I made dinner this week for a dear friend who had surgery. I actually made two of these so that my boys could try it too because I knew that they would love this and they did! The recipe comes from a blog called “Cents Less”. It was easy, quick and yummy which, as we … Continue reading
Here is Ken and Sonja’s official wedding cake – a topsy turvey cake with polka dots in Sonja’s wedding colors topped with adorable bride and groom dinosaurs! I think this cake came out really cute and was perfect for them! The cake is a brown sugar cake taken from the White Almond Sour Cream cake … Continue reading
Two of my cute friend’s got married on Saturday and the bride asked if we would make the wedding cake and a groom’s cake too. Since I work with them both in the movie biz, we decided to do a slate cake for the groom’s cake. The groom used to work for Nat Geo and … Continue reading
Dinner last night with the fam plus my nephew Wyett and my niece Amber and her family. I made spaghetti with my homemade sauce, a salad, some easy homemade rolls and this beautiful cake for dessert. It said it was a coffee cake but I just drizzled some frosting on it and it was good … Continue reading
Trying to use up the last of the Christmas ham. I haven’t tried this one yet but Bob said it was delicious. The recipe comes from a blog called “Dashing Dish”. soup: 4 cups chicken broth (or one 32 oz box) ( I used four 14.5 oz cans) 1 1/2 cups (12 oz) ham, diced … Continue reading
We celebrated Jaren’s (my son in law’s), birthday last night so I decided a special treat was in order so I experimented with these truffles and they came out great, so yummy and so easy! I used these Maple Syrup Cream Cookies that I found at Costco: and this recipe for “Easy Oreo Truffles” and … Continue reading
Happy New Year everyone! I kicked off the first day of 2015 with these beauties which are delicious by the way however, I would have liked a bit more white chocolate so when I make them again I think I will add some white chocolate chips to the brownie batter. The recipe comes from “Your … Continue reading
And the last recipe from Christmas, another dessert, it was good but not great, nothing earth shattering, just chocolate cake with mint chocolate on top, could have used another layer, like a ganache layer and then the candy on top but then you know me, the only thing better than chocolate, is more chocolate! The … Continue reading
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 59,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 22 sold-out performances for that many … Continue reading
I’m not really a pie lover or a pie maker but the Thanksgiving Maple Cream Pie went well so I decided to give this old fashioned Buttermilk Pie a try and was not disappointed! Bob said it best when he said it tastes like an old fashioned buttermilk doughnut, which it does. The recipe comes … Continue reading
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