I just offered to give a cooki…

I just offered to give a cooking lesson to a neighbor: creme brulee. And I thought I was done volunteering for a while!

Baking with cake mixes and convenience products

I love the story of how Anne Byrn, author of “The Cake Mix Doctor” and many other such cookbooks, got her start doctoring cake mixes to give them a homemade taste without all the time of baking from scratch. I can remember reading an article about her in the Food section of the “Washington Post” [...]

My own baking experiments & results

Phew! I’m glad I made it through last week! I spent so much time in the kitchen baking and cooking for various community events that I thought it would NEVER end!

First, I made cupcakes as a way of saying “thank you” to all the families who helped me throughout the school year volunteering with [...]

Next up: Catering by Laura. N…

Next up: Catering by Laura. No one else volunteered to bring snacks for Grandparent’s Day at school. How sad for the kids! I’ll do it!

I need to troubleshoot my own …

I need to troubleshoot my own baking problem and blog about it, but I’m so busy volunteering this week I don’t have time!!

Taking my mom out to dinner fo…

Taking my mom out to dinner for Mother’s Day….since she always treats me every other time we visit! http://tinyurl.com/3epknj

"Nobody makes cookies lik…

"Nobody makes cookies like Grandma!" Is a refrain from a favorite kids’ book: "The Doorbell Rang." It’s true: I learned to bake from my mom!

Brought my family to my mom’s …

Brought my family to my mom’s house for Mother’s Day. She made chocolate chunk, white chocolate & pecan cookies–delicious!

Today is a rainy, dreary day–…

Today is a rainy, dreary day–the type where I crave my comfort food: Hard Times chili from D.C. Love the vegetarian Cinncinati style!

Made a really tasty dinner: Le…

Made a really tasty dinner: Lemon-Parmesan risotto with salmon & spinach, and roasted sweet potatoes & apples in orange-cinnamon glaze. mmm