God Bless Paula Deen. First off, we had Southwest Pasta Salad from a home spun cookbook - tri-colored pasta, whole kernal corn, black beans, salsa, sour cream, cumin, garlic, chopped red pepper. It was really good! The recipe called for putting the dressinged (is that a word?) pasta on a platter and layering the vegetables. Since all of us don't like all the veggies, I had everything staged so people could layer their own with whatever they chose. There was even a little leftover, which will go to work tomorrow for Salad Day.





For dessert (our First dessert!), I made Paula Deen's Chocolate-Pecan Cobblerm served warm with vanilla ice cream. Oh. My. Gosh. Sinful, just simply sinful. Enough said.





Next week, Jeff and Ginger are making Meat Pie. I'll come up with a veggie of some sort - maybe a casserole? Hummmm. I'll have to think on it. I do know we're going to dessert it more often. :-)





I haven't done so well with my resolutions. I'm planning to hit the gym tomorrow, though. We'll see if it happens.





Till next time!





L