Our well appreciated thornless blackberry bush is producing ripe fruit now. This is it’s 2nd year since we stole it from an alley way where it was forgotten and buried under weeds behind our crappy rental house. This time last year (the first year it fruited) Miss Everly enjoyed gobbling up every single ripe berry...

We enjoyed this recipe last week after a long chicken pot pie hiatus. For some reason it fell out of recipe rotation but I resurrected it and am so glad I did! This recipe can either be done with a whole chicken or with cut chicken portions depending on what you have on hand an...

Tomorrow is N’s big 30 birthday. In years past I’ve made red velvet cake, orange crush cake, regular chocolate cake, cupcakes and so on. I ask him weeks before what he wants baked. It’s sort of a fun challenge for me and it gives him a chance to get exactly what HE wants for once....

In between Everly’s naps and feedings I have begun the day long process that is from scratch cinnamon roll baking. I’ve been craving them for weeks and also want to give some away as a thank you to our neighbors. N might be having a work luncheon or something this week, so he can take...

Twittermoms wants to know about our favorite “Drinks of the Season”. When I think of the holiday season and drinks only two come to mind, here they are: Hot Toddy This is a drink recipe perfect for my mother and mother in law. You see my mom loves brandy and my MIL loves tea and...

If you are reading N’s blog you probably already know about the veggi garden in our backyard. It’s a good little garden with lots of yummy stuff. We are stoked to have a much longer growing season here, we can grow more fun stuff now. We have things like corn, zucchini, tomato, peppers, basil, lettuce,...

Yeah, so thanks to Witchypoo‘s talks of birthday cake and wine I was having my own cake craving yesterday. She recommended I search for the 5 min cake in a mug recipe for some instant chocolate goodness and I found it here. Calls for tablespoons of sugar, flour (specifically cake flour), cocoa powder, milk, oil...

I got some DOLE canned fruit and notification of a contest DOLE is running right now, the DOLE Make me a Chef Essay Contest. It runs from March 16 through May 8 and all you have to do is write a 200 word or less essay on “How DOLE Canned Fruit is part of your...

I made a turkey pot pie from scratch yesterday and was pretty pleased with the pie crust recipe so I wanted to share it here on the blog. I searched high and low for a good from scratch pot pie recipe and kept coming across the call for “crescent rolls” as the “pie crust”. To...

Earlier in the week N wanted to make up a batch of ladyfingers. The goal was to make homemade Tiramisu, one of his favorite desserts but you need ladyfingers to make it. We searched high and low for ladyfingers in the stores last weekend, nobody sells them. Being the baker that I am I suggest that...