Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Nothing says refreshing summer day like Cherry Limeade– it is the perfect balance of sweet fruit and puckery sour. Cherry Limeade French Macarons are this refreshing summer beverage in adorable French cookie form. Oooh la la! What are we waiting…
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Time for Tea I had a little tea party, I had it just for me. Perhaps we’d serve some macarons? Myself and I agree. I picked out all the colors; And nary a complaint. I felt upon examining, That I…
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It’s summer, and summer means a bounty of fresh, in season fruit. There is no time better for luscious, perfect produce than these “hazy, lazy, crazy days of summer.” Peaches and Cream French Macarons take the beauty of a perfectly…
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Macaron Lady It was just a regular day when I got “the call.” The call of the wild? The call of the Canada goose? What call????? Don’t keep me in suspense here. Well, to begin with, it was a surprising…
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I’ll Be There My dad and I didn’t always get along perfectly. We argued sometimes, just like any father and daughter will do. He scolded me for coming in late and went over my dates with a fine tooth comb….
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Chocolate Roll Cake It was a hot, muggy day in Virginia. Even the trees were too hot to stir. The air was thick and muggy– as if God had just stepped out of the shower and steamed up the whole…
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Beet Greens are kind of like the little bonus crayons of the spring garden. They are one of the first greens to be able to stand up to the chilly spring evenings– and best of all, both the beet and…
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Sourdough starter is a beautiful thing. You care for it, warm it, feed it . . . rock it to sleep. Ok maybe not rock it to sleep. But you care for it. You care about it. And throwing away…
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There is just something about bread. Every culture makes it. Every home has it. Though it changes in color, shape, size, and even ingredients and preparation methods, it remains integrally the same: the food of comfort– the food of home….
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Drought I can still remember the drought. The weather in Pennsylvania was almost always fairly mild– I remember as a child the temperature seldom getting “up into the nineties.” The nights were cool, with refreshing breezes. The rains were regular,…
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