Category: Cooking & Entertaining

Aren't these coral roses just the prettiest color?  I wanted to do something a little different this weekend when we had company.  Coral isn't a color I wear or decorate with, but I think I may have been missing something.  It all started with our kitchen table, which we have had for over 30 years.  […]

  My favorite girls came over last night for a Christmas Jammie Party.  My daughter Sara, three of my sisters and our cousin.  Our sister Mary lives in Wisconsin and is buried in snow right now, or she would have been with us as well. The boys all had to clear out.  My husband took […]

  I am a huge Ina Garten fan.  Not so much of her TV show on Food Network, but of her cookbooks.  On TV, she seems  a bit smug and pretty sure that her friends must be a heck of a lot cooler than mine.  However, her recipes never fail and her cookbooks are total […]

  Hmm, I kinda forgot about the electrical sockets in the background when I took this photo.  My daughter Sara would scold me for being so negligent.  Anyway, what you see on my pretty autumnal dish towel are all the ingredients for my speedy but elegant Chicken Piccata Penne Pasta.  (I added Fines Herbes and […]

What a lovely weekend I had.  I invited my entire family over for a Sunday barbeque in my back yard.  Most of them turned up and we had around 20 people.  Is there anything better than having your loved ones over?  I live about 70 miles away from most of the family, so it is […]

    I have completed my first two weeks at my new job today.  And it was Pay Day!  Big Whoop.  My check was half what I was figuring it was going to be.  I was thinking I was getting paid for two weeks, but nope, that wasn't the case.  I started my job on […]

Company’s coming!  The next three weekends I will be cooking and entertaining friends and relatives; my second favorite thing in the entire world to do.  Some of you who have gotten to know me are aware that I like to collect things:  shoes, fabric, and cookbooks.  Well, I also love to collect dishes!  I found […]

Easter in our family is always exactly the same.  We all gather at Dad’s house around 11:00, and everyone always brings exactly the same offering to the pot lunch brunch.  No variations, no subsitutions allowed!  No one misses this brunch unless they are in Tierra del Fuego (like my nephew) or sick as a dog […]

Saint Patrick’s Day was two days ago.  I know, I know.  Things have just been a bit hectic in my life the past couple of weeks, so that I am behind on my posts.  Every year on March 17, my father and assorted other male relatives beg me to make my version of Corned Beef.  […]

    The past week has been kind of a topsy turvy one, with me busy keeping up with my new puppy Ozzie, with Ozzie figuring out exactly what it is that I want from him, and with my husband adjusting to his new job.  We woke up this morning and discovered that TODAY was […]