My trek to cooking club didn’t pan out last night. My sweet little red-headed baby has been coming down with a cold and yesterday it finally hit full force. She was coughing so hard she threw up on me three times. Poor thing. I know how miserable she is because she caught that cold from […]

Today I’m attempting to make mini-pavlovas for cooking club tonight. The theme is eggs and I have a dozen egg whites just waiting to be made into lovely meringues. Instead of poached rhubarb, I’m using blackberries, strawberries, and kiwi. That lovely mound on top? It’s yogurt cream. Mmm…will report back tomorrow on my success or […]

One of my favorite cookbooks is The Cheese Lover’s Cookbook and Guide by Paula Lambert, owner of the Mozzarella Company based out of Dallas, TX. Paula includes many recipes using goat cheese. One that particularly caught my eye was for a Lemon Goat Cheese Tart. If you are a new reader, then you probably don’t […]

Pie is not my favorite dessert. I like it, I just don’t love it the way I love creme brulee or ice cream. Or cheesecake. Or chocolate chip cookies. Pie is pretty near the bottom of the list–one step above panettone. That being said, I actually do love banana cream pie. It surpasses my love/hate […]

It’s time for me to resurrect the popular Spring-Summer Menu series I started last year. (For past menus click here.) I picked up a few pounds of pencil-thin asparagus this week at the grocery store. Tonight we just roasted it with a little olive oil. (On Saturday I’m making a Spring Vegetable Risotto with the […]

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 […]