“Don’t you have a blog to tend to?” Wink asked in a recent thread on the OT . I forget what exactly I had done to annoy her, but I find tha...

So how hard could it be, I ask myself. The first day of the big Opera Cake Project went well , with even the buttercream frosting that sta...

Remember my post about opera cake ? The one in which I reminded myself that people go to school to learn to make cakes like that and then ...

I seem to have developed an unexpected streak of energy in recent weeks. It’s been a little over two years since I retired, and I never fo...

It has been two years since I retired, and I am finally getting myself a schedule. Okay, it is true, I have been on an exercise schedule o...

One of the things that makes traveling in Britain so tricky for the US visitor is the language difference. One quickly gets used to callin...

We've been trying to use up all the leftovers in the refrigerator this week. John made a cake over the weekend, so among the leftovers...

John and I recently had the chance to shop at one of those big warehouse grocery stores that usually require you to be a member before the...

I’m waiting for some butter that was in the freezer to soften so that I can bake Root Beer Float Cookies  for the St. Anonymous UMW spring...

When my husband and I first married, we either spent Easter with his mother or she came to our house for Easter. My mother-in-law’s favori...

A recipe for hard “boiled” eggs , which are actually baked in the oven, is making the rounds of Pinterest these days. With Easter coming u...

For the last half dozen years or so, we’ve been eating Thanksgiving dinner at the house of a friend. Christmas we spend at John’s sister’s...

Sunday morning I went to the emergency room. It wasn’t anything life or death. I had sliced my finger the day before while making lunch. (...

I used to love to bake. I learned to bake bread when I was in graduate school, and home-baked bread was often the only bread I could affor...

Well, it did this morning, anyway. Now it smells more like the lentil soup I’ve been cooking, but when I woke up this morning around eight...

As I have written before , I hate to serve leftovers by just heating them up and putting them on a plate. I know, that's the time savi...

This morning I  ran errands. On my way home from the two major errands I remembered I needed bay leaves and chicken stock for tonight's ...

Yesterday I actually cooked the beef brisket that I blogged about last week . After a moment of sticker shock at the grocery store, I found ...

One of the cooking shows I love to watch is Chef  Anne Burrell's Secrets of a Restaurant Chef .   I love watching it because of Anne Bur...