Happy New Year, all! As with every holiday, I feel obligated to share some music with you. :) For New Year's Eve, "Auld Lang Syne" just...

Day 6 of the 12 Cookies of Christmas My signature dessert recipe and my very first blog post was Chocolate Cherry Almond Biscotti. That...

Day 5 of The 12 Cookies of Christmas This is always the first cookie I grab from a Christmas cookie tray. No matter how interesting the...

Day 4 of The 12 Cookies of Christmas Snowballs, Russian Teacakes, Pecan Crescents... Whatever you call them and however you shape them,...

Day 3 of The 12 Cookies of Christmas These Coconut Jam Drops were new to me last year. I spotted them in King Arthur Flour's Sift...

Hope you all had a lovely holiday! I don't know about you, but I always feel a bit like a lost little lamb after Christmas Day. No more...

At Christmastime, I think we can get a bit stuck on popular flavors like peppermint chocolate or gingerbread or sugar cookie, which of...

For Day 15 of #30DaysThankful, I am grateful for new recipes. In this blog post, I'm reviewing my favorite fall recipes that I have made...

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme... :) These Simon & Garfunkel-inspired biscuits are crispy golden on the outside, crumbly tender on...

For Day 5 of #30DaysThankful, I'd like express some appreciation for garden produce, and in particular, rhubarb! It is so nice to be able...

It's no secret that I love sweets, and just because I've surpassed trick-or-treating age doesn't mean I've stopped the tradition of candy...

Lessons from Celery Patience On the seed packet, it claims that celery requires 120+ days to grow. That's over four months, a third of a...

The holidays are approaching fast; first Halloween, followed all too quickly by Thanksgiving and Christmas. When things start to get...

To celebrate the long-awaited Season 4 Premiere of Poldark, I planned an extravagant Poldark Palooza! A special evening of Cornish fare,...

This year, it seems that many, including myself, are jumping on pumpkin spice bandwagon early. At the moment, there are 4 cans of...

My family has been making these sandwiches every summer for at least 10 years. Similar to ratatouille, it uses some of the best garden...

Instead of making one large cake, I went for 6 mini-bundts and a half-height 10" bundt. I have this lovely Nordic Ware Cakelet pan that...

Ratatouille is one of the best summer dishes because it includes so many fresh garden ingredients: tomato, zucchini, peppers, onions, and...

The other day, I wanted to use up some semi-sweet and white chocolate chips we had sitting around, and cookies seemed like the best...

I've made this terrific summer dessert for the past 3 years, and it's a winner every time. What began as a plain, old sheet cake has...