<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0PTtGS_13lr05e100" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0PTtGS_13lr05e100" width="850" height="642" ><figcaption>Quinn and Alaina Morales</figcaption></figure>Alaina Morales has turned her passion for cooking into a growing home catering business, serving comfort foods and sweet treats to her community.She learned to bake, cook, and can from her mother, Beverly Crawford, using family recipes passed down through generations.“I would watch her in the kitchen as a little girl,” Morales said. “But it really started when me and my husband got married. I just started doing different recipes, and at the beginning of this year, I started catering from home.”Morales promotes her catering business, The Morales Café, on Facebook. She began small, selling baked goods at local festivals and “country days,” then expanded to full meals.“The seafood bisque is a big seller around the holidays, but I can always go for it year-round,” she said.Her sweet specialties include Oreo balls, chocolate-covered strawberries, and strawberry and blueberry cheesecake muffins.During the day, Morales works as a cashier and sales associate at TMaes + Southern Avenue Boutique. She and her husband, Quinn, have been married since February 2024.While Quinn doesn’t cook, he gladly serves as her taste-tester.“He likes my baked potatoes,” Morales said. “He loves the spuds.”Morales’ favorite dishes to cook include poppy seed chicken, seafood bisque, and fried chicken. Some are often featured in her church cooking.She and her husband serve as youth leaders at Faith Apostolic Church in Decatur, where she also serves as the Sunday school teacher. She regularly cooks for church meals between Sunday services and for the Monday night recovery class.“We cook meatloaf and spaghetti—mainly country food,” Morales said. “I did the poppy seed chicken yesterday.”Looking ahead, Morales wants to add more options to her catering menu.“I want to add a couple more entrée dishes,” she said. “Maybe desserts. I’ve been wanting to get into sourdough and bread making.”When she’s not in the kitchen, Morales enjoys painting door hangers and welcome mats, shopping, and spending time with her church family.POPPY SEED CHICKEN2-3 chicken breasts (boiled &amp; shredded)1 (10.5 oz.) can of cream of chicken1 (16 oz.) tub of sour creamTwo sleeves of ritz crackersHalf a stick of butterBoil and shred chicken. Add and mix sour cream and cream of chicken. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, &amp; poppyseeds to taste. Add to a casserole dish or aluminum pan and put in oven preheated to 350° for 5-7 minutes.Melt butter and add to finely crushed ritz crackers. Take out casserole and add ritz cracker topping and bake for an additional 10-15 minutes or until golden brown!!ITALIAN PASTA SALAD1 box of garden rotini pasta1 bag of bacon bits or cooked bacon1 container of tiny tomatoes cut in half1 head of broccoli finely chopped3/4 bottle of Italian dressingSunflower seeds (optional)Boil pasta noodles until tender, add and mix in other ingredients with pasta until it’s all incorporated!!PEACH COBBLER1 cup self-rising flour1 cup sugar1 cup milk1 tsp. of vanilla flavoring1 stick of butter (divided in half)1 can of peaches (regular size or large depending on how many peaches you want)Preheat oven to 375°. Mix together flour, sugar, milk, and vanilla flavoring. Melt half a stick of butter and pour in baking dish. Pour in peaches.Pour flour, sugar, milk vanilla mixture evenly over peaches. Melt other half of margarine and drizzle over mixture.(Optional) Lightly sprinkle cinnamon over mixture. Bake until golden, and bubbling.If you would like to nominate someone to be featured as Cook of the Week, please email Jace Henderson at jace@neshobademocrat.com or call him at (601) 656-4000.</div></body>

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