Valentine's Day is always a bit of a challenge, coming as it does the day after my birthday. This year Sweetie requested a pie or tart ...

 In my world, a holiday or life event is a reason to bake. Since I'm doing less of that all the time in an effort to eliminate excess ca...

I've been baking from The Joy Of Cooking cookbook for longer than I can remember. This is one of those full compendium type cookbooks an...

That's what they always say when it's picture time. Usually I don't mind, even though I'm not particularly photogenic. Latel...

My favorite waffles are the ones where you start the batter the night before ...and it has yeast. In the morning you add eggs and melted but...

My neighbor who has the chicken, sheep and cow also has wonderful raised beds and she grows lots of veggies. Recently she asked if I'd l...

Just imagine yourself out in the woods, someplace in Italy. It's a frigid January evening and you and your hunting companions have bagge...

 

This has been a year with fewer posts and, truly, less enthusiasm about baking. It isn't that I don't have good results, nor that my...

 As the Friday cook in a Catholic family while I was growing up, I learned to cook a lot of fish dishes. Salmon Loaf Supreme was one of them...

Sweetie and I were given a wonderful early gift of a soup mix and recipe in a quart jar. It made a delicious mixed bean soup with veggies, a...

  This is going to be my last Bread Baking Babes bread for a while, because I find that I don't make bread much anymore and Sweetie has ...

For years I've been making a wonderful chocolate shortbread cookie that is rolled and cut out, but this year I had a request for a Ted ...

 Wishing you, dear reader, a magnificent turkey day...and lots of turkey with all the trimmings. One of the trimmings is often cranberry sau...

This month our wonderful Kitchen of the Month, Karen of Karen's Kitchen Stories , treated us to a great recipe for beautiful rolls with ...