Snowy Pecan Drops
With Christmas and the resident Grinch’s band Santa breakfast fundraiser right around the corner, it is time to dig out my Mom’s worn yet well-loved recipe box to see what magic it holds for...
Category: Food/Family/Tradition
Tea Time Tassies – A Holiday Tradition
Holiday baking was always something that involved weeks of planning and prep – and lots of freezer room for all the confections that would be needed for the big day and all the family...
Bearing THE Mark – Grandma’s Tattoo
Religion and education run through my veins like a river – whether you look at my adopted side or my birth side – the lines run deep back through both lineages. They are a...
Creme Wafers
Where I grew up, baby showers and weddings equaled cookie tables! It didn’t matter what denomination or the size and ethnicity of your family. And it didn’t matter if it was your fifth cousin...
The Snow is Falling! The Snow is Falling!
… well, not quite yet, but we are quivering with anticipation! I would like to send a shout out to Jill and my other Northern friends for potentially sending me one last snow hoorah down here...
Chocolate No-Bakes
I think one of the reasons I enjoy blogging about recipes is they tell a story the story of where I’ve been, who I am, and who I want to be. Several lifetimes ago,...
2017 Whole 30 Launch – First Two Weeks Check-In
As Robert Burns said in his poem “To a Mouse”, the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. When I began the 2017 Whole 30 Challenge, my intent was to post each week...
8 Things to do on a Grown-Up Snow Day
Snow days hold such magic in their existence, even more so now that I am an adult than when I was child. As a kid growing up in the seventies (unlike my life now as...
2017 Whole 30 Challenge – Are You With Me???
OK – confession warning — I think my entire adult life, I have had a love-hate relationship with food. I LOVE to cook and share good food with friends and family, but I HATE...
Kibbee Recipe (or for the Unfamiliar, Lebanese Meatloaf)
Alright Curry clan and Lugar clan … come with me on a journey long, long ago – to the Christmases of our past – in Johnstown, Pennsylvania – in the 1970’s…were there any better...
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