I considered myself to be a decent cook and baker. However, candy making had been unchartered territory until I recently cracked the code of a favorite—chewy Texas Pecan Pralines. This culinary epiphany came only days before I left my home sweet home in Austin, Texas, to return to CU Boulder after an epic hiatus to wrap up my bachelor’s degree in journalism. When I was a little girl, I remember tasting heavenly, creamy homemade pralines, bursting with pecans, handcrafted with love by my mom. She only whipped them up a few times, but I just couldn’t get the memory of those buttery, sugary treats out of my head. They were that good. I asked her if she still had the recipe, but I knew it would be hopeless since my mom wasn’t one for keeping track of her down-home style cooking. I married my college sweetheart, a guy with the same first name as me, and began teaching myself to cook. Becoming “Kelly Times Two” was amazing, and I had ...
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Have a great Friday! Jennifer
And btw, looove the new blog background. So cute and preppy....so you!!!
You found me and that is sooo cooolll! Our family profile has been with LDS family services for a few years now and we, at least for the past year and a half or so, have been a little out of touch with them as we have been blessed to adopt two children thru the state foster care system!! Children are such a joy and a huge blessing. It's been fun seeing your blog!! You look as beautiful as ever, like you forgot that you're s'pose to be aging! :)
Anyway, thanks for looking me up and I want to send you our latest family picture as soon as we can pick it up from the photo shop.
Love ya,
Yvonne (Zuster Young) & Co.