Paper Palate

When I was younger I used to always have the radio on. When I would wake up in the morning, and I would listen to music when I was getting ready for school and work. I remember bopping around the house/apartment/room to the music. I would also always fall asleep with music on softly in […]

I am not a procrastinator on all things, but there are some things that I procrastinate with until the last minute. Writing my freelance articles is one example. It seems like my best written articles come to me when I have waited until the very last minute to write them. I do my best work […]

Have you ever purchased a cookbook that you absolutely had to have right that very minute? Nothing at all could sway you from not buying it. I do that with cooking magazines all the time, but rarely is it that a cookbook catches my attention so much that I buy it immediately without running home […]

I had torn up my “Final Notice” subscription renewal form from Gourmet magazine. I had convinced myself that I no longer needed to see the magazine monthly and that not renewing my subscription would be one small step I could take towards budgeting in the new year. The truth is, I haven’t been overly crazy […]

My husband always passes up freebies. You know, when you are in the store and they have a free sample of this or a free sample of that, he walks right on by. I, on the other hand, am a freebie fool. Even if I don’t like the sample, I usually find myself taking one… […]

I have never considered myself to be a soup person. Given the option of soup or salad, salad would always be my choice. Soup seemed like a side item… not something that could be used for the main course. Well, I was not a soup person and now I know why. I was not eating […]

I used to be of the mindset that dessert is not the place to cut fat and calories. It was rare that I would use low-fat cream cheese or a sugar substitute. I thought if you were going to eat dessert, you might as well go for it and indulge. Well, that was three children […]

Doesn’t it seem like Taste of Home magazine has been around forever? I believe the magazine is in its 15th year of publication. That is quite impressive for a magazine that is ad free and is simply a magazine full of reader submitted and test kitchen recipes.
The October/November 2007 issues of Taste of Home is […]

Like most moms out there, I am in awe each and every day of how fast time seems to slip by. I wake up in the morning and between the three kids, their school, my work, housecleaning, post-school activities, time with hubby, I am one busy woman. By the time I get the chance to […]

On my personal blog recently, I mentioned something about cool weather. Since that day, I think I have jinxed things. The temps were back up in the warmer ranges and the cool days we were having are long gone for awhile again. Ahhhh… you have to love Kansas. If you don’t like the weather one day, […]