Blog Posts

  • Graveyard Cake

    Graveyard Cake

      For many year my husband and I have been gathering recipes that we liked from magazines, newspapers, friends and anywhere else we could find them.  We would make some quickly and others got put in a file for later. …

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  • Family Treasure

    Family Treasure

    Some time ago my mother-in-law gave me a couple of doilies that she had found amongst some old thing of my husbands paternal grandmothers. We don’t know if she made them or not but we don’t have a lot of…

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  • Harvest Time

    Harvest Time

    This is a great time of year.  The colors, sounds, feel and especially the smells of autumn.  For the last couple of weeks we have been smelling our grapes.  Two years ago we planted 3 concord grape  plants.  They seem…

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  • Fresh Bread and Jam

    Fresh Bread and Jam

    We have  a smallish yard in a nice subdivision.  A number of years ago my husband built garden boxes in between our house and the neighbors.  We tried vegetables and they were great but decided that we wanted to grow…

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  • Spaghetti

    Spaghetti

    I love spaghetti. It is one of the most perfect comfort foods in my book. It’s easy to make and my kids love it. As a lot you already know I’m a bit of a picky eater and sometimes the…

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