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From flannel pjs, sunrises worth seeing, to Dumas over dinner .. a few things that have been happening in our world lately…

Olive's private view is that life depends on what she thinks of as "big bursts" and "little bursts."…

"Life is mostly pain and struggle; the rest is love and deep-dish pizza"   ~ Benedict Smith…

I make a lot of frittatas…

Midweek Inspiration No. 14: The Sweetest Advice…

Happy Saturday!…

Last week, in the kitchen, I…

“The weight of this sad time we must obey. Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”    ~ King Lear…

“And as I surveyed the clutter of his study I was pleased to see that he was a man after my own heart.  All of his money appeared to have been spent on either…

“I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.”    - Maya Angelou…

"It's often the small steps, not the giant leaps that bring about the most lasting change"   ~ Queen Elizabeth…

When I was younger and didn't have much experience in the art of entertaining…

"I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out"   ~ Billy Crystal to Meg Ryan in When Harry Met…

"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing so that some have entertained angels without knowing it"  ~ Hebrews 13:2 | King James Version…

"I just called to say I love you .. "   ~ Stevie Wonder…

Healthy comfort food…

Midweek Inspiration No. 13:  Apples!  Whatever should we be doing with all of our apples?…

"No one will feed you as well as someone who loves you"   ~ Alton Brown…

These are the apples you make…

"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love"  ~ Rumi…

To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle.  Perhaps the wildness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace.  Wilderness…

We’re a snackin’ family, is all…

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."    ~ Bertrand Russell…

"When you know who you are; when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will; no cold can touch your heart; no deluge can dampen your purpose.  You…

"Keep going.  Each step may get harder, but don't stop.  The view is beautiful at the top"  …

Happy Friday! What are you up to this weekend?…

"We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize"   ~ Thich Nhat Hanh…

Happy Sunday! What are you up to this weekend?…

"This, Grandma.  This was the best day ever"  ~ Love, Eli…

Do you have a favorite back-of-the-box recipe?…

What are your best conversation starters?…

"Because when you stop and look around this life is pretty amazing"     ~ Dr. Seuss…

"I took myself out for ramen at lunch today.  It was like getting a big hug from a bowl of soup"   ~ Overheard at the office…

"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook"     ~ Julia Child…

Happy Friday! What are you up to this weekend?…

Dr. Laura .. Whether you love her or hate her, she had a heck of a good call a few years ago…

Happy Sunday! What are you up to this weekend?…

I had a neighbor once who baked the most delicious confections…

Mid Week Inspiration No. 7:  What do you eat when you're home alone?…

From paper snowflakes in the windows to catching cranberries in the driveway to mastering the art of gumdrop making, a few things that have been happening in our world, lately…

"I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my…

"The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get"…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? …

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love"     ~ Hubert H. Humphrey…

Stop what you’re doing. Dinner tonight is the very best kind there is…

“Health, contentment and trust are your greatest possessions, and freedom your greatest joy!” ~ Buddha…

Do you have a favorite cookbook?…

“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism or better living through exercise. It's because of ..…

Happy Tuesday!…

It's inevitable. You're at a weekend birthday party ..…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

Ar·ca·dia \är-ˈkā-dē-ə\ 1. Region of Greece: in mythology the domain of the god Pan 2. Pastoral Paradise; an ideal of life in harmony with nature…

From afternoon coffee runs in our slippers .. to giant lap dogs .. to couch cocoa and peanut butter from the spoon. A few things that have been happening in our world lately…

Happy Friday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

"Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it" ~ Andy Rooney…

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs" ~ Pearl Strachan Hurd…

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take…

"Whether you think you can, or you can't .. you're right" ~ Henry Ford…

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating" ~ Luciano Pavarotti…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

“Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he’d wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it.” ~ Alison Fell…

“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!…

“I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.” ~ Nora Ephron…

What do you do when you're home alone?…

“If God had intended us to follow recipes, he wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” ~ Linda Henley…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

Chunks of dark chocolate, lots of nut butter…

"We're a nation of largely exhausted cooks today" ~ The New York Times…

"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?" ~ Charlie Brown…

"Have I told you lately that I love you?" ~ Van Morrison…

Once upon a time, there was a little girl names Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon she came upon a house. …

"I want to thank-you. Thank-you for being a friend" ~ Andrew Gold…

We barked and waved as the last of our guests headed off, leftovers in hand, into the star-filled October night…

"It's hard to be angry or upset, and be grateful at the same time. If I'm ever of emotional or upset about something I think 'What am I grateful for?' I just…

"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" ~ William Shakespeare | Macbeth…

"What could be more important than a little something to eat?" ~ Winnie the Pooh…

"If we're not meant to have midnight snacks, why is there a light in the fridge?" ~ Unknown…

I'm not going to tell you ..…

Sometimes, when you're a food blogger who's learned enough to know what you don't know…

"I have a core belief. Life is always happening for us, not to us, and it's our job to find out where the benefit is. If we do, life is magnificent" …

When it's a beautiful summer's night; when the weary travelers have returned home from a month away…

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree” ~ Martin Luther…

"After all, tomorrow is another day" ~ Scarlett O'Hara | Gone with the Wind…

Happy Friday! What are you up to this weekend? …

"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired" ~ Friedrich Nietzche…

She wasn't getting back to me. She always gets back to me …

"These are the days of the endless summer. These are the days, the time is now…

"This book is for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chaffer-den-mother syndrome, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? …

Happy Tuesday! How was your long holiday weekend?…

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language"…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…

"Hi G'ma .. How 'ya doin'?"…

"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand, like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's Chocolate" ~ Katharine Hepburn…

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood…

"Call this number. I swear it's hocus pocus, but people who go are never the same" …

"Tell me again? Can that really be right? How many diapers does a baby use during the first year?"…

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people" ~ Orson Welles…

Happy Saturday! What are you up to this weekend? We're ..…