My favorite dessert through the holiday season is cookies.  I start baking before Thanksgiving and don

What started out as a two week blogging break  (I was behind on several  projects)  turned into a two mont

It's been almost a month since my last post.  Once again I'm saying "Wherever does the time go?"  Between ne

January and February are comfort food months in my house.  It's the season for hearty soups and stews, roaste

Baking good bread has never been a talent that I possessed and I just accepted the fact that I didn't inherit

It wouldn't be Christmas for me without my traditional German Christmas cookies.  We always had them on Chri

I have so many great memories of homemade meals when I was young and the holiday season always makes me feel v

I associate certain foods with specific times of year and prune kuchen means Fall is here .  Italian prune p

  If  I'm addicted to anything in this life I would have to say its cookies.  I have posted more recipe

If you love apple fritters as much as we do you will be pulling baking ingredients out of your pantry as you r

I have tried several new recipes in the past few weeks that I haven't been thrilled with, and when that happen

This molded gazpacho salad is one of my favorite summer meals.  It has all the wonderful flavors of a classic

Life becomes very casual at my house during the summer.  Meals on the patio and days at the beach call for re

I have been MIA the past couple of weeks because I've been on a much needed vacation to the Oregon Coast.  We

We get a week or two of hot weather here in the Pacific NW, usually in August, but this year it's starting ear

  I have lived my whole life here in the Pacific Northwest.  My great grandmother was born in Portland i

I have tried dozens of cheesecake recipes over the years and my favorite is the recipe for the first one I eve

  If using a cake mix isn't your thing and you cringe at the thought of opening a can of fruit pie fillin

With summer just around the corner I'm looking for recipes that can be easily prepared and served on the pati

Desserts is the biggest recipe category on my blog and if I had to pick my top five favorite dessert reci

I'm disappointed by the photos of this ham casserole, but I was lucky to get them at all.  If my daughter had

Coconut has always been one of my favorite foods.  I love it in savory dishes and in the endless number of sw

  If you had tried to visit Wives with Knives in the last 5 days you would have been greeted by a notice

If you make a batch of granola from scratch I can almost guarantee that you will never buy that tasteless stor

   HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY and welcome to the seventh annual St. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl hosted by my f

  In 2008 I had never seen a food blog and didn't have a clue what they were.  Googling wasn't the obse

When I visited my Chicago daughter last summer I tried the most delicious deli salad made with giant white bea

    My mother bought very few prepared foods or package mixes when I was growing up.  It wasn't th

If you are thinking "Shrimp and chicken in the same chowder...not sure about that combo"  you are saying to y

My favorite recipes, and always the ones that are the most popular on my blog, are the old ones that date back

I L-O-V-E French pastries and can't walk by a patisserie in Paris without practically drooling at all the beau

I usually prepare prime rib for our Christmas dinner, but this year I decided to serve spiral cut glazed ham w

It's obvious from reading blog posts and talking to friends that I'm not the only one who is in shock that 20

I know that local exercise facilities will soon be packed with people sharing the same New Year's resolution

    We're getting down to the wire now and I still have several recipes I want to post before Christ

I don't like hard candy and hate candy that sticks to my teeth so, despite my fondness for peanuts, I would ne