Summer’s Best – Zucchini!
As you may know if you have read some of my blog, I have a vegetable garden. All the planting has been done for a few weeks now. We have been watering (and weeding) faithfully. Seeds have sprouted and with Spring well under way, I am now impatiently looking forward to [...]
Do your bananas ever look like this? Surprisingly, it happens in our house quite often. I have a hard time understanding it, though. My daughter likes them almost totally green. The little ones like them just barely yellow and I like them just before they turn brown. How is it that some of them get [...]
Could anyone say it any better? Chocolate is a wonderful thing! Of course Betty Crocker would know. But, what do we know about chocolate?
Today, research has shown that chocolate has some health benefits. Over 300 naturally occurring chemicals are found in chocolate. In a study conducted by Andrew Waterhouse, chocolate was found to have potent [...]
I sure wouldn’t know it was National Pancake Day if I hadn’t watched the morning news. I “googled” National Pancake Day and sure enough, today is National Pancake Day! So, in honor of National Pancake Day, here is my favorite pancake recipe:
The Best Pancake Recipe (makes about 16 small pancakes)
Ingredients:
1/2 – 3/4 cup milk
2 tablespoons [...]
When it is cold and cloudy, and it is, I just turn into a great big old grumpy bear. The only thing I want to do is hibernate. Luckily, it’s the weekend and I have a little flexibility in my schedule, so I may try to sneak in a nap, but I can’t [...]
I love meals when the whole family sits down together. Dinner in our house is always everyone at the table. We talk, eat, laugh and just have a great time being together. I really enjoy it when we have breakfast or brunch together. No one is tired or grumpy that early in the day and [...]
I have started my holiday baking. Mmmm, mmmm, do I love cookies? Yes, I do. We’ve been baking off and on for several days in between Christmas concert performances and Christmas parties with our family and friends. Here are a few more great Christmas cookies recipes with pictures.
CRANBERRY ALMOND BISCOTTI yield 24 cookies
Ingredients:
1-1/2 toasted almonds [...]
I don’t know how I forgot to start my favorite and most important list. The holidays just wouldn’t be the same for me without our favorite Christmas cookies. Some make an appearance every year. Others are special editions. Some cookies I only make at Christmas.
My most favorite cookie of all times is the Italian [...]
As a working mother of six children, I have learned a few things over time. One of the most important being the fact that I need organization when it comes to meals. Especially dinner. My husband is a great cook, but until the last few years, his schedule didn’t allow him to participate in a [...]
