I was looking at my archives a few days ago and realized that almost all of the cookies I’ve posted about on here have been for Tuesdays With Dorie. Dorie’s cookie recipes are so good. And I haven’t had to do much thinking–just look in her Baking book for all my cookie needs. Coconut Butter […]

I have a super nice friend named Nat. Guess what? She has four chickens. This is one of them. (I love, love, love this picture Nat took.) What do lady chickens do? Lay some of these beauties… She shared with me. Isn’t she the best? When I showed my husband he forbade me from using […]

Don’t you love the name of this post? My husband coined it last night as I was complaining that what I made was essentially thick, herbed pizza dough. See? It doesn’t look like what you’d normally call focaccia. Ah, well. Live and learn. But, it was very good, I’ll tell you. The kids and I […]

I sort of have a thing for quick breads topped with streusel. That’s basically what this cake is. A giant blueberry muffin topped with streusel. I used pecans instead of walnuts. It’s a pretty good cake. My little girl ate the crumb topping and left the blueberries and cake for me. (I would have done […]

So I saw this funny thing somewhere on Twitter a few days ago. It was a website for a cookie diet. (Let me see if I can find it…ah, here it is. Click here.) I’ve been on that diet for a long time. It doesn’t work. Cookies for every meal does not help you lose […]

When we lived in NY, my husband we had a lot of neighbors with Irish ancestry. There was a set of triplets of Irish descent whose mother made the most amazing Irish Soda Bread. The triplets attended the school where my husband worked. They would sell their mother’s Irish Soda Bread to friends, neighbors, and […]

This month for Cake Slice Bakers, we chose to make the Triple Lemon Chiffon Cake from Sky High: Irresistible Triple-Layer Cakes by Alisa Huntsman. Because I have a very good reason, I deviated slightly from the recipe and added strawberries. The inside is a moist lemon chiffon cake filled with tangy lemon curd and a […]

This year I swore up and down I was going to make a real Irish dessert on St. Patrick’s Day. Instead, my daughter begged me to make green mint ice cream. I threw in the white chocolate to please me, and the green mint pleased her. My husband was pleasantly surprised how much he liked […]