Happy New Year!  Is your resolution to have a sweet 2010?  You know we all need a little sweet in our lives to make us happy. Make sure to add a little sweet to your new year with this heavenly, fluffy, nutty Pecan-Honey Butter.  Use it on your breads, biscuits, french toast, or pancakes – [...]

  I have to admit that even though I am an avid home cook and baker, I still carry a soft spot in my heart for fast food.  Of course I couldn’t eat it every day, but I do occasionally indulge my soft spot with a Wendy’s Spicy Chicken Sandwich, a Whopper Jr. with cheese, [...]

I have always felt that in order to truly enjoy a book, a person must see themselves in some part related to the main character.  Big or small, the relation causes you to connect to them and care about their resulting fate. The story of Julia Child  in her biography My Life In France gave [...]

Here you see a picture of the very last of the Allspice Crumb Muffins, now extinct in this household.  The elusive Allspice Crumb Muffin almost didn’t make an appearance for the photo, as it seemed to disappear every time it was set aside . . . I was finally able to grab the last one [...]

Last night we had a traditional Southern “vegetable plate” for dinner – collard greens, field peas, fried squash and eggplant, and pepper relish.  After informing my husband of the menu, he promptly gave me the “Where’s the beef?” look, which reminded me of this month’s Kitchen Reader‘s book selection, Julie & Julia.  In the book [...]

One of our dogs loves to ‘counter-cruise’.  When no one is looking, she puts her paws up on the kitchen counter and grabs whatever has been carelessly left too close to the edge.  Once we opened a Krispy Kreme doughnut box and found it empty.  Somehow she had lifted up the top and eaten the [...]