Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Snowy Christmas Tree Cookies I can’t think of a better way to kick off Christmas cookie season than making some beautiful, snowy fir trees. These cookies are so cute, with their layer of sparkly snow– and they are sure to…
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Yum The French word “mousse” means, literally, “froth.” That is the perfect description for this dessert– a madcap mixture of decadent, chocolate flavor, and ethereal, light cream. Mousse is one of those showstopper desserts that isn’t terribly difficult to prepare,…
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When you think of classy desserts, I bet that your mind doesn’t jump right to “grapefruit.” I remember, as a kid, being confused when I first tasted a grapefruit. I was expecting it to taste like grapes, and, instead ….
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Yum I don’t know about you, but every year at the County Fair, I look forward to one food more than any of the others. Yes. I walk past all the tempting candy apples and sausage sandwiches . . ….
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Plaid is such a neat material. It has a rich and illustrious history . . . as far back as the 1600s, the Scottish clans were proudly weaving their own custom plaids and embellishing their family tartans to wear with…
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Yum It’s hard not to love Milano cookies. Every time I go down the juice aisle to grab kid standards like apple juice and juice boxes . . . the accursed store employees have placed the cookie aisle right there,…
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Yum Imagine a dessert so amazingly decadent . . . so amazingly smooth and velvety and soft that you feel like one of its parents was a cloud, and one was an angel. That’s exactly what Crème Brûlée tastes like. And…
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My 3 year old and I have been learning about “Heroes” lately. I think it all started with a book we read, and it has become a really neat project. When he wanted to know what a hero was, I…
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Today was a very bad day for me. It was Emilie and the “terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”We were up all night every hour on the hour with baby girl, who dropped into a peaceful slumber the second…
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Yum I have always loved recipes with a good story. Finding handwritten recipe cards at a flea market always feels like finding a little piece of treasure from the past. Learning that “this was the chicken recipe that made Grandpa…
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