Tea Cakes & Pixie Pies
My Grandma Martha’s tea cakes and pixie pies were almost always served with the sunshine cookies and mostly around holidays. The tea cakes are my all-time favorite cookies, as an adult, I noticed everyone called these little gems “thumbprint” cookies, but they will always be tea cakes to me, and I think better! Again, you don’t need anything fancy to make these. Not even a mixer. Tea Cakes 1/2 cup butter (room temp) 1/4...
Tom Dooley
When I was 8 or 9 my brother John and I had a pet turtle named Tom Dooley, I think the name came from a popular song at the time. Anyway, he disappeared and after weeks of searching we all gave him up for dead. Then months later while we were having dinner, Tom crawled out from under the refrigerator! We were all so excited to see him, my Dad picked him up, put him on the table and gave him a pea. Moments after he swallowed it he...