How To Become The Most Popular Person At Your Next Cookie Exchange 'Tis the season for family gatherings, Christmas carols, happy moments - and, of course, delightful cookies! I couldn't imagine going through the holidays without making at least three huge batches of cookies. I must make one batch of a traditional family recipe (because [...]
Don’t Let One More Thanksgiving Pass You By Without Trying This! Poor little cranberry! It spends a lot of its life cycle growing in a soggy bottom bog, just waiting and hoping to be plucked up and turned into jelly or sauce. But it is high time that people elevated cranberries to a loftier position [...]
Now You Can Have A Complete Breakfast Baking In The Oven Without Even Waking Up! Okay, you wake up in the morning and you are in the mood for ham & cheesy hash browns. So you stumble to your kitchen, barely awake and start rummaging through the refrigerator. You find the ham steak you bought [...]
Now You Can Have Great Mexican Food At Home And Avoid The Hassle & Expense Of Eating Out If you have known me for more than a minute, then you know that I have an ongoing and passionate affair with Mexican food. I crave it, I dream about it, and I will go out of [...]
How Even An Inexperienced Cook Can Deliver On A Thanksgiving Promise! Thanksgiving can be very stressful, especially for those having a houseful of guests. If those guests are your in-laws, and this is your first time cooking for them? Well, honey, you are in a boatload of hurt! Cooking a big meal, and trying to [...]
Give Me 2-3 Hours And A Crock Pot And I’ll Give You Comfort Food You know those days when you just can’t take one more drain on your energy or one more kink in your already frayed last nerve? If you live the same kind of busy life that I do, chances are you have [...]
Are You Worried About Making A Good Impression On Your In-Laws This Thanksgiving? It isn’t very often that you can turn bare bone basics into show-stopping, luxurious results. Cinderella’s transformative journey to the ball comes to mind. With that story as an example, I think you would have to agree that April’s simple, yet absolutely [...]
See How Easily You Can Combine Two Of Your Favorites Into One Awesome Dessert!? Hold the phone, Nellie – this too-good-to-be-true dessert is calling my name! Now I love a good brownie. I also love pumpkin pie. Seriously, it is almost an addiction. But put the two together and then top it with a pecan [...]
You Don’t Have To Be A Pastry Chef To Be Able To Make This Dessert Who among us doesn’t love chocolate cream pie? Who among us is old enough to remember when this type of pie was NOT made with instant pudding? Cooked pudding? Okay, so a few of you out there still can remember [...]
These Bars Are Only 7 Ingredients And Made In One Bowl—Easy Peasy! Last year my baby sister had her first baby—a darling little girl! She was was my first niece or nephew and I adore spoiling her every chance I get. For her first birthday I helped throw her a princess themed party complete with [...]