The best thing about food is it's ability to take you back. I mean waaaaaay back. I mean back to your grocery shopping around the kitchen with your mini-toy shopping cart and your Cabbage Patch doll days. Those were the days when the kitchen counters felt a mile...
Happy New Year everybody! How fast did 2011 fly by?? I felt like it was yesterday everybody was wearing those funky 2011 New Year's glasses and all of a sudden they turned into 2012. Sheesh. To keep in the party mood, let's ring in the new year with a party...
'Tis the season of baked goods overload - pie madness, cookie overkill, brittle surplus, and candy, candy, candy. Everyday has brought a new package to our doorstep from friends and family filled with more sugary goodness. My poor stomach muscles don't stand a...
I have the WORST luck when it comes to baking with yeast. There's always something that goes wrong - too hot, too cold, too much flour, too much water, too much kneading, not enough rising - sheesh. So high maintenance. In fact, it was after yet another batch of...
For the past month or so here on Recipe Sunday, I've been raving about my favorite holiday foods - mostly stuffing, stuffing, and more stuffing. But there's one food that was never on that 'favorite' list. Because I hated it. Yams. Ick. Icky, ick, ick. They were...
I know you've all been waiting with bated breath and whisk in hand over the last month for this week's Recipe Sunday to post... and the wait is finally over. We have the third and final installment of Rachael Ray's Thanksgiving in 60 Minutes menu to share with...
You know how there's certain foods that feel and taste so good that it becomes one of those special, exotic treats that you wish your mother made everyday, but you also don't wish they it made everyday because then it wouldn't be special anymore? Growing up,...
Three years ago, two months after Jeff and I moved from our first teeny apartment into our current home, we hosted Thanksgiving dinner for the first time. We had only been married a little over two years, and since we suddenly had a brand new dining room with a...
I know, I know. It's fall. Why the heck am I posting a lemon cupcake recipe instead of pumpkin spice muffins with a dollop of cinnamon buttercream frosting? Because these cupcakes are just too good to limit to summer. And so easy that I would make these for...
Awwwww - lasagna. I've made lasagna once. And I'll never make it again. The work, the expense, the calories - soooooo not worth it. I'll make the trek to a hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant and pay for baked lasagna anytime over making a batch of my own. So when...
Summer is over. Boo. But I'm one of those uber fans of Indian summers. The kind that stay warm until late into the season so that you can wear shorts and sandals with your favorite fall scarf, a pair of gloves, and a pumpkin spice latte. There's nothing like...
I'm gonna be honest. My favorite part of doing Recipe Sundays here on the bloggy blog may be photographing the food. In between Recipe Sunday Madness Weekends where Jeff and I spend two days photographing recipes, I pore over my Martha Stewart, Food & Wine, and...
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