My son is double digits! His birthday was Friday. It’s hard to believe. I can’t really remember life before Asher, but I certainly can’t believe I have a 10 year old, and that we are fast approaching adolescence! I debated on whether or not to post about his birthday celebrating because I have already written … Continue reading Double-Digit Birthday Boy Celebrating!
I'm on my second lap. It's year 2 for my blog and I have posted through each season. I like to write about seasonally inspired foods and since I began my blog last August, I posted some of my perennial fall favorites lastSeptember and October. In the next couple of weeks, I plan to … Continue reading Fall Favorites
I remember first having this super-moist strawberry cake at a women's retreat. It was made in a loaf pan and sliced. It was outstanding! (And it wasn't even adorned with frosting.) It was delicious. I tracked down who made it and the baker immediately wrote the recipe down on a little spiral notebook page by … Continue reading Strawberry Cake
I have a thing for kitchen tools. I really like them. Garlic presses, zesters, kitchen scissors, measuring cups... In fact, for my birthday and Christmas, I usually get some kind of kitchen tool as a gift from my family. Some gadgets you have in a drawer and never use. They are not worth the space … Continue reading The End of the Pits
Today is my dad's 70th Birthday! Hard to believe…how could it be? He’s so young- hardly a gray hair on his head. I am glad to celebrate him. Our family met together to celebrate with Mexican food (his favorite), cake and gifts! My dad is more of a food person than a dessert person, but honestly, in … Continue reading A Cake Like My Dad
Too bad this isn't a scratch and sniff photo My amazing husband surprised me today with a birthday cake that he made! Not only a birthday cake- but a made-from-scratch Sour Cream Pound Cake with Caramel Icing. He said he went onto Cup-A Cup-A and printed off the recipe and went for it! Can you … Continue reading A Delicious Birthday Surprise
Asher's MLK illustration a few years ago On Monday we will celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, junior. I don't recall knowing much about him until I was in social work graduate school and began to learn of the man of integrity that he was, and the dedicated fight he … Continue reading Honoring Dr. King
December is such an odd month in my kitchen and in my culinary-mind. I am a college professor, so December is a wild month with the end of classes, grading papers, administering exams and then more grading.. all while celebrating Advent and Christmas gift buying and celebrating my son’s birthday and baking and gift making! … Continue reading Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe
This is a great cake. It is really simple, full of sugar and diced apples and screams “autumn”. This was the week to make it because David had already requested this for his “October Goody of the Month” and we went apple picking last weekend in East Tennessee. (Which is very fun although the farmer … Continue reading Fresh Apple Cake
It’s my 15th Wedding Anniversary. It’s hard to believe that we have been married 15 years, and yet, I can’t remember life without Dave. Our relationship has been an anchor in the midst of many joys, challenges, twists and turns of life. For our anniversary I have made a Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese … Continue reading A Red Velvet Relationship
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