Red, White and BLUE Food

When I was growing up my sous-chef dish-washing mom told me repeatedly that “blue” isn’t for food.  Luscious red strawberries are fine, white angel food cake is beautiful, blue frosting on a child’s birthday cake – utter nonsense! That was long before Superman and his blue cape showed up on little boy’s cakes. Or how … Read more

Top Three Most Viewed Recipes

I have a lot of new subscribers to My Daily Bread Body and Soul.  What a blessing!  That makes this a great time to  take a few weeks and highlight some of my favorite recipes posted over the past 4 years. Bacon Wrapped Cream Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast has taken the lead with the latest … Read more

Happy 4th Blogiversary Cake Pops and Flops

I began writing this blog four years ago today.  I love looking back and thinking about this road paved with sugar and spice and scripture and blessings. At a recent luncheon with girlfriends my friend said “everything you bake looks so good and so perfect!”  I thought for a moment and then had to grin … Read more

Tiramisu Cheesecake, Mangia bene, vivi felice

I have a friend who was in the hospital the week before Easter.  She and her husband always have the family gather at their house for holidays and she was telling me that this year she wasn’t going to be up to having a big Easter dinner.  “I did ask my daughter to please try … Read more

A Half Truth

Driving into town last week I read this  sign in a local church yard.  A half truth, a “little white lie”, a twist of truth … is still a whole lie.   This has bounced around in my head all through the week, not to mention the many times I drove that road in to town … Read more

Maundy Thursday

Today is Maundy Thursday.   It is the Christian holy day, falling on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the Maundy and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles as described in the Canonical gospels. “And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we … Read more