Posts Categorized: Recipes
Here’s a re-post from last year’s Cyber Monday, with an addition on the end. Happy Shopping! Welcome! If you’re reading this, then the ‘net hasn’t yet crashed from the hordes of internet shoppers. Now that the turkey-induced coma has worn off, most folks are pulling out their wallets and trying to figure out what to…
Welcome to our Holiday Yum series! From November 17th to December 31st, a group of us bloggers will be posting our favorite holiday recipes for you to try out and enjoy. We’ll have everything from cookies and candy and cakes to appetizers and roasts and mocktails! For the full schedule so far, click on the…
After slogging through the dog days of summer, we’re now being rewarded with crisp days and chill nights. Soon the frost will be on the pumpkins, and those pesky mosquitoes will be gone. What better way to celebrate than with a “taste” of the fall season? This time of year, we crave the flavors of…
Welcome to September! Even though the fun of summer travel/vacation is behind us, there is a lot to love about this time of year. I wanted to share with you some of my favorite things about the fall. Fave #1 – The kids go back to school. Don’t get me wrong – I love my…
Welcome to another installment of Tea and Cookies. I like to think of these recipes, with their emphasis on cozy yummy-ness, as a way to add to the mystery reading “experience.” This time, I have a family favorite for you, and a story to go along with it. The Haystacks Story: My mom is the…
There are a lot of perks to having kids. 1) You get to goof off in the name of “hands-on parenting.” I’d look kind of silly doing a science experiment with a bottle, pen cap, sculpting clay, paper clips, flossers, and LOTS of water…everywhere – without a kid next to me. I’m sure I looked…
I’m so excited to have August McLaughlin here today, as our guest cookie baker/tea barista! Not only is she sharing her fab recipes with us (homemade chai? sign me up!), but she’s also giving us some interesting background from her own family’s relationship with tea, along with a little Indian tea history. Squee! Can I keep her?…
Today’s post is the first installment of an occasional recipe series that I will feature here, called Tea and Cookies! Tea is such a versatile beverage: hot or iced; herbal, green, white, or black; caff or decaf; loose or bagged. There are even medicinal teas for colds, sick tummies, sleepless nights, or that “time of…
