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 […]

Choosing to be happy.

It’s been a busy few days but I promised myself when I started this adventure that I would try to actively post at least 5 to 6 days a week. I have yet to do that consistently and today I’m just completely stumped as what to write. I haven’t done much in the kitchen in […]

Comfort & Food

What is it about food that draws people together? Is it because we all get hungry and it’s convenient to sit together and break bread? Or is it more of way to be close to those we love? I know from personal experience that food is not only a form of physical sustenance for our […]

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 […]

Boxes of memories

I wasn’t sure if I was going to write about this aspect of my life but I think I will. In the last couple of weeks I’ve received boxes from both of my Parents. The one from my Dad was expected and and I was very excited to receive it because I knew it was […]

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 […]

Wasting my Time

Back in February I was hospitalized for Acute Respiratory Failure from a bad case of the flu. Since that time I’ve had some issues off and on with breathing and have been to a couple of specialists, including a Cardiology appointment that I was supposed to have today. I say supposed to because I ended […]

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 […]

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 […]