I feel that I would be remiss if I didn’t tell you just a little about this remarkable woman…

Two things become very apparent almost as soon as you meet Granny: she loves to cook, and she lives to help people. For many years, she ran the Wednesday night suppers at her church. She came up with the menu, bought the ingredients, and helped prepare the food for hundreds of people. Granny, funded by several of the local churches, also ran a soup kitchen for the less fortunate in her community. Along with her employer (a local family doctor), she helped to established a mission in Honduras to provide care and medicine to people who otherwise had little or no access. And a few times a week, she would make some muffins or the like and head out to visit the “shut-ins” from her church: elderly folks that had lost the ability to leave their homes. Granny, in her late 80’s at the time of this writing, has handed off the church suppers, soup kitchen, and mission, but she still visits the shut-ins, bringing them joy, conversation, and, of course, a little something to eat.

Somewhere around 2019, I was flipping pages in the cookbook trying to find a recipe when a thought occurred to me: “I wish this thing had a search bar.” Ideas started forming, but it wasn’t my decision alone. So I asked Granny if she would be okay with her cookbook becoming a website, and she responded, “Of course! Great recipes are meant to be shared.”