Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Yum There is something so deliriously and deliciously spring-like about carrot cake. Let’s face it– nothing pleases the Easter bunny more than good old fashioned carrots– especially if they are baked into a mouth-watering treat. But if you are short on…
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Yum Once upon a time, my family and I went to the Outer Banks of North Carolina on vacation. We rented a little seaside cottage, walked barefoot in the sand, and ate freshly caught crab until we couldn’t stuff in…
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Yum Once, when I was a kid, my parents took us to a restaurant where the dessert treat was getting to pick any cookie we wanted from a mammoth buffet of Christmas cookies. Even at 6 or 7 years old,…
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Yum There is something so deliciously summery about strawberry pie. Personally, I’m a big fan of the “Shoney’s style” Mile High Strawberry Pie, but there is also something deliciously cute about hand pies. So I figure a marriage between classic strawberry…
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Yum Sundays are a very busy day for me. I get up early, prepare something to take to church for breakfast, and then go through the everyday trials of trying to find something that my kids will eat, today (who…
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Yum It is raining outside. The sky is gray and stormy, and the weather is ohhhh so cold. But inside . . . it’s a whole different story. When you open the door and step inside, you are enveloped in…
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When I was a kid, my siblings and I had a newspaper route. I remember on Easter Sunday that the newspapers had to be delivered especially early. We kids would crawl from our beds in the wee hours and fold…
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Yum Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot cross buns! If you have no daughters, give them to your sons. One a penny two a penny, Hot cross buns! Hot Cross Buns are an…
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Yum Does looking at pictures of beautiful food make you say “YUM”? Well then, you’ll love the newest feature I’ve added to the blog– the orange “YUM” button you see up there, above the picture. Yummly is an awesome…
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Yum This past Christmas, my wonderful Aunt Diane treated us to a Honeybaked Ham. Oh my goodness . . . the excitement, the glory . . . the absolute RAPTURE when we opened that classic red and gold foil and caught a…
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