The inspiration for the recipes this week came from a couple of recipes I found online and were just too irresistibly easy to pass up. We had a...

Summer is for snacking. Whether you head for the lakes on the weekend, chill on your deck or invite the neighbors over and set up some lawn chairs...

Summer is officially here even though the solstice isn’t for a couple of weeks. We’ve had plenty of heat and enough of a breeze (sometimes too much...

If you’ve got kids who will be home for the summer, meal planning just got more difficult. Smoothies are always a hit with the kids and even the...

I was talking to my son about his raspberry bushes and wondering if he cut them back this year. He did cut them back more than last year and even...

Mother’s Day is Sunday. It’s a super busy day in the restaurant business with lots of people taking mom out for a meal. We’ve gone out and we’ve...

I  realize it’s almost May, but the weather makes it feel more like chili and bread season rather than soups and salads. The bread sticks have only...

I  usually associate Cherry bread with the holidays since that’s when I seem to have maraschino cherries on hand. I also use them at Easter because...

 I wonder if anyone has ever counted all of the different recipes that use crescent roll dough? I’m sure that it’s easily in the thousands and yet...

Sometimes the best part about holidays is leftovers. I love scalloped potatoes and ham more than I actually like the ham the first time around....

Easter dinner or any holiday dinner calls for side dishes that are amazing enough to steal the show from the main event. Most often ham is the...

There are several variations for the Breakfast muffin recipe. This one has chopped apples which I like and raisins which I can take or leave....

Banana bread is good, but a little boring. I also make the occasional loaf of blueberry bread because it’s less time consuming than making muffins....

A couple of weeks ago I shared one of my most baked and favorite “quick” bread recipes, One Hour French loaves. This week I’m sharing an equally...

Duchess is our 4-legged child. We adopted her as an 8 week old puppy from a local rescue 10 years ago. Her birthday is the day after mine, so it...