Book Bites: Blue Ribbon Apple Pie

Book Bites: Blue Ribbon Apple Pie

The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living: A Novel by Louise Miller “When Olivia Rawlings—pastry chef extraordinaire for an exclusive Boston dinner club—sets not just her flambéed dessert but the entire building alight, she escapes to the most comforting...
Strawberry Hypocrite Pie

Strawberry Hypocrite Pie

Bet you are wondering what a hypocrite pie is, right?  Me, too.  I got this recipe from a friend at church, but didn’t really get an explanation of the “hypocrite” part. So Google was asked and here is what I found:  “It’s...
Easy Camping Granola Bars

Easy Camping Granola Bars

These easy-to-make and also easy-to-customize granola bars have become a family camping tradition! But we have them other times as well. It didn’t take long for this recipe to become an annual camping trip favorite.  Once I made it once, it was...
Niki’s Beans & Dawgs

Niki’s Beans & Dawgs

Here’s a throwback recipe to the early days of our first ever food blog.  Back when there were 14 of us, cooking and posting like crazy. Niki Lewis shared this recipe–one of her family’s favorites–and it received around 30K views! Wait,...
Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate Mousse

Over a year ago, I tore this recipe out of my September 2018 issue of Better Homes & Gardens Magazine.  I do that a lot.  Just tear recipes and good ideas or cool food photography out of magazines the FIRST time I go through them.  I am so far...