• heading towards the finish line

    - - - - jump to recipe I don’t know where the month went. My husband and I have been shopping for a second-floor bath renovation, did an overnight getaway and had some neighbors over one afternoon to...

  • festive desserts

    - - - jump to recipe With New Year’s Eve fast approaching, you may want to prepare some festive holiday desserts. One that was a hit with my granddaughters was turning Biscoff cookies into candy Christmas...

  • winter recess

    - - jump to recipe Now that Santa has come and gone, what do you do to entertain young ones until winter recess is over. I know my granddaughters have seen Moana 2 twice, but perhaps, you’ll just have...

  • November roundup

    - - - - jump to recipe In one of our last CSA boxes, I had a small head of cabbage. I came across an interesting recipe on the “Smitten Kitchen” website for Roasted Cabbage with Walnuts and Parmesan....

  • last minute Thanksgiving ideas

    - - I’m a bit behind on Thanksgiving food ideas, but these suggestions are doable on short notice. As I had a bag of cranberries from our last Dreyer Farms CSA box, I opted for something different....

  • let's eat out

    - - - - - - - - - - Recently I had dinner with several friends and inevitably we talk about the cost of dining out. I began to mention various local restaurants that offer special dining options at affordable...