Christmas giving on my mind part 2! Here is #3 of my Christmas gift basket list. Home-assembled Herbal bread mixes- individually portioned and packaged for bread machines. (just add fluids) There are three standard bread machine sizes: Small 1lbs, medium 11/2lbs, and large 2lbs. You will need to find out what size the “gift-receiver” has. I’ve included [...]

        Love gourmet food but don’t have time to fuss with the gourmet process? I hear ya! I am so tired sometimes I almost, that is almost, feel too tired to eat – let alone prepare a gourmet meal. I certainly don’t think eating fast food or a bowl of cereal is [...]

Cheesy and Creamy, So, So, So Good…  When my kids were growing up I never seemed to know how many to make dinner for. There were always a couple of extra “hollow-legs-syndromed” teens about. This was my salvation dinner.

 So, you’re a blogger. Or you work at home in some other way. Does that mean you have to eat the traditional nerd’s meal of caffeine and whatever munchy food is close by? Hardly. There’s nothing more reassuring on a busy day than knowing that a good dinner is cooking itself while you’re busy with [...]

it’s easy to educate yourself about tea, and then it’s a short step to full-fledged tea snob. People do it with wine, why not tea? Tea is experiencing a revival in the west, but it has been a popular beverage world-wide for thousands of years. Most of the tea we drink in the western hemisphere [...]

While I was walking along Bleecker St earlier this week (not today, obviously, since it was raining like crazy, and I would be a fool to be out in that), I passed a bakery that had the most delicious looking cakes in the window – including the above cake, decorated to look like a sunflower.

Oh, how I love vintage Tupperware. I have vintage Tupperware radar when we go to sales barns, or my favorite thrift shop. Much to my beloveds chagrin. We have more space devoted in the cabinets to the little plastic darlings than is probably healthy. We have gelatin molds, veggie steamers, containers of all shapes and [...]