Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
One of the most fun things about learning to make sugar cookies is learning all the cool things that royal icing can do. This stuff really is a versatile little guy– you can make anything from 3D gazebos to those…
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My husband and I love Chinese food. I love everything about it . . . from the chopsticks, to the placemats that tell me what animal I am on the Chinese Zodiac calendar. I love that Chinese food is ready in…
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Perhaps you’ve been there . . . a friend asks you to dinner, and your heart starts to pound. What, to others, is a simple supper, is, to you, a minefield of possible pitfalls– will the hostess be offended if…
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As a Mom, I often find that getting my kids to eat is one of the biggest challenges I face. OK. Perhaps potty training and sleeping through the night are a bit bigger. But you get my meaning. Kids don’t…
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It’s been a little while since I made cookies. I can see your stern face, now. Isn’t this blog called “Cookies for England?” Wait. Let’s start over and do that in an English accent. It seems fitting. “I say…
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Bread is comfort. Absolutely nothing beats a slice of fresh bread, just out of the oven, with a puddle of melting butter in the middle. It’s bliss, I tell you. Bliss. When I first started my baking journey, the object…
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Raisins get a bad rap. When I pack snacks for my kids, raisins are always last on the list of foods requested. At a party, when someone unearths a tray of (chocolate chip?) cookies, people dive and then quickly pull…
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History says that Thomas Edison failed over 1,000 times at making the light bulb. That’s nuts. Think about that . . . if you tried every single day, it would take you almost 3 years to get it right. I…
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Like most moms, I am always trying to find ways to trim the grocery budget and save a little money. With groceries costing more every day, this gets more and more challenging. But I really couldn’t believe it when I…
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As the end of summer draws near, the evenings get a little cooler, the Canadian geese start to fly South, and . . . the peaches and apples start to get ripe!Get ready– this is one of the most…
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