I am SO SORRY that it has been months since my last recipe posted.  Our oven went caput... you may remember me lamenting about it's inabilities.  Well, it just couldn't take me any longer.  And vice-versa.  After what seemed like too much research, we finally found the perfect range to fit where the defunct one once sat.  Check out this beauty (and it's matching microwave)! I'm very happy to have a working oven! My new oven is AMAZING!!!!  I can't sing its praises enough.  If you want to buy the same one, we bought ours from Home Depot .  To make a long story short, be sure to check with a team member at Home Depot that they can actually install this in your home as that wasn't the case for us.  Clearly we are good at problem solving because it's been hard at work since Thursday. Since I'm easing back into the world of oven-havers, I thought I'd make this super simple recipe from Lala's Mom, my Great-Grandmother, Mary Cornelia Sout...

Two casseroles in one week!  My kiddos are on cloud 9, and I'm thankful for the ease of dinner prep this week.  The weather has warmed up and I'm spending most of my free time working in the yard.  Hostas, day lilies, and numerous other perennials need to be split, weeds pulled, the lawn mowed (again!), and we've taken on an ambitious fix-the-backyard project complete with a fence, paver borders around the flower and berry beds, and are trying to grow grass in the places designated as lawn.  All this while working (for money), baking and cooking Lala's recipes (for fun, although money would be nice, too), and parenting.  It's the end of the school year and the kids schedules have gone haywire with concerts, recitals, and programs so the parenting bit is off the charts right now.  Juggling everyone's schedules is exhausting, and I'm looking forward to the reprieve summer brings. Since it's warmer out, and we don't have air conditioning, my ...