I haven’t written in my blog for quite some time. To put it bluntly the last five years of my life have sucked. 2013 was just the sour icing on some horrible cake. But there were some good moments too; unfortunately, they were overshadowed by some pretty terrible times. Have you ever had someone ask […]
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Wow! That’s all I can say about the last three months. I’m still not completely ready to share what has been going on yet, but I will at some point. I personally only like to tell a story when I know there is going to be a happy ending. Since what has been going on […]
I haven’t written in my blog for so long, but I had a good reason. I took an almost 2 ½ week vacation to Mexico. I haven’t taken a real vacation for something approaching seven years. Since I felt 2+ weeks was a long time to be gone from work, I worked extra hard up […]
I mentioned in my February 6th post that I would share some photos of random recipes I’ve been making while taking a break from blogging about family recipes. I attempted to make these Baker’s Dozen yeast rolls—TWICE, from a recipe I found in a Taste of Home magazine publication. When my dough didn’t rise, I […]
Chili is one of those items I can’t recall ever using a recipe for, because every time I make it, I use whatever ingredients I have on hand. Ground beef is usually a given, as are canned tomatoes, but everything else varies. Sometimes I add beans, sometimes I don’t. When I was little, I didn’t […]
Marketing 101 – you really shouldn’t ignore your blog. Yet I’ve done just that. I will try to be better. It really is a commitment, though, isn’t it, hard to fit in around a full-time job and a personal life? I’ve still been cooking on a regular basis (I guess one has to if one […]
My last blog entry was about the world’s best meatballs. I thought it only fitting that I follow that up with a recipe for the world’s best cheesecake. This is a recipe I got from a former neighbor of mine and former Minnesota Secretary of State and current District 16B Minnesota State Representative Mary Kiffmeyer. […]
The whole purpose of this blog was to make all the family recipes passed down from my mom and grandmas with the intention of working my way through every recipe in my mom’s recipe box. However, I have been making a lot of non-family recipes recently and kind of got off track. Today’s recipe is […]
My boss said there’s a saying that every good recipe starts with the words: “Take a stick of butter…” Isn’t that that truth! The same evening that I made Cleta Bailey’s Toffee Squares, I also decided to try this recipe for Pumpkin Seed Toffee that I found on the Taste of Home website. This required […]
I haven’t posted for awhile. I’ve still been cooking and baking up a storm. I just haven’t taken the time to write about it. At work, we do an auction every year where the proceeds go to a charitable organization Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless. One of the things my unit offers […]
