I'm in the process of re-doing my family cookbook. It's fun! One of the things I did early on in the renovation was to change the fo...

It's fun to know that you can have a muffin and a flower with the same name...morning glory. At this time of year, the morning glories i...

When last we 'spoke', the power had been shut off and I was planning on camping at home. Wrong...before I knew it I was evacuatin...

I have a very thoughtful daughter. She knows that I love to bake. For my birthday she gave me the Zingerman's Bakehouse Cookbook and ...

Sometimes doing a end of year clear out of the bookcases brings a surprise. That's what happened to me. I found a small paperback...

Time to take a short break from the travel journal. After all, life continues to flow on in the here and now. Election Day in the U.S.A...

I love a good bread pudding. There is something comforting about the combination of sweet custard and old bread, cooked so the custard in...

I was working at a drugstore in the cosmetics department when a hair coloring company found the model Cheryl Tiegs and had her be the ima...

When my Mom was a child the family would gather at one of the aunt's homes and the dessert highlight at Christmas was plum pudding wit...

Some months seem to drag...like August does for me. Some just fly by. September did that this year. Between being careful of the arm, doi...

I'm not a vegan, although I probably should be. If you know how to combine your foods to make a complete protein it's a very healthy...

Sometimes there are ingredients hanging around the kitchen that need to be used up and my feeling is along the lines of mending a hem before...

The Cake Slice Bakers have been baking for a while from Lauren Chattman's Cake Keeper Cakes cookbook, mostly with good to great re...

We have reached the time of transition between winter and spring, and not a day too soon. When we first moved here spring was generally som...

I love fancy cookies like linzer tarts and shortbread dipped in chocolate and crescents coated in powdered sugar, but I also like simpler c...