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Baked Alaska is one of those legendary desserts that a lot of people want to try, but seem to be intimidated by. I was one of those people until I noticed this recipe in a local newspaper insert called Relish Magazine. This version of Baked Alaska seemed like a winner… with store bought pound cake, […]

I subscribe to a lot of food magazines. I admit it… it is a bit of a problem I have. One magazine that I subscribe to but do not usually turn to for recipes and food related information is O, The Oprah Magazine. The stories are inspirational, the content is interesting, but I don’t typically […]

One thing I love about hot tea is that you can’t chug it down. Hot tea has to be savored slowly, forcing the person drinking it to pause their life a bit to enjoy some calming down time. One of the things I love about the colder months is my afternoon tea ritual. I love […]

I happen to be what I like to call organized in a very chaotic way. I have a very deep desire to find my inner organized self. I know she’s in there… she used to be the only self I had but that was all pre-kids/pre-chaos. When it was just me and my little life, […]

Rachael Ray… it seems like people either love her, or they hate her. I happen to like Rachael Ray. I don’t watch her shows, but I do get her magazine and always seem to find plenty of recipes in each issue to keep subscribing. Her recipes aren’t always simple, as you would expect, but her […]

This may astound some of you, but I don’t own a lot of cookbooks. I have my handful of favorites, but for the most part collect recipes through blogs, online recipe sites, and cooking magazines. I have to really love a cookbook to buy it, and although I am tempted by a lot of them, […]

I will admit . . . I have been a little disenchanted with some of the latest issues of Food & Wine magazine. Usually, I am able to flip through the magazine and bookmark a good handful of recipes to add to my “I will make this someday list.” Lately, however, I have bookmarked less […]

Recently, I was asked what I was passionate about. What subject really got my engines revving. At the time, I mentioned that I had strong feelings about certain subjects, but could not think of any that I was extremely passionate about. Then, I knew just the thing … family mealtime.
I am passionate about family mealtime. […]

Yesterday afternoon, the two-year-old in my family had a meltdown … in the middle of the grocery store. Let me tell you, it was a lovely sight. First, refusing to wear her shoes and then refusing to sit in the cart, my normally sweet and laid-back daughter completely lost it. Running off, lying in the […]

I am a very visual person. I love to have recipes with photographs … it makes the recipe that much more tempting and desirable. Often times, I will be flipping through a magazine and will fall in love with a photo of a recipe, only to take a look at the recipe and realize that I […]