For the month of April I am participating in the A to Z Blogging Challenge. You can learn more about it here, or even register to join. My theme is recipes – obviously. I have 26+ recipes that are either made, made & photographed, made, photographed & blogged or made, photographed, blogged and scheduled. My [...]
Flower waters and extracts provide a light flavor to something that wasn’t there before. You can take the simplest item and take it up a notch. I love that. Lately I have gotten into this kick with using flower waters, more specifically orange flower water and Rose flower water in my baking (and a few cooking adventures). [...]
Reveal day for Group D in the Secret Recipe Club has arrived again and it’s time to make the big reveal. The blog that I was assigned this month is So Tasty, So Yummy, a very fitting name, if I do say so myself. I had a difficult time choosing just one thing, as is [...]
It’s Monday! Happy Monday. It’s time for This Weeks Cravings and our theme this week is Freezer Meals. In other words, meals that are made ahead and frozen until you are ready to use. This blog has loads of meals on it that follow this theme, because I used to teach classes on Freezer Cooking. [...]
When Isabel (FamilyFoodie) announced that this week’s #SundaySupper was Portuguese food, I figured I’d just sit this one out – I don’t know anything about Portuguese Cooking. Except I missed last weeks too, and I didn’t want to miss out. The solution was to go hunting out a simple Portuguese recipe I could make and [...]
I admit it, I have a problem. I think the problem stems from my simple love of books. I’m a writer, an avid reader and well, I have an overwhelming number of books in my house that easily reaches in the tens of thousands – no, I’m actually serious. I’m not kidding. Books of every [...]
My kids love to look through my old clippings from magazines. I have thousands of recipes that are just slipped into sleeves that I have collected over the years. I don’t really look in it very often and was recently threatening to throw it away – my cookbook collection is out of hand, my cooking [...]
I cannot even tell you how much fun it was to prepare for This Week’s Cravings theme this week. Chocolate. I mean, come on, chocolate? Definitely. I have four daughters, trust me we love chocolate. I tried a few recipes to figure out what I wanted to make this week, so I have more [...]
For some reason, when holiday time rolls around, any holiday, we tend to enjoy playing with our food. Rather, play with how we make it, so yesterday morning in honor of St. Patrick’s Day we decided to make green pancakes, but we wanted to take the a step further and we went with Green Pistachio [...]
