My Neurotic Christmas Baking, Recipes Included.

I have a love/hate relationship with my Holiday Baking traditions. I have done it all my life in one way or another… ~ When I was really little, I did it with my mom. ~ When I was a kid, I’d do it myself and sell it to the adults at my church to give […]

Parking, Dating, and Baking the Deceased.

I’m still recovering from my Blogher Adventures, I must admit. I’m This week has been made up of day of dizzying tiredness, followed by a day of relative normalness where I thought I was recovered, only to be followed by a day of dizzying tiredness. If you can have jetlag from flying within your time […]

Either I Had a Moment of Culinary Genius or I’m Pregnant. . .

  I was playing kitchen with Ali yesterday morning and reveling in the “genuineness” of her play food. I was having an internal monologue to entertain myself while she “fed” me all sorts of said food. . . Seriously. . . is that supposed to be a bagel or a doughnut?? And the Fried Chicken […]

Recipes and Winners and Speeches, Oh My!!

First of all, for the exciting news: The winners of February’s Reader Appreciation Giveaway!! The winner of the Top Commenter’s $10 Target Card was: Leanna!The winner of the other $10 Target Card was: Christie! Congratulations, Ladies!! Please email me your addresses so I can get your cards out in the mail. And – I will […]

Favorite Family Recipes

One year sometime in my pre-teen years, I took all of my Mom’s conglomeration of recipes and wrote them all out on index cards and put them in a book for her birthday (this was before the advent of the USEFUL home computer. We had one, but the printer was still dot matrix with continuous […]