mama's fruity cake

as we look to the end of summer and the food world turns fall , the last of light foods come to pass so this weekend ima make mama's fruity cake ! so light and moist it's just plain good !!lol

Ingredients

1 bx	french vanilla cake mix
1 can(s)	fruit cocktail, in syrup (drained) large can
3 c	powdered sugar
4 Tbsp	milk
2 tsp	vanilla extract
2 c	sweeten coconut

Directions

1

per-heat oven to 350 make cake according to box directions substitute water for syrup outta fruit cocktail

2

pour mix in bunt pan, spoon drained fruit on top of cake mix, bake 42 mins

3

let cool 10 mins invert to plate , while its cooling mix powdered sugar milk and vanilla in bowl till smooth pour over cake

4

sprinkle coconut over cake and serve

of course i ate it !!!!!

If there's one thing a woman in her 40's don't wanna hear is the tsk tsk tsk of her doctor cause well you know whats coming next the ... i think you need to lose just a bit if weight , naw really you do !!! DUDE have you no clue what i do , well... let me tell you one thing mr. MD man , i cook i cook for family , friends , and in competitions and well just because ! it's raining . i cook its a Monday , i cook , my kids are hungry , i cook , lets just face it i cook , like they dont eat ! i sometimes wonder who let these ppl out during the daylight, who told them just cause they got all that school they can plan my life ! really lose a lil bit a weight , tell ya what Mr Md man , i lose weight if you # 1 get a face lift #2 be nice about it ( you catch alot more flies with honey ) # 3 get off my butt ! i cook like most of the ppl in the world we have to the food world is a very rewarding place there nice ppl there ppl that like to eat and ain't afraid of there stoves , now granted i aint no Paula deen but i can hold my own in a kitchen ! and well against her even ( wow that was a ego shot ) , so of course i ate it !! and no matter what you think MR. doctor man I'm gonna keep eating !!

where did the simple life go

As i sit at my home computer or at just one of the 4 we have at the house , i look around and wonder where did the simple life go ! member when we was kids and during the summer our parents thorwed us outta the house and we only came home when the sun started going down we ran the streets, all the other parents kept an eye on us and somebody's mom always had cold kool-aid made the tv had only 3 channels and you had to get up to change it we played with sticks and rocks and rode our bikes every where i think how much my kids missed out on now its cell phones, computer games , and 700 channels on the tv they dont ride there bikes with out body pads and helments, ya'll know how many scars i got from rolling a bike all earned with pride you fall get back on and you never cried , i think could my kids handle the life that i had and why couldnt i give it to them why couldn't they enjoy the things that i did ! or would they enjoy it as much as i did or would it just be mins before there running back in the house complaining of the heat , so everythime you drive past the old places you played as a kid put down your cell phone and remember all the fun you had when you didnt even know you was having fun

yea haw y'all

so it's been awhile since i posted a blog with the new year here I'm trying to post more food stuff with all the coming and goings , it's hard for us to sit down and spend time with our family. it takes just as much time to make a meal, as It does to order one, somebody go get it, and deceiver who got what ( been there done that ) .... don't get me Wrong there are times when even i don't feel like cooking its those time s when i look to the quick fix section in my brain chili dog's and chips are nothing to be ashamed of. a spaghetti can be another one it don't have to be a cooked all day grab the ragu and spice it up they'll never know u didn't fly to Italy and get it just for them as I'm rambling on with this i think what am i gonna fix for supper ... its a quick fix night think it's gonna be beans and cornbread which on a cold night hits the spot so get in the kitchen fake it y'all it;s just cooking your family will love ya cause you just put home made on the table

memories of mama

as i decorate my house and yard for Christmas i remember my mom , she always started with the christmas tapes... yes tape's way back when right before Halloween and the planning for this holiday stared the day after christmas the year before .. yea SALES !! so we had a whole year to plan and plan she did , my mom passed dec 2 2007 and as i channel her wisdom to make the perfect holiday for my family i remember all the things she did so many decorations that the house looked like the north pole blew up ... and no place to put anything new .. but she always did even the bathrooms had trees ,special rugs, towels you know statdard stuff but always alil extra as i get all my stuff gathered up cause well lets face it... i'm not the most organized person in the world ! well not at all half the fun is hunting and finding stuff you thought u had lost ! lol i think this year mom would be proud i love blue ,silver,and white well she liked all the reds and greens and well im putting her stuff and my stuff together and yep the north pole blew up in here !! lol
so mom if your looking down and saying what is she doing... i taught her better than that, it's a hodgepodge but hey ya'll IT'S CHRISTMAS !!! i hope ya'll have great memories to make this year

the sugar is in the tea !!

hey ya'll today i'm gonna answer some questions about sweet tea yes ( tha house wine of the south ) any southerner's home you walk into the first thing you hear is hey ya'll come on in, yall want some tea ... now for you northerner's we aint hatin we just stick with what we know i been up north lots and lots of times and i love it up thar but ya'll aint got sweet tea or grit's which is probably why i just visit... sweet tea to us is like cake to a fat kid ... and fat kid's i know love cake well cause i is one ... tea is drank in good time's and bad, happy time's, sad time's, and it's always the first thing you make sure there's enough of when ya all get together now when we say " ya'll want some tea we aint talking bout hot in a fancy china cup tea we mean cold full of sugar tea the kind you pour out of a Tupperware pitcher that's been used for years and has probably got stains in it so bad that even pure Clorox wont take it out ... so here's a lesson on how to make tea
#1 place 5 to 8 tea bags (or 2 family size ) in a pot of cold water bring to a rolling boil( bout 1 1/2 quart's )
# while that boiling fill ya pitcher with half full of cold water and add sugar to taste ( i use 2 c. per gallon)
#3 after the tea has boiled bout 7 mins ( give or take ) pour it into your water and sugar this will dissolve the sugar and ya'll got perfect tea
now i put lemon in mine, but not everybody likes lemon but that's how granny did it and that the way i been drinking it all my life i even think it was put in my baby bottle as an infant so now ya'll know how we make sweet tea ... so fix ya a gallon and sit down with a good cook book and enjoy some me time !

the chest at my feet

As i awaken to the sound of my rooster outside my window scramming come feed me ! and the crispness in the fall air i have to ponder ... how'd i get so lucky ? granted life is hectic busy and a non stop merry go round but sometimes you have to look at what you have to be thankful for ... this lil fit of nostalgia has been brought on by something i did yesterday i was cleaning out a storage building and came across my granny's ceder chest , now this chest once belonged to my great granny's then granny then mama now me in it is 3 generations of wedding lining's, letter during the war WWII tickets for sugar during the depression my daddy's baby booties ( had to laugh cause well you now how girl's feel about there daddy ) postcard's from all over the world baby books death book's as i sat going through all this stuff and crying most of the time , it made me realize how lucky i am that the women in my life have kept all this stuff to past down it made me realize how tight those family ties are bound this chest with it's brittle papers clippings old pictures mostly during the turn of the century , and most of the men look like gangsters everybody back then looks like AL Capone or Clark Gable ( wow what a time to have lived ) and the women are all dressed to the nine's ... this precious chest now sits at the foot of my bed to be filled with all the things form my life to be passed to my kid's for there life .. i woke up and realized that i had 4 generations of keepsakes at my feet , to protect me , keep me happy, and to make sure i do the right things ... not to mention all the old old old recipes i found that you cant even get the ingredients for anymore my how fast life has changed so I'm thankful for my past and the strong women who have lived to make me a better person .