We had a friend over for Easter dinner and so I was able to use up some dough in my fridge that I had used for sweet Chelsea buns a bit ago....

A number of years ago I posted on how to color Easter eggs the old fashioned way, using boiling water, vinegar and food coloring. It's h...

Sweetie is getting closer to a round-number birthday, but still isn't there as he celebrated his natal day this past weekend. Along with...

Sweetie really enjoys pies and this year on Pi Day we were also remembering our beloved black lab Pi who left us in the fall. We still miss ...

 Memory plays a role in a lot of food preferences and this chili is no different. I think I started making chili this way...or close to this...

 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...