Zucchini Bread Comparisons

When I went to work on Wednesday, I brought some of the zucchini bread I made following my Grandma’s recipe and it went over pretty well. Today my co-worker Reagan brought in some of the zucchini bread her Nana made for her and it was like seeing in real life the bread that I was […]

Music in the Kitchen

When I was in Culinary school there was no music in our classroom kitchens. Then when I went to my first job at a large resort on the Oregon Coast I worked in a bunch of different departments and the only one that played music was when I was in the bake shop. I’m […]

Topics from my brother

My younger brother is the one of the most interesting people I know. He is highly intelligent and very driven. He has an analytical mind that lends itself well to Math and Science. In fact if he hadn’t become a Petroleum Engineer he would have made a hell of a Master Pastry Chef. He is […]

My Dad and Grandma

I find myself writing about my Dad and Grandma a lot. I have to say that I loved my Grandma but she kind of scared me a bit too. She always seemed so much bigger and robust then my Mother’s Mom who was a tiny thing, in fact she got along very well with my […]

Finds from Grandma’s Recipe Box

Over the weekend I started to go through my Grandma’s recipe box. It was packed pretty tightly with all kinds of recipes. A lot of them where hand written, but quite a few you can tell she used a typewriter to type up the recipes. There were recipes for Church gatherings, Family gatherings and recipes […]

Church Windows #2

In my blog yestereday I promised the recipe for the cookies and here it is written in my Aunt Alice’s handwriting. I’m also going to type it. Church Window Cookies 1 stick of Oleo ( margarine is what most people call it. I bought Imperial) 12 ounce package of chocolate chips 1 cup of coconut […]

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 […]

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 […]