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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…

"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…

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

We’re a snackin’ family, is all…

Ask not what your book club can do for 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?…

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

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

"There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm.  There are still people in this world who keep promises.  Even little ones, like cooking stew over your Bunsen burner .. …

"Because everyone is defenseless at breakfast, there should be no contentiousness or crossness"   ~ Marion Cunningham…

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

"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage"  ~  Martin Luther…

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

I'm not sure what's come over me exactly. Other than somewhere in the nostalgic depths of my mind ..…

"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"…

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

Do you have a favorite cookbook?…

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

“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!…

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

“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…

"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!" ~ Dr Seuss | How the Grinch Stole Christmas…

Trivia! How many cookies does Santa eat on Christmas Eve?…

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

Chunks of dark chocolate, lots of nut butter…

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

"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…

"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…

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

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

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

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

"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 ..…

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

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

"Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it" ~ Josh Billings…

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?…

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon" ~ Doug Larson…

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

Have you tidied up?…

At our house, this past week has been all about…

"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!" …

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

Several years have passed since my family…

I remember trying not to shoo them out of the kitchen…

Happy Friday! What are your plans for the weekend?…

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

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh" said Piglet at last .. "What's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"…

Happy Thursday!…

Bone density peaks around what age?…

Monday trivia! …

"I don't believe in twisting yourself into knows of excuses and explanations over the food you make" ~ Julia Child…

This week started in the best of ways, with…

Happy Labor Day! What are you up to this long weekend? We're ..…

Happy Monday!…

Only because I don't have kids in school can I say…

These past summer months most evenings a little before dusk…

Which of the following can neutralize "bad" cholesterol so it doesn't damage your arteries?…

I slowly savored my sliver of raspberry galette as he told me stories of the Russian physicist ..…

Happy Tuesday!…

"I don't feel much like Pooh today," said Pooh…

"I don't have hot flashes. I have short, private vacations in the tropics" ~ Anonymous…

Happy Sunday! I hope this Father's Day brings you lots of…

"You know it's raining out there, right?" …

Happy Monday! I hope you've had the best of weekends…

What are you up to this weekend? …

Trivia - What's the most common cause of thyroid disease in the US?…

Have you heard of Tina Christie's new interview series? "Lifestyle is the New Medicine"…

Happy Wednesday! I hope you're having a wonderful week…

The funny thing about some of life's troubles is…

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

I've come to believe that, whether you're 4 or 44, when you're not feeling well…

I hope you're having the happiest of weeks. At our house ..…

"Everything that is not written down disappears except for certain imperishable moments, people and scenes"…

I've been thinking a lot about expectations…

Few things in life are more important than…

"Did you hear it?"…

With only one week to go in the latest 9-week Challenge…

The thing you're doing right now, that seems so terribly important…

Certainly, there are many great holidays. Although if I have a choice, my favorite days of the year to celebrate are…

Every now and then it sure is nice to play hooky for a few days and…

On any given afternoon I can be found…

What are you up to this (long) weekend? We're ..…

"No two persons ever read the same book" ~ Edmund Wilson…

Did you make a New Year's Resolution?…

As one year comes to a close and a new one begins. I can't help but reflect and remind myself how very thankful I am for ..…

No matter how much you psych yourself up, think a happy thought and hope for the best; the first few days of…

I sat in my car outside the building this Saturday in December. …

There's an aisle at our local co-op that's always been slightly mysterious…

It's always fun to visit new places, and the past few days we've been in…

Their first meeting in 1923 was the stuff of legend: She wore a black satin mask on a bridge in Berlin and recited his own poetry to him…