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Pasta Carbonara with Corn and Chilies

July 26, 2011

Carbonara is something I’ve been wanting to try for some time now, but never had the chance, till last week. I ran across this Rachael Ray creation and couldn’t resist the beautiful picture in the magazine. Her recipe calls for some ingredients that are hard to get in my grocery store, so I changed some of them to [...]

Fresh Tomato and Basil Sauce

June 28, 2011

One major perk of blogging, and blogging recipes more specifically, is that just about everyone is willing to share excellent recipes with me. I will just be casually visiting and since everyone who reads my blog knows how much I love to cook, they will share, it’s awesome. Specifically, Cheri, our Museum director and I [...]

Pumpkin and Sausage Penne

October 12, 2010

I’ve found various pumpkin pasta recipes over the years and decided to create my own. After all pumpkin is a fall squash and not just used in sweet desserts. Or at least that’s what I tell DT, but I didn’t tell him that this time and he had seconds before I ever mentioned it contained [...]

Cajun Chicken Pasta

July 8, 2010

Want to add a little spice into your life? Your in luck with this recipe, it’s spicy, it’s creamy, it’s noodle-y, it’s delight to your senses! Heck, even the men folk in your life will love it. You could easily add some of your cajun favorites like shrimp, crawfish or sausage, whatever floats your boat. [...]

Spaghetti with Summer Squash and Tomatoes

May 12, 2010

This weeks Food Network Chef’s Challenge hosted by I Blame my mother is Tyler Florence. I just love his show he has a wonderful take on his recipes and plus he’s just so darn cute. Gotta love that. I choose his Spaghetti with Summer Squash and tomatoes, because it looked easy and uses summer squashes [...]

Spicy Romano Chicken

April 27, 2010

Last week DT and I went to eat at Johnny Carino’s Italian restaurant one of my favorite restaurants. Almost every time we go there I order the Spicy Romano chicken. I just love the creamy spicy sauce with the melt in your mouth chicken and tangy sun dried tomatoes. As usual I ate it all. [...]

Spaghetti Puttanesca

February 10, 2010

This weeks Food Network Chef Challenge hosted by I blame my Mother, is Jaime Oliver. Jaime hosts the show The Naked Chef, featuring a “stripped down” style of cooking. I don’t think I’ve ever seen his show before, but the concept sound very interesting. He has a huge list of recipes and it was hard [...]

Pasta Bolognese

September 30, 2009

This weeks Food Network Chef Challenge Hosted by I Blame My Mother was Anne Burrell. I didn’t have to look far to know that I wanted to try her Pasta Bolognese. It received 5 stars and rave reviews, that and I love a good pasta meat sauce. This recipe is definitely a labor of love [...]

Goulash

March 3, 2009

One of my all time favorite go to meals. Goulash, not the prettiest name but always a yummy easy and healthy meal to throw together quickly. I almost always have the ingredients on hand for Goulash. The great thing about this meal is you can use what you have or sub with something you don’t. [...]

Creamy Shrimp Pasta

November 11, 2008

I use to be very intimidated to cook shrimp, I was always worried I would over cook them and make them taste rubbery, fishy or some weird combination of the both. I had a dish very similar to this at a restaurant before and thought I bet I could recreate this at home. And guess [...]

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Howdy, y’all! Welcome to my blog world. I am Sweet Pea, a 20-something Texas native and a newlywed…well, almost. We wed May 2006. Shortly after we were blessed with identical twins boys born November 2007.

My husband, whom I lovingly call Double Trouble (DT), owns and operates a trucking company, and we use our CB handles as our names here.

I however recently converted from a working mom to a stay-at-home mom. I love the new challenges that it brings and enjoy sharing my triumphs, messes, and adventures with you. I hope you enjoy reading about our busy lives with babies, cooking, gardening, trucking, and bargain shopping.