We eat chicken. A lot of chicken. Chicken is my favorite meat. My sous-chef dish-washing mom loves to recount the story that when I was growing up I only ate chicken drumsticks and an occasional hamburger, when it came to meat. I don’t recall being that picky, but who am I to question mom? My … Read more
Last year I saw a post from Brown Eyed Baker for these Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake bars. I printed out the recipe and added to my “to-bake” and “to-make” pile of recipes. It has surfaced several times in the past 18 months but something else always caught my eye. But this August my youngest son Chris, … Read more
This month our Tuesdays With Dorie baking group decided to bake two tarts, one sweet and one savory, from the cookbook Baking With Julia. Starting with this sweet Baked Yogurt Tart, most of the group baked and posted their results on July 2. You can find links to those posts right HERE. I baked mine … Read more
With the 4th of July celebration sneaking up on us this week I have seen all kinds of yummy and sometimes really cute menu items. From the website Real Women of Philadelphia comes these cute little marshmallow pops that feature a Tub of SNACK DELIGHTS Dark Chocolate. Occasionally I post recipes on this site and … Read more
Do you ever have bananas that look like these? I over-shot bananas on my shopping list and ended up with 3 1/2 rather ripe ones I couldn’t get the Chief nor my Sous-Chef Dish-Washing mom interested in eating! 🙂 I ran through the gambit of banana nut bread, or crunchy pecan banana muffins, and then … Read more
In the early 1980’s I bought my first Cuisinart Food Processor. It was love at first bite. The first thing I made was bread. I continued to use it to make bread for 16 years. Along with chopping, mixing, stirring hundreds of other tasty treats. In 1996 I burned up the motor … making a … Read more