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Let me make this emphatic disclaimer, from the outset. THIS is decadently creamy, richly delicious and soul-satisfying, once-in-a-blue-moon dessert. It is NOT what we eat everyday, (but, oh Baby, you will be tempted. :) ) and no one is more aware than myself, that it has no redeeming health properties, whatsoever. Please don’t send me [...]
Yay!!! I’m very excited to have been selected as one of 15 finalists in the Pompeian “Change Your Oil” Recipe Contest! I submitted our family’s favorite Chocolate Cake Recipe and substituted Pompeian Grape Seed Oil for the butter. It worked like a dream and the cake is over-the-top fantastic! Now, that the wonderful folks at [...]
.It’s been a grey sort of day, one of those fall days where the wind and the sky let you know that it truly IS about to be winter. On days like these, if I can’t just curl up in a blanket for a nap with a good book, then I bake. The oven warms [...]
Thursday night is Grandkids Night. No matter what other hubbub and chaos are happening the rest of the week, I know that Thursday night is just going to be smiles, hugs, fun and laughter and I never get tired of it. I love having this established tradition and feel so blessed to have the grandchildren [...]
Have you ever eaten Red Velvet Cake? Or baked one? As a Midwestern girl, who has been baking for more than 40 years, you would think that I would have run across one. But yesterday, I baked, and tasted, my very first. I read websites and recipes that claimed Red Velvet Cake for “the south”, [...]
I wanted to step outside the beverage category when I created my second recipe for International Delights and I had a pretty good idea what I was going to try, but even I didn’t realize how fabulously this would turn out. As you know, we’re a hard-core chocolate cake kinda family and my go-to, favorite [...]
Summers are pretty hectic at our house and lots of activity usually means the budget is pretty much stretched to its limits. Finding the time and the cash to just have a quiet evening together is a huge premium, for my husband and I, so a fun date night, at home, is the perfect way [...]