This cookie was born because although I love a good peanut butter cookie , I find it well… a little boring. What’s better than peanut butter in a cookie? How about chocolate chips, caramel, and some pretzels? That’s. what’s. up! A few months ago my […]
I recently made both of these chocolate strawberry cakes. One for my daughter’s 18th birthday. The other for my friend who was ready to give birth to her second child and needed one last girls night out before she exploded. Or maybe that was me […]
“Hola! Como estas? “Muy bien gracias. Y tu?” That’s about the extent of my Spanish speaking skills from 4 years of high school Spanish 20 some odd years ago. Seems a life time ago. Well, I may not be able to speak Spanish muy bien, […]
When life hands you over ripened bananas, make banana bread. Can’t you just smell it? No? Come a little closer. Careful. It’s hot. Okay, obviously you can’t actually smell it, but trust me, it smelled amazing. This was tonight’s product of over ripened bananas sitting […]
What’s more Italian than homemade meatballs and sauce? Homemade meatballs and sauce is the ultimate comfort food. If I don’t have it for a while I begin to crave it something awful. When my kids were little, Sunday was usually a consistent pasta day with […]
The Rubik’s Fruit Cube. Have you seen it? More importantly, can you solve it? It’s beautiful! It’s a watermelon, kiwi, and feta cheese appetizer. I’ve been been pulling my hair out trying to google where this originated. I ran into it on a facebook page […]
These orange creamsicle cupcakes brought back memories of me as a child chasing down the ice cream truck to get an Orange Creamsicle. Ohhhh, the nostalgia of ripping open the wrapper on a hot summer day and biting into the cool creamy vanilla ice cream […]
Hydrangea Rose cake and matching cupcakes. Flavor you ask? Pink Lemonade with Raspberry preserves filling and pink lemonade butter cream frosting. Update: 07/17/11. Finally, I’m posting the tutorial on the cake and cupcakes. I had this almost typed and posted once, and it disappeared into […]
Lemon blueberry cupcakes are the perfect spring & summer treat. Layered with a lemon cream cheese frosting sure to make you fall in love with this cupcake. Fruit is synonymous with summer. Don’t you think? On a sweltering hot summer day it’s the perfect relief […]
Ok. How cuuuute are these? Not just because I made them. Because frankly, I found the idea while perusing cupcakes online. That’s what I do in my spare time. Some people social network, some read, some Pinterest, I spend hours upon hours looking for new […]
I live in sunny South Florida. I'm a middle-aged 50 something mom of 2 grown kids and nana to a beautiful granddaughter. I love making food from my Pennsylvania Dutch heritage and the regional foods I grew up eating in the Midwest, specifically in the Northeast Ohio Mahoning Valley and Trumbull County area. I love food, cocktails, and social media. In no particular order. To learn more, visit my About page.