By Sheri Hopkins, Lifestyle Contributor
Hello everyone! Winter, spring, summer or fall–all you have to do is wish for it and you will get one of the four seasons in Arkansas. Today is cool but tomorrow is supposed to be beautiful. We shall see.
Y’all know how my niece Kelly is always leaving her purse or wallet somewhere or losing an inheritance check, etc. Well, I have decided that our editor, Tammy Teague, is part of my family. Her hubby, Jason a.k.a. Johnny Paul Jason was eating out and they were checking out and the waitress runs up to her and says, “ma’am, you left your purse.” I had to tell y’all about it. It made me laugh to think she left her purse at a restaurant. We have to be kin folk!
Last Friday night my nephew, y’all know the one I am talking about, calls me and says, “we will have all three granddaughters if you want to come over.” I go over and sure enough all three of them are there and it’s wild. One would take a toy and the other would chase her and this went back and forth all night. I said, “I wish there was a half dozen of them!” It was crazy and I loved every minute of it. The neighbor down the road had gotten a new dog. My nephew and his wife have three of their own. When I say neighbor, we are talking like half a mile down the road. We are all talking and visiting and all of sudden total chaos breaks out. Dogs are barking, kids are screaming and running in circles. Well low and behold looking in the back glass door is the neighbor’s dog and it’s the size of a Shetland pony. His name is Rocco and Rawlings is scared to death of dogs, so she is in my lap, and Ivy Jane is on the couch and Sutton is the only one that is not bothered. Michael goes out the back door to try to run Rocco home, and low and behold we are sitting there and in runs Rocco. If you thought things were crazy before, you should have seen and heard it then. The three dogs of my nephews are barking and going more nuts than they already were. Rocco is laying in the middle of the living room floor with his legs in the air wanting his belly rubbed and the girls are hysterical. He was a gentle giant. I said, “if we had a saddle for Rocco, we could give pony rides.” I could not make this stuff up, I had more fun over there. I told them I needed some more popcorn to watch the show. An amusement park would not have been any more fun. Never a dull moment with my family. We always have some kind of chaos going on when we are together.
This week’s recipe is a pecan dessert, and I haven’t made it, but I bought the stuff to make it. It sounds so good!
PECAN PIE DELIGHT
Crust: 1 stick of butter, 2 cups graham cracker crumbs mixed together till combined and pressed in a 9×13 dish. Set in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes.
You can buy one of the tubs of the Philadelphia cheesecake filling, it’s about $6 a tub or you can make your own recipe for cheesecake filling. Spread this on the graham cracker crust.
Filling: 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup Karo syrup, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 4 tablespoons of butter, 2 cups chopped pecans. Mix all this together and cook over medium heat till bubbly and sugar is disolved. Remove from heat and let cool completely. Spread over the cream cheese layer. Spread 1 8 oz. Cool Whip on the top and sprinkle chopped pecans on top. Keep in the refrigerator.
I know it is going to be good; I cannot wait to make it. Have a blessed week. Don’t forget your Valentine.
