You know the drill you try to limit it to six for each person and then 4 of your dozen crack while boiling, 1 leaks out and makes a mess all over all the other eggs, you send your hubby to the store on Easter Saturday, possibly THE BIGGEST nightmare day ever… (other than when…
Desserts
Jane’s Poor Man’s Toffee
My next door neighbor Jane used to make up huge platters of yummies on the holidays and then bring it to our house….and these things are just totally addictive and relatively easy to make Mock Salted Caramel Toffee with Chocolate Made with crackers, home made toffee, nuts and chocolate. I’ve also seen this called “Christmas…
Iconic Regional Foods + Recipes
I belong to a very large worldwide foodie group on Facebook called “The Cook’s Cook” with over 80,000 people participating. Every week or so there will be a debate about the best pizza or chili and people are quite passionate about why Texas Chili is the only “real ” chili because it has no beans…
101 Halloween Recipe & Craft Explosion
Did you know that Halloween is the 2nd most decorated holiday of the year? Christmas, of course, being the MOST decorated. I personally don’t do a whole bunch of Halloween decorations now that my kids are grown and prefer to spend my money and crafting time on Fall decor but lots of people are so…
Elaine’s Apple Cranberry Pie Recipe
Just look at this beautiful pie! My cousin Elaine and I learned lots of old fashioned ways to cook from our Ukrainian Grandmother and have many shared memories of rolling out and cutting egg noodles for her chicken noodle soup with cinnamon ( I still put that in mine) and her most amazing recipe for happiness,…