A Free Wine Encyclopedia!As far back as I can remember, I have always loved to eat cake. I found it much more interesting than ice cream, and rightly so! Cake is at the center of almost any important celebration. Birthdays, weddings, showers, anniversaries, and holidays…could you imagine them without cake? Usually cakes are decorated according to the occasion…. read more »
The other day, while waiting for a doctors appointment, I flipped through a “Better Homes and Gardens” magazine. Nothing quite piqued my interest and I was just about to trade it in for an enticing copy of “People” when I came across an ad for a refrigerator. I became transfixed. It wasn’t the sleek design… read more »
The other day my cousin told me about a wonderful dinner she’d had at a friend’s. “It was French Provincial,” she enthusiastically exclaimed. She then excitedly went into detail about what was served. “What was the occasion?”, I asked curiously. (It seemed like quite a luxurious and romantic affair.) “Book club,” she simply replied. In… read more »
I love throwing parties, and the bigger, the better. I always start with a theme of some kind, and then go from there. With summer here, I’ll be entertaining a lot, and more important than anything, I need to be organized. I am a list-maker. The first thing I do when I decide to host… read more »
May is one of my favorite months. My wedding anniversary is in May, my daughter’s birthday and Mother’s Day (a new favorite holiday of mine). For many years Mother’s Day meant flowers picked from the next door neighbor’s garden, tied together with a battered hair ribbon and tenderly given to my very appreciative mother. As… read more »
Spring is here! I love this time of year so much. Everything seems so fresh and alive. The garden is full of tulips and daffodils, summer is just around the corner, and “love” is in the air! With Easter and Passover just around the corner, too, cooks are busy planning their holiday menus. Brunch seems… read more »
Last month my husband and I went out to dinner for his birthday. It was a cold and rainy night, and even after sitting down in the warm and comfortable restaurant, I was freezing. “Are you sure you want to keep your coat on?”, my husband asked. Not only did I want to keep my… read more »
Let’s face it, every cook has at least a few culinary items they are downright afraid to try to make. I always had a fear of making homemade danish pastry, and rightly so! Never will I forget the disaster of that enterprise. Making danish pastry is a difficult process, a skill that requires a thorough… read more »
Where has summer gone? Being a busy mom of two means no time off. My days were full of swimming lessons and lemonade stands; summer school and pool parties; beach trips and barbeques. Not to mention a week long trip to Lake Arrowhead squeezed in. My son and daughters summer social calendar kept me very… read more »
Remember the story of the King who promised his daughter in marriage to the young man who would create a dish for him that was both hot and cold at the same time? Voila, the winner created the hot fudge sundae and married the princess. So goes the tale. Water ices were known in the… read more »