A Little From the Middle

For Father’s Day I made one of the yummiest chocolate sheet cakes.  I can say that, because it’s not my recipe.  It is from scratch, but it doesn’t take tons of work.  It had been a long time since I had made it (I don’t know why and it won’t be a long time before I [...]

It’s a CELEBRATION!!

May 15th – the BEST holiday ever!  Today is National Chocolate Chip Day
(YES! I love these people!) 
But what to make?!  Traditional Chocolate Chip Cookies?  Oh, SO good.  Especially right out of the oven. 
Or Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins.  Oh, MY GOODNESS.  I cheat (Shhh…) .  I make them from a mix and they are SO YUMMY!
Maybe Magic [...]

What Does Spring Taste Like?

Strawberries are one the most wonderful gifts we have ever been given.  Fresh out of the box with nothing else added they taste like sunshine, spring and happiness bursting in each sweet bite. 
But that’s just the beginning!  There’s strawberry shortcake (which I prefer with pound cake as the base), strawberry smoothies, strawberry jam, chocolate covered [...]

I Found Heaven….

at Coldstone Creamery. 
I love ice cream. I adore chocolate and raspberry together.
One recent wednesday, out on date, Kevin and I stopped in for some ice cream (for dinner no less – YES!)  Oh my goodness, they had “Chocolate Raspberry Truffle” ice cream.  This may not be earth shattering to you, but it [...]

Quick and Easy Taco Lasagna

Every now and then I like to try a new recipe. Sometimes I’ll actually buy one of those little cookbooks in the checkout isle and see if there is something the family will like. Sometimes I get lucky. This last week we found a winner. Everyone in the family loved this dish.

This recipe comes from [...]

When the tough gets going…

the tough find chocolate!  Good chocolate.  What is it about chocolate that goes straight to your head from the first bite? I don’t know, but here are some of my favorites – and one I saw today that I just KNOW would be a favorite if I ever tasted it.

 
This is my all time favorite [...]

See! I can follow a recipe!

 
I knew as soon as I saw the recipe for Kristy’s Fruit Tarts on Light Refreshments Served that I had to make them.  The picture above is of the ones I made for our Primary Teachers today.  They have a lightly sweetened shortbread type of “crust”.  The filling reminds me of cream cheese fruit dip.  And, [...]

Chocolate Chip Cookie Crisps??

This has me absolutely baffled.  I’m not the greatest cook in the world but honestly, I can follow a recipe.   All the ingredients are in there (though Kevin is sure I have to have missed something).  It is humid and warm today, but still?  Enough to have cookies turn out as thin as crackers?
I just don’t [...]

Local Restaurant Character

I’m a bit of an adventurous eater.  I like sushi (thanks to the same friend who quilted all but a teeny speck on G’s quilt).  I have a favorite place to eat Sushi here where I live so I’m good to go on that.  Interestingly enough – there are more sushi places than you can [...]