Some of the best recipes are passed down from generation to generation. We all have them, written on scraps of paper, and old index cards…tattered, yellowed and filled with memories. Most of those recipes, we can make by feel…a handful of this, a heaping spoonful of that. The recipe will vary slightly each time, but [...]
Passion is what you wake up breathing and go to bed dreaming. Sometimes Passion hits you when you are young and you don’t even know what it is. Sometimes it comes later in life, and you are excited and ready. But when it hits you, there’s no stopping it. You can’t control Passion. Sometimes you [...]
If you’ve been following the wheat-free posts I’ve been doing for the last 2 weeks, you might be climbing the walls about this time and are probably ready for something sweet that you can crunch! The truth is, most of us have the option to go wheat-free if we choose. But for many people, being [...]
The Girl Scout cookies have been in the house for two weeks now. We try to deliver them as quickly as possible, but they linger…I have to “round up”…” 20 extra boxes….puhleese?…200 boxes and I can get the…”(you fill in the blank). I always order extra of the most popular cookies…Samoas and Thin Mints. They [...]
This recipe comes to me from my friend Amy. She’s been making these Lemon bars for our summertime concerts in the park for a long time. As long as we’ve know her, the girls have been calling her, “Lemon Bar Amy“, because of her delicious Lemon Bars. When Spencer and I moved into our first [...]
If Autumn is a man, then Winter is a woman. Especially when the first snow dusts the ground giving her an elegant mink coat, sparkling in the late afternoon, crystal earrings hanging from her evergreen lobes. Ok, that’s not Pasadena, but a girl can dream can’t she? It’s a quiet time…just after the holidays, when [...]
