Church Windows

My husband and I had a quiet weekend and I took an extra day off because I was having a Sleep Study…seems I snore a bit. If you asked my big sister, who had to share a room with me last year at our baby brother’s Surprise 40th Birthday Weekend, I snore so loudly and […]

Memorial Day

17 years ago I met an amazing man and married him 5 years later. My husband had a son from his previous marriage. A wonderful young man named Andrew. When Andrew graduated high school he didn’t go off to college like the rest of his friends. Instead he joined the Marines. Now when Andrew told […]

Time to confess…

Okay, here it is. I have a confession. I’m a recipe junkie. I collect recipes anywhere I can get them. Online and from Cookbooks. Recipes from cereal boxes, pasta boxes, the newspaper. Really anything that has a recipe on it will end up somewhere in my cooking stuff. I have 1115 recipes currently in my […]

Dinner with Dad

My parents were divorced when I was around 5 or 6 and my Dad would get my little brother and I every other weekend when I was younger. One of the things I remember most about Friday night dinner after my Dad would pick us up was that dinner was almost always waffles. My Dad […]

Sunday mornings

In my house Sunday mornings are pretty low key. My husband always goes out to get me a Vanilla Latte from my favorite coffee shop, Florence Coffee Company. It started when I had pneumonia about 6 years back and was stuck in the house as a way to make me feel better and it has […]

3 Things from Culinary School that I still practice today

The basics that I learned in Culinary School are still with me as much today, 22 years later, as they were when I was a fresh-faced kid of 22 picking up a knife for the first time. My Holy Trinity of cooking well comes from 3 things I learned on my first day. Always have […]

Bread is Life

Bread is something that is universal. It’s in every culture. If you asked a stranger walking down the street what they thought a universal food might be, one that every culture has some form of, I would bet that 95% of them would mention bread. There is just something about a warm loaf of bread […]

The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining me! This is something I have been wanting to try for sometime. I have a Bachelors of Science degree in Culinary Arts and have worked for years in the food industry. I have opened and closed a few restaurants in the last 22 plus years and am now just a dabbler at […]