I finally was able to play with the dough mixing tool that my dear friend Pam S gave me for my birthday. I'd seen them before but was...

I want it to feel like spring, but Mother Nature is not cooperating. We are having February weather...rain, chill, more rain, gray skies...

Karen of Karen's Kitchen Stories , our awesome Kitchen of the Month challenged us to make a sandwich loaf with multigrains AND sourd...

Fortune smiled on one of my sisters many moons ago when she met and later married her Sweetie. He is a good man and they love each other ...

In ancient days when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Sunset Magazine had a recipe that I immediately took to and make to this day...many year...

Does your family have a day on the weekend for making special breakfasts? Maybe you do brunch instead? Well, think about making these de...

Since this blog is a journal as well as the place where I focus on food, I'm adding this post because some folks who read this will w...

I've really enjoyed baking with the Cake Slice Bakers each month for the past few years. Some of the recipes have become favorites, o...

Over the years we haven't really had very many Easter breads in April, but I'm really glad that our Kitchen of the Month, Aparna ...

Hi there! It's been a while. Since Redding, I've been to the LA area to visit my daughter, done some gardening (mostly weeding), ...

Last weekend I took a drive to Redding, CA and had an outing to the Sundial Bridge. It was a gray day, sprinkling on and off, but I was d...

Sometimes the needs of the day mesh nicely with the desires of the spirit. A little over a week ago that happened for me. I wanted to mak...