By Sheri Hopkins, Lifestyle Contributor
Hello everyone! We go from spring, winter and now today, a storm warning. I used to work at the Total gas station that was in the Country Boy, IGA, and CV’s parking lot and every time someone “older”, or my age now, would come in, they talked about the weather. It was always the weather. Now, I catch myself doing the same thing. We had this one elderly gentleman that would come in and he would always say, “I blame it on that El Nino,” except he would pronounce it “El Neeeeeno.” I would laugh every time. So, I am going to blame our weather on the El Neeeeeno. My mom always pronounced words wrong, so I can, too. I have plenty of people who like to correct me, the main one being Jacob.
Did y’all ever go to Wilco, aka Woolco? I loved to go to the Pheonix Village Mall to shop. Frougs, TG & Y, Woolco, we always had to stop at the fabric store and go eat at Furrs before heading home. Remember Venture? I have a friend and her husband called it Ventura. I loved Venture because they had bags of cotton candy to buy in the front of the store. I love cotton candy. I used to go in Chuck E Cheese, get my hand stamped, go buy cotton candy and leave. Didn’t even have a kid with me. I guess they thought someone would steal me. I wish they had an adult Chuck E Cheese where grown kids could take their parents and they could stamp our hands so nobody got the wrong parents, and we could just play games and eat pizza and our kids could pay for everything just we used to. I may ask Jacob and Loren to take me to Chuck E Cheese for my birthday in July.
There is always a funny church story. We had a preacher one time, I will not call his name, that used to get pretty fired up when he was preaching. He was preaching one Sunday, and in the middle of his sermon, he says, “grab the devil by the scruff of the neck and kick him in the butt.” He also demonstrated this while he was saying it. Talk about funny, that was funny. There was another man that was a preacher, but he was not our pastor. He is kin to most of our church people, though. His wife had a mirror standing in the back of the closet and when he opened the closet door, he saw his own feet in the mirror and thought there was someone in the closet and started hollering for them to come out. He thought it was an intruder. He had no clue that it was his own feet in the mirror. The stories on this man are endless. I will have to tell more later.
This week’s recipe I got from Becky Walker, who got it from Carla Silvey, and I don’t know where Carla got it, but Becky said it was delicious.
CRESCENT CHERRY CHEESECAKE COBBLER
1 8 oz. tube of crescent rolls
12 oz. cream cheese (softened)
3/4 cup sugar, divided
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 21 oz. can cherry pie filling
1/4 cup butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, spray an 8×8 dish with cooking spray. Unroll the crescent rolls and line four of the rolls in the bottom of the dish. Spread them out and cover the bottom of the dish. Seal the seams as best you can. Combine the cream cheese and 1/2 cup sugar. Beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Add the vanilla and continue to mix. Spread the cream cheese mixture over the crescent rolls in the dish. Pour the pie filling on top of the cream cheese mixture and spread evenly. Top with the remaining crescent roll dough. Stretch it out and pinch the seams together. Pour melted butter on top and sprinkle the rest of the sugar on top. Bake for 35-45 minutes. The top crust should be golden brown. If you don’t eat it all the first day, keep it in the refrigerator. If you are going to a large gathering, you can double the recipe. Have a great week!
