A few weeks ago, I wrote a post from the pool deck of the Carnival Dream. You may remember this post, or, you may be new here and didn’t know I am a spoiled brat. You see, I was hosted by Carnival to experience the Dream with my family, and what an experience it was. […]
I’m not sure how this even happened, but once again, I am judging the cake competition at Pearisburg’s Festival in the Park. That’s all going down this Saturday, June 15, at 10am. Hopefully some of you readers are local and will come out for the contest (does anyone local other than my mom read my […]
I am a huge fan of chicken salad, especially on a croissant. The buttery, flaky bread paired with the creamy chicken salad? Die. Add in some crunch, from walnuts and celery, and some chew, from raisins? Winning combination. A few months ago I went to a local bakery where they make an incredible chicken salad, […]
I can’t help it…I still love popovers. It’s been six months or more since the end of my Popover Project (over 40 different recipes in a year), and yet…I still love them. Jon and Seven request them nearly every weekend, despite them both knowing that I dislike making the same recipe more than once. And […]
Remember a few weeks ago when I was contacted by Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Kraft to do a little project? You don’t? No big deal…I’ll fill you in. Philly wants me to eat some really good stuff, all summer long. Whaaa? True. It’s called The Hundred Days of Delight, and the premise is simple…every day […]
Not every dish must be a Main Dish. But…every dish should be a Great Dish. I was contacted by Reser’s to create a potato salad recipe…and this was the result! Roasted Potato Salad with Tomatoes & Basil is so fresh and flavorful, it would be the perfect side to chicken, pork, or beef. The addition […]
You know what sucks? Vacuuming. Hahaha. Couldn’t help it – it’s the joke that keeps on joking, lame as it ever was. But – I do detest vacuuming. I’m not sure why, because for whatever reason, you can clean the rest of the house for three hours, but it takes only a few minutes of […]
I get asked to develop recipes, pretty much every day. I know that shocks people that know me, er, well, knew me, as only five years ago, I could barely boil water. And now, I get paid to think up ways to prepare pie. Or tarts, in this case. White Chocolate and Apple Tarts. Musselmann’s […]
This is a follow up post to the first Pennington Smart Feed sponsored post I wrote a few weeks ago, as I thought you may want to see the results of what we did! (Plus, I just needed to brag on Jon a little – he spent the entire three day weekend in the garden […]
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Comfort and Harmony for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. When I had Seven, what feels like yesterday but was actually nearly 6 years ago (gasp), I swore I wasn’t going to buy into all of the different products out there that supposedly made […]
I am in love with mini Weck jars. I can’t help it…they are adorable, and who wouldn’t want to eat a dessert out of one? I mean, really…imagine you are at a fun Sunday Brunch, and the hostess delivers out a tray of these guys? Tell me you wouldn’t want to dig right in? I […]
Remember the old me? The girl who made cakes day in and day out? That girl? Well, I just can’t do them all the time anymore. The blog is my business now, the business that pays my bills. I develop recipes for several companies, I write cookbooks (gosh, that’s a process), I write for a […]