Earlier this month, Carl E. Stachowski of Sun City Center was looking for a Golden Goodie Bars recipe that uses Bisquick mix, dark brown sugar and coconut flakes in a 9-by-13 baking pan. The cookies are cut into squares after cooling, and then coated with powdered sugar. ...more

March 29, 2009

A few weeks ago, Johanna Tschantre of Spring Hill requested an old-fashioned, Scottish-style oatmeal stuffing like her mother used to make. Reader Carol Reeves of Zephyrhills sent her favorite version. ...more

March 22, 2009

In February, Margie Morris of Sebring was in search of a recipe for Texas Tornado Cake, her favorite from Homer's Cafeteria in Sebring. ...more

March 8, 2009

When we last left the culinary soap opera called "As The Red Velvet Cake Turns," a reader named Maria Lungo had written in early February to say that her cake was the one that was featured on the Branch Ranch Restaurant's billboard along Interstate 4 in Plant City. ...more

March 1, 2009

It appears that the recipe for the famous Branch Ranch Restaurant has been found. ...more

February 24, 2009

Obama Elected To Help Americans elected Barack Obama president instead of John McCain because we need jobs, not more tax cuts for the wealthy. Trickle-down economics crashed with the stock market. ...more

February 16, 2009

The Red Velvet Cake Controversy continues as readers recall differing origins of the house dessert of Plant City's Branch Ranch Dining Room. ...more

February 11, 2009

In last Sunday's column Addie Lee of Bratt requested a recipe for oatmeal bars. She says her husband's mother and grandmother made them for him as a youngster in Ontario, Canada, during the '50s and '60s. Every time she's tried to re-create the mixture, her kitchen begins to resemble a war zone. ...more

January 25, 2009

We find recipes that readers request. ...more

January 15, 2009

Mark Herbert had spent the better part of the last 12 hours cooking 300 pounds of hog meat. ...more

September 2, 2008