8 Things You Can Do to Start 2013 off Right
Do you remember when you were a kid and your parent’s took you shopping for school supplies for the new school year? I couldn’t wait to go buy new notebooks, crayons, and pencils. I could have used my crayons and notebooks from the previous year but I didn’t. Do you know why? I wanted to start my new school year with a clean ...
The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2012
I love me some cookies. When I heard about The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap I couldn’t join fast enough. I’ve been on a diet weight reduction and lifestyle change plan for the past 5 weeks so I’ve been dreaming about chocolate chip cookies and sour cream and onion potato chips. You may call it self sabotage, ...
Soul Food Sunday – Southern Sweet Potato Pie
Every holiday I can remember growing up involved a homemade sweet potato pie with lots of cinnamon and nutmeg. No we didn’t eat pumpkin pie – it was sweet potato all the way for our household. Before I moved away from home, there were a handful of dishes that my mom made me master- fried chicken, ...
Green Tomato Crostada
Sometimes I see a recipe that I just have to try because it sounds completely amazing. I heard about this recipe on KCRW’s Good Food podcast. Evan Kleiman is a pie a junkie like me and every year she does a Pie a Day Contest. She even has a Pie a Day App. She did an ...
Italian Nachos
Last weekend I had a great “away trip” with my church choir. We took a bus to Cleveland to support one of our young ministers who was going up there to preach at his home church. He’s incredibly talented and we all love him to death so it was worth the 9 or 10 hours we spent on ...
A Nostalgia Moment
This week we had a bake sale at work to benefit a charity that one of my coworkers supports. There’s a group of us that like to bake so she always recruits us to make baked goods to donate for the sale. This time I decided to make peanut butter fudge, but not just any ...
Blueberries and Cream Oatmeal
Work has been crazy the past few weeks. I worked on a special project for two weeks which pretty much took me completely out of pocket. It was like being sequestered – it was great. Having the opportunity to concentrate on one thing for a few weeks doesn’t happen very often in my line of work. It ...
