What a wonderful weekend we had! On Saturday my sister-in-law brought my nieces up for a visit and we relaxed and caught up and played with the girls. The girls helped me make chocolate with white chip cookies and we ended the evening going out to a nice dinner. It was very relaxing and just …
I’m all ready to head back to NY for Thanksgiving! Pies are done (8 pies!), dog is clean – finally! truck is almost packed and just a little work left to do. Spent the morning making pies, I had an extra crust and extra chocolate than planned so this year I did.. 2 lemon meringue …
I made a little treat Sunday – inspired by this blog: http://www.bakerella.com/a-valentines-day-gift-box-of%E2%80%A6/. My version is definitely different, first i went with a pink box instead of red to cut down on the food coloring since I didn’t have any no-flavor red coloring and too much red can be bitter. Second I used chocolate cake and …
I can’t believe it’s only Saturday night, we’ve had such a great weekend already. Of course having a cold isn’t great but it’s mostly an annoyance at this point, making me sniffly and tired. Ryan’s parents came out to visit Friday night we had dinner, watched movies, baked some cookies and relaxed this morning. After …
I quit work a little early today so I could get started on Thanksgiving baking! I’m supplying the pies for thanksgiving this year and it was quite an order to fill. I started with one apple pie (I have 3 total to make), then I made 2 lemon meringue and a chocolate (new recipe for …
In preparation for camping this weekend I decided to do some baking and with the numerous raspberries begging to be picked I decided to make up some muffins. I made blueberry and raspberry muffins. The mulberries were dwindling so I could only get a few and put them on top of the raspberry muffins but …
Strawberries are in season so in June I made up a cake – it’s a basic vanilla cake with a layer of strawberries in the center. The frosting is actually plain whipped cream. I made the strawberry center concoction with orange juice and it had a nice tang to it. This was a nice start …