Fresh Strawberry Muffins

I love summertime because of the fresh produce that’s so readily available. Although strawberry season is now over here in the Northeast, I still buy them for the boys. We recently bought a big box and the boys weren’t eating them fast enough, so I decided to cook with them. [...]

Shortbread Cookies

I made these cookies for a PTA meeting the other night and they were a big hit. The shortbread recipe is nice and easy. I’m always amazed that shortbread cookies don’t have any eggs or baking soda/powder in them. I found that these cookies were delicious both with and without the [...]

Sugar-Crusted Popovers

You dip anything in sugar and you’ve got my attention.

I’ve been looking at a couple of popover recipes lately, and I actually made one the other night with my son that was a big flop.   What were supposed to be nice, puffy, savory popovers turned out to be short, dense hockey pucks.   I’m not exactly [...]

No-Bake Chewy Granola Bars

My husband went out to play guitar with a bunch of friends tonight and I stayed home with the boys.   It’s a Friday so the boys are allowed to play with their Wii (they’re not allowed to play during the week, so they look forward to Friday afternoons!)   Three of the four like the Wii.   [...]

Krumkake

Ever since Thanksgiving, things have been a whirlwind around here and consequently I haven’t posted in a while. In addition, I also made a bunch of recipes that weren’t worthy of posting, but that changed today!

One of my sons had a holiday party in his classroom today and the theme was “An International [...]

Grandmother Paula's Sour Cream Pound Cake

Last week we had two back-to-school picnics for the boys.  Each family is asked to bring a dish to share.    For the first picnic I made this pound cake and spinach brownies (a savory appetizer).   The spinach brownies weren’t good enough to post here – they were ok, not great -  and this pound cake [...]