush my teeth until this transition is over. I’m seriously sleep […]
Winter Solstice Newsletter
Happy Winter Solstice! This is Red Shoes. Red Wine.‘s quarterly newsletter/e-zine, the fourth of its kind on the blog: a short and colorful recap of all the adventures we’ve had this past quarter, blog posts that were published, and a reminder to subscribers of all the goodies hidden in the password protected Subscriber’s Only page (sign-up at the […]
Autumnal Equinox Newsletter
Happy Autumnal Equinox! This is Red Shoes. Red Wine.‘s quarterly newsletter/e-zine, the second of its kind on the blog: a short and colorful recap of all the adventures we’ve had this past quarter, blog posts that were published, and a reminder to subscribers of all the goodies hidden in the password protected Subscriber’s Only page (sign-up at […]