Every southern gal needs a tasty BBQ sauce recipe and I created this one last weekend upon the request of a friend. (Hi Brenda!) Why buy the mass produced, store bought sauce loaded with chemicals, when you can toss a few spices and other ingredients together in a sauce pan, heat the ingredients a couple of minutes, and [...]

We posted this last year but couldn’t find it on the web site so here it is again.  Great money saver.
I must admit, that I was skeptical- very, very skeptical about the whole home
made laundry detergent issue. But I kept on reading user reviews which raved
about the cheap costs and the wonderful results and thought [...]

Here is another family favorite that is easy to prepare and serve. Aunt Georgia serves this at Thanksgiving or Christmas. It goes well with Ham N Rolls for Sunday dinner too.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl add:
• 1 ½ cup pretzel sticks (broken into inch long pieces)
• ½ cup sugar
• 1 stick [...]

Making Granola is so easy and economical.  Granola also makes a terrific gift.  The recipe needs 2 or 2 ½ cups of nuts. You can vary the type of nuts to suit your own taste buds.  I have used sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, and pecans in various combinations.

3 cups rolled oats (not quick [...]

One of the main reasons for this web-site is to help encourage cooks everywhere to prepare more wholesome meals at home and rely less on take out or processed ingredients.  My body simply cannot tolerate some additives and preservatives found in many foods on the grocery shelves.  MSG or MonoSodium Glutamate is found in countless [...]

One of my favorite dressings is not one I can purchase at the grocery. But it is so very easy and is delicious over certain salads or served as a veggie dip. Here’s all you have to do:
Mix equal parts Ranch Dressing (I had O’Charley’s) and Salsa (I used our recently canned salsa) [...]

It was about a year ago when I registered the domain name taracooks.com, even though we did not have a web site ready for the public until November.  Well when it came time to renew this year I decided to move it to another web hosting provider because they had a newer version of Wordpress [...]

I wanted to thank all of you who visited TaraCooks at Sherlock’s this past Thursday.
I hope you enjoyed the demonstrations and found something sampled worthy of making in your own home. TaraCooks has been asked to return sometime later this year and we will try to get the word out in plenty of time [...]

Wow, we’ve certainly been busy lately.  Our oldest just graduated from high school.  Taracooks catered the graduation party the following evening.  The strawberries have been picked, frozen, and made into jam.  Cherries have been picked, pitted, and are waiting to be transformed into preserves.  We’ve put in another raised bed garden. And next week, we [...]

My husband is a big fan of Pimento Cheese.  I remember his mother packing him pimento cheese sandwiches for lunch when we were in high school.  She makes the best I have ever tasted and in case you are wondering, hubby and I were high school sweet hearts.   Here is my feeble attempt to match [...]