Happy Holidays everyone! Things have been simply crazy this year – some good some not good – such is life. Am hoping to post some newer stuff – as always delicious – soon. I recently had to get a new phone – my blackberry dated back to the Jurassic era and was just not working...

As we all move into the holiday season, many of us will be gearing up to do quite a lot of baking and then cooking on Thanksgiving and the end of year holiday feasts. One of the things I love about this time is cooking with pumpkin and also the traditional spices such as cinnamon,...

A fact of life with kids and school these days – Snack Must Be Provided For Snack Time. Week after week I have to find a snack that the kids will eat but which is not nasty like cheezits or chips or other sorts of candy. Sometimes they go in with cheese, other times homemade...

I have been experimenting with the dehydrator and blending, mostly modestly sweet to savory things. Today's raw food recipe is more about the sweet. These date heavy cookies should not be eaten every day unless you are trying to gain...

(Don’t forget to enter Lou Manna’s “Best Looking Food of 2009 contest” to win everything you could possibly need for food photography! See my previous post for details. Contest ends February 16th, 2009) We made the usual sugar cookies this year but I do not have any photos, was so dark at the time and,...

Those of you surfing here from Darren Rowse‘s blog – ProBlogger and specifically about my prize for the Birthday Bash, you have come to the right place! My prize is both eye candy and mouth candy! If you win, you will receive: a signed 8×10 inch print of the peppermint marshmallow puff pastry cookie you...

(Chocolate Coconut Hedgie Cookies) I am a super bad mom, I really am. Once the caffeine hit the system this morning I jumped up and baked these cookies (the dough was in the fridge overnight). The bad part is that we essentially had these for breakfast. We are going to have a second course of...

(This is my latest article for The Spirit World, a blog in the Well Fed Network family) To me, Valentine’s Day is vibrant red and cinnamon flavored. Without that bright and bracing flavor, I have not really DONE Valentine’s Day. As such, I feel that anything presented as Valentine’s specific should be dark red and...

As you know from reading some of my previous posts (here), I live in a super tiny village called Wales in central Massachusetts USA. We do not live the fast life here; we enjoy the quiet and solitude of the woods. One of the things I like about the people who live in this region...

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have a new cookbook called “Tried and True Cookies”, recipes from AllRecipes.com contributors. There are quite a few of the old home favorites and several iterations of various types of cookie to choose from. As I was thumbing through the book, I saw a group for lemon...