Want in on our secret? This blog chronicles family recipes we love. Many have been passed down from generation to generation. All of these recipes have been cooked in our kitchens and tested by our family and friends.
With five kids, Mom always found ways for us to help her in the kitchen from peeling a cucumber or potatoes to making chocolate chip cookies. She has inspired us all to cook for our families, never being afraid to try something new. Mom and Dad taught us to sit down together for meals and to always begin with a blessing.
Many of our favorite family recipes are made as a story is told. To hear some of these tales, check out the recipes for Aunt Corrine’s Chicken Spaghetti, Dad’s Smoked Turkey, Mom’s Shrimp Etouffe, Broiled Red Fish, and Vanilla Ice Cream reminiscent of the past. And don’t forget the coffee cakes, read all about how we’d quilt together in Granny’s living room and enjoy Cherry Coffee Cake when we’d finish.
We hope you’ll start your own family cooking traditions just as we have.
Here are the family chefs:
Pat and Dolores
Kent
Elizabeth
Emily
Mary Ellen
David & Kayla
Rebecca
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Savoie Secrets: It's a Family Recipe 
Andy’s Peanut Butter On Crackers Sin-sation:
Using a clean butter knife, paste and smear a generous portion of Peter Pan brand peanut butter on your favorite saltine crackers. Let them stand in a cool, dry place for 3 to 6 minutes to ferment. Eat & enjoy!
For even better results, wash the heavenly morsels down with a tall glass of cold, refreshing vitamin D milk.
Thanks for sharing! I personally prefer Ritz crackers with extra crunchy peanut butter. And, don’t forget the strawberry jam!
This is such a great idea. Technology is amazing. I am excited to access these family secrets.
Pat, I saved this to my favorites and will probably use the popsicles for my grandson’s 2nd birthday. So great seeing the family, love and miss all of you. You looked so much like your mother, it is eerie. I have seen her and your dad recently, out at Gene and Alma’s. Ya’ll have created an awesome page here and will refer to it often. Love to all of you…..
I enjoyed so much exploring your website. You have some wonderful recipes that I will begin trying to use. Thank You so much. All your pictures were also wonderful to see, your family is beautiful.
Pat, your sweet potato recipe is very close to one I’ve cooked every Thanksgiving for decades. Yummy! I’ve bookmarked your website and looks forward to your vegetarian recipes for my husband. Happy Thanksgiving!
I was intrigued when I saw your family name. It’s mine too. Maybe in the distant past our families were related. I’m guessing you live in the southern U.S. My parents come from New Brunswick and when the great expulsion took place, my fathers’ ancestors fled to the north of the province. I’m guessing that your ancestors headed south. Small world. It’s not often I see that family name where I live. Blessings on you all. 🙂
Sylvie, we do live in the South, Southwest Louisiana, about 30 miles from the gulf and 20 miles from Texas. My father’s ancestors were from Canada too and eventually settled in St. Landry Parish, then a group settled in Cameron parish where my father grew up. My father was a business man. My mother was a Boudreaux from Napoleanville who grew up in Thibodeaux. After graduating from SLI ( now ULL) in Lafayette, La., she was a teacher in Cameron and met my dad. They had 7 children. I am the 3rd and am an elected Judge in Calcasieu Parish. one of my younger brothers is the President of ULL.
There are many Savoies in this area and in the areas around St. Landry Parish and Lafourche Parish. The best information I have is that all the Savoies in Louisiana are descendants of Francois Savoie who emigrated to Port Royal from France in 1643. He and his wife Catherine died before 1678 and had 6 children, Germaine, Marie, Jeanne, Cathrine, Andrea, and Marie. The first Savoie in Louisiana was Francis Valcour Savoie, who I think was part of the 5th generation.
If you are ever in area, give us a call. Love to meet you.
Kent