1) Royal Albert Orange Blossom Creamer and Sugar Bowl…what a find! Perfect condition… $3 a piece! 2,3 and 4) 3 views of my recent find! I already have a 12 piece place setting of Friendly Village by Johnson Brothers…these are extras…it’s always nice to have some on hand and I got these 4 dinner plates,…
Tonight we’re having buttery garlic rotisserie chicken, brown basmati rice and this simple Asian apple pear salad with homemade ginger pear vinaigrette for dinner. You could easily make this salad more substantial and serve it as a main course by adding a little smoked turkey, bleu cheese and pecans or walnuts. throw in some red…
I’ve been playing with twists on the traditional holiday fare…potatoes, cranberries, sweet potatoes/squash, pork/beef/turkey and veggie side dishes. We’re actually going out to a fancy Thanksgiving dinner at the St. James Hotel this year, so all I really have to do for that is get dressed up…but I’m thinking outside the box for our Christmas…
“It’s a cuppa flour, a cuppa sugar, a cuppa fruit cocktail with the juice. Mix it and bake it till brown and bubbly. Serve it with ice cream to cut the sweetness.” ~ Truvy (played by Dolly Parton in the movie ‘Steel Magnolias’) I watched Steel Magnolias a few nights ago and was intrigued by…
Have you ever tried to make a light, boneless-skinless, chicken dish in your crockpot only to end up with a dried out, inedible chunk of meat by the time you’re ready to eat? I had pretty much given up on trying to make anything except barbecue chicken drummies in my crockpot…and then I learned a…
Who loves chocolate? Mug cake recipes are floating around on the internet like mad, but I was reminded that I wanted to try this little dish of decadence when I saw THIS POST by my friend Ann at Sumptuous Spoonfuls. She adds red wine to hers, which I just love…and it got me thinking about…
seeing ~ fall and halloween decorations, cute costumes, piles of new books and yarn, house details while deciding on new themes and color schemes for our rooms tasting ~ skyline chili, reeses peanut butter cups and spiced cider feeling ~ the chilly autumn air while trick-or-treating with Gracie hearing ~ kids screaming and laughing at…
It’s Friday night! We love making little appetizers for our Friday night “happy hour” and these tasty chicken wings are just the ticket. The ingredient that really puts this appetizer over the top is Lyle’s Golden Syrup. If you don’t have access to this syrup, feel free to substitute honey or dark corn syrup. They’re…
Here’s another little libation I dreamed up featuring Joia all-natural soda. Joia makes some of the best, most uniquely flavored sodas I’ve ever had. Delicious and truly refreshing. I’m not much of a soda drinker…but these fruity concoctions, with flavors such as: pineapple-coconut-nutmeg, lime-hibiscus-clove, grapefruit-chamomile-cardamom, blackberry-pomegranate-ginger, and ginger-apricot-allspice, make lovely drink mixers. They’re also nice…
It’s simply gorgeous outside today! Just took a little stroll downtown to pick up a few fresh ingredients for our dinner…stopped in at the farmer’s market for a huge Hubbard squash on the way home…and decided to do a little antiquing at the antique mall that is only a block away from my house. Of…