I happen to love chocolate. I don’t eat a lot of it, because I don’t eat a lot of sugar, but when I do eat it, I usually go for chocolate! During the Valentine’s Day season, chocolate becomes a nationwide obsession, practically. Heart-shaped boxes of chocolate show up in drugstores and grocery stores, magazine covers… Continue reading Chocolate cupcakes: What’s not to love?
Happy February, everybody! It’s American Heart Health month, and yesterday was “Wear Red for Women” day, to remind us that heart disease kills more American women than any form of cancer, and that we need to improve our eating, get a little more exercise, and take care of ourselves! This month is especially important to… Continue reading Heart-healthier Italian sausage-rigatoni bake
There are just some things you can’t go wrong with, in my book. For instance, bacon. Bread. Cheese. These are a few of my favorite things! (cue Julie Andrews!) This pull-apart bread features those favorite things together in one delicious savory treat. The bread is soft and fluffy, the bacon is crisp and delicious,… Continue reading A nice, warm breakfast: Bacon pull-apart bread
Zucchini. Every year, everyone plants it in their gardens, and they water and feed and weed around the plants. Then the plants produce and produce and then produce some more, and what do we all do? We complain about having too much zucchini. Then we try our best to find folks to share… Continue reading Share your zucchini! Blueberry-zucchini cake with lemon-cream cheese frosting
I’ve been craving peaches lately. Fresh, warm from the sun, sweet peaches. Soft with ripeness and velvet-y fuzz. The scent when you hold this kind of peach to your nose is sweet and fragrant, and when you bite into one, the juice drips down your chin if it’s a really good one. But it’s May,… Continue reading Mama Steph’s banana-peach breakfast bread
Recently I was asked to appear on In the Kitchen on KLTV again, and I gladly accepted. I love planning something fun to try on-air that I think the viewers will enjoy, and the state of the weather usually contributes to my choices. It’s been a hot summer in the U.S., so we have all… Continue reading Margarita Ice Cream Sandwiches For Warm Fall Days
This morning on KLTV‘s Good Morning East Texas I made a simple, lovely French dessert called a flaugnarde. It is simply a custard-like batter poured over some lovely fruit in a tart pan, baked, and served warm topped with a dusting of powdered sugar. It is basically the very same thing as a clafoutis, which I… Continue reading Raspberry-Plum Flaugnarde (Let’s Just Call it a French Flan Tart)
I’m having so much fun with “Berry Week” this week on the blog and on In the Kitchen with Mama Steph on KLTV7. I love fruit, and berries are so good for you and are easy to use in baking and cooking. Yesterday’s Blueberry Crumb bars were well-received and delicious, and today the folks at the station gave… Continue reading Berry Week Recipes: Day Two~ Lemon-Raspberry “Brownies”
Before I “punch” you, 😉 I want to say thank you to so many of you who have joined me on Facebook. I have a new page there for my cooking segment series on Good Morning East Texas; I’ll be posting recipes and videos and pictures along the way as I work for KLTV7. If… Continue reading Fresh and Simple Fruity Punch, Fit for a Queen
I’m so excited that I was asked back to cook on KLTV7 in Tyler during tonight’s 5pm news. I always look forward to doing the cooking segments with my friends at channel 7, as they are so welcoming and helpful to me, and then when the news is over, they devour the food I bring… Continue reading MamaSteph’s Lightened-Up Creamy, Incredible Mac & Cheese
In Mama Steph's Kitchen 