Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Yum It’s a tradition almost as old as Christmas– making classic Hershey’s Kiss Christmas cookies, AKA Peanut Blossoms. I can remember even as a child helping to make these cookies with my Mom in the kitchen– and feeling so important…
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Yum It’s no secret that we are cookie fiends at my house. There is very nearly always some type of cookie cooling on my counters for church, school, or someone’s upcoming birthday party. One day I looked at the scads…
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Yum There is a very teeny window each year for one of my favorite fruits– the blissfully tart cranberry. I go crazy for cranberry while these little ruby gems are in season, and then I always buy plenty to freeze…
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Comfort Food Someone needs to stick up for Thanksgiving. In “olden” days stores broke out the Christmas stuff the SECOND that Thanksgiving was over. Then, somewhere along the way, they changed that to Thanksgiving day. The holiday that was supposed…
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Beauty in Brokenness I remember as a kid, one day being startled as a “thump” of something hit the window. When I went to investigate, a bird had somehow flown directly into the window and was sitting, wounded and…
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I bake. A lot. But that doesn’t mean that I know it all, or that I never make mistakes. You’d fall down and die laughing if you could see some of the horrors that I have created. In fact, I…
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Yum When I was a kid, my occasional guilty pleasure was eating sugar cubes. I’m not sure what it was about them that made them so irresistible, but on the rare occasion that I spotted those adorable little squares on…
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Yum Life is all about great, yet unexpected pairings. I mean, who would think that peanut butter and jelly would work? Yet somehow, it does. The first time I tried pizza and ranch together I thought, “Eeew. No way.” And…
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Tortoiseshell Tieks! As many of you know, I have long been an ardent admirer from afar of the oh-so-lovely Tieks ballet flats. These shoes have been touted as some of the most comfortable, stylish, “mold to your exact foot shape…
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Yum College is a terrifying, amazingly fun time of life. College is where you go to learn important things like how imaginative you can get with a bologna sandwich (ketchup? Butter? Peanut butter? Eeeeew. Please don’t ask how I know…
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