Posts Categorized: Recipes
Happy Friday! With Memorial Day upon us and the sort-of-official start to the summer season, I’m re-posting my recipe for dipped strawberries. Around here, strawberries are ripe for the picking…right now! This is an easy, quick way to dress up your strawberries in summer style. Red,White and Blue Strawberries Ingredients: 2 lbs of strawberries, washed and…
Sounds like a bad riddle, doesn’t it? For me, they were the Fab Triumvirate of items that kept me sane during the past two weeks, while I was speed-writing with a group of fellow first-draft writers. We were writing the “Emotion Draft” – a program put together by the multi-talented Rachel Funk Heller, who designed…
Merry Christmas season, everyone! Our holiday blog hop series is winding to a close, and I wanted to share one of my family’s favorite holiday dinners before we’re done: rib eye roast with currant gravy. It’s super-easy, and the house smells heavenly while it’s cooking. Holiday Rib-Eye Roast Ingredients For the roast: 4 lbs. well-trimmed…
In checking out some online sheet music for the 6th grade cellist in our family, I ran across the clip below that I wanted to share with you today. I love this guy’s enthusiasm, as well as his playing! (Of course, our young cellist pointed out that winter weather is very bad for a string…
Welcome to the next installment of Holiday Yum, our Holiday recipe blog hop series! For the entire schedule, click here. Today, I have a classic recipe from my childhood: butter spritz cookies. I make it every year. It only requires a few standard ingredients, and it can give you an assortment of different-looking cookie styles. Here’s…
Welcome to our Holiday Yum blog hop recipe series! Today, blogger humorist (and one of my fab gal pals) Natalie Hartford treats us to a personal and hilarious take on French Lace Cookies, so you’ll want to check it out! But while you’re here, I’d like to share a little holiday analogy with you, re-posted from…
Time for our next recipe on the Holiday Yum blog hop! Check out fab blogger, mom, and Kosher foodie Estee Lavitt and her mouth-watering recipe for Chanukah Baked Latkes. Yep, now you can have your latkes and bake them, too! Why wait for Chanukah? I just have to try these… Looking for gifts for those…
For those of you already looking at snow on the ground, or envious of those who have the white stuff, this one’s for you. Folks in the 19th century had a lot of fun sledding, and doing other winter sports, too. (Click here for last year’s post on 19thc Ice-Skating in Central Park). Here’s an excerpt…
