Today’s post is not so much about the recipe but more the post-Mother’s Day reflection. Although I do give you a good peanut butter cookie recipe at the end! Today’s post is about the footprints we make in each others lives. A while back on one of my posts about my grand kids, someone commented [...]

I’m not Irish…I don’t even own one piece of green clothing but I sure have fun with the holiday! When my girls were little toddlers, I would wake them up in the morning in my Irish brogue (well, my Polish Slovak Irish brogue)… and would talk to them all day in my brogue… I would [...]

This post is not about fancy recipes and exotic cooking… There’s plenty out there in the last few days from other bloggers on the perfect meal and dessert for Valentine’s Day. This post is about a perfect Valentine. We had the joy of watching our 4 year old twins this weekend and I had the [...]

What has a pound of butter… a pound of sugar… decadent chocolate… and pecans? Texas Sheet Cake! This recipe is not for the faint of heart…nor the faint of spirit. You won’t be able to resist once you see the goey-ness and smell the chocolate. One bite leads to one piece of cake which leads [...]

Impromptu. Impromptu dessert. Impromptu blog post. It was Saturday afternoon and we had plans with friends for an early dinner. I’m standing in the produce aisle with Hubby and said “Hey, let’s do dessert at our house!” He certainly didn’t argue with that and when I asked what should I make, he pointed to the [...]

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts. – James Beard It’s soup night. I can’t just eat soup. I need a sandwich or a good bread to go with it. Today I went to the store for my soup ingredients and browsed [...]

I bring you this recipe as a very humble woman. These are my VERY favorite cookie of the season… an old Slovenian recipe of my Mom’s… Kolachy. Kolachy are the JEWELS of Christmas cookies. Flaky cream cheese crust filled with jam and preserves….apricot, pineapple and raspberry. There’s even a homemade nut filling for you nut [...]

This post is dedicated to my two sisters for whom I’ve made these nut rolls to celebrate one more Christmas together with our Mom. I don’t say enough how much I appreciate you. I may have mentioned this before in my posts that my Mother suffers from dementia. My Dad, my sisters and I have [...]

It’s Thanksgiving Eve and I had all the best intentions of sharing some of my favorite holiday recipes with you. Sometimes life hands you a curve ball and after all these years, I have learned to go with the flow and not beat myself up over what I could have done or should have done… [...]

I don’t have a Grandma Ople. I don’t even know who Grandma Ople is…but apparently she makes a hell of a pie! You see, this morning I went out searching for the “perfect” apple pie. I like to do that…surf the web, visiting some of my favorite foodie sites while discovering new ones…all boasting to [...]