What a great week it’s been for cooking and photographing. I’m getting so much done, and it feels good. Tonight the hubby has a meeting in the cities, so Gracie and I are ordering a pizza and watching movies. A night off from cooking sort of seems like a mini vacation, and I like that.…
If you like big, spicy, chewy, ginger cookies this is the recipe for you. They’re perfect! The cayenne can be reduced or eliminated all together if you don’t like the heat…but I think it’s what makes these cookies so awesome. 2 ¼ cups unbleached all purpose flour 2 tsp baking soda ¼ tsp salt 1…
Do you ever find yourself in a cooking rut? Making the same things over…and over… and over… The kids are crying, “MOM! Chicken AGAIN!” WAH!!!! Yeah. It happens to all of us. I remember when me and the hubby were first married my repertoire consisted of “Create a Meal” stir fry over rice (remember that…
I spent most of the day writing, and am just now surfacing to write a blog post to share with all of you. Sometimes it’s hard to switch gears after a day of intense creativity, know what I mean? I made these delicious baked apples with cream last week as a side dish for a…
We’re settling into our lazy Saturday. We enjoyed breakfast with our daughters this morning at the little neighborhood cafe…pancakes and bennys and hashbrowns…oh my! Meandered to Menards to look at even more paint. Gracie has firmly decided on a shade as pretty as an orange poppy for her bedroom. I think it will look lovely with…
Happy New Year! I hope you’re having a great start to 2013. We’re lazy this morning after staying up to watch all the festivities in New York’s Times Square. Dick Clark’s Rockin’ Eve wasn’t the same without Dick, but it was still fun to watch all the awesome performers and, or course, to see that…
Yesterday at this time I was busy in my kitchen, making the batter for these deliciously spicy and beautifully fragrant waffles. Oh myyyyy, were they ever good! This recipe makes about 8 of the big Belgian waffles, so unless you’re having company, you may have enough left over to freeze. To do this, I just…
Happy Thursday! What a beautiful day it is here in bluff country. We’re enjoying a snow day… Everything is frosted in a dreamy white covering of the fluffy white stuff. It’s still coming down, slow and lazy. Gracie is busy cutting out paper snowflakes to hang in the bay window seats….and so far I’ve been…
Good Friday afternoon Lovelies. I took a break from writing for a couple hours to treat myself to a leisurely cup of tea with my daughter Andie, some recreational reading, and a stroll to the Antique Mall a couple blocks from my house. I am SO excited about what I found… several great pieces… but…
I woke up thinking about spending the day in the kitchen, baking our favorite Christmas treats, and that’s exactly what I did. I started with the dough for Swedish pepperkakor which is still chilling in the refrigerator. I moved on to Snowballs (Russian Tea Cakes with chocolate kisses in the center…and snickerdoodles with Rolos in…