Over Christmas, my motheri-in-law gave me her January 2009 edition of Fine Cooking magazine.  She told me she bought the magazine for only one recipe, the one on the back cover.  As I flipped through the pages, I saw many many recipes I wanted to try, but guess which one I tried first?  The one [...]

On the Penny page, Mama Bear asked “I was craving biscuits tonight while making dinner (butter chicken over rice) and would love your best biscuit recipe, if you don’t mind sharing!” Well, Mama Bear, yesterday I posted these Cheesy Garlic Biscuits that are fantastic.  I made them just for you, in fact, so that I [...]

Growing up, if my parents were to go to Red Lobster, it was a treat.  As a child, though, I would say “yuck!” because I couldn’t even stand the smell of seafood.  To this day, I’m still not the biggest fan of seafood, but I’m finding that it’s because I grew up in an area [...]

My parents visited from Michigan this weekend to celebrate our Christmas.  They arrived New Years’ Day and were going to stay until today, but they ended up leaving last night because an ice storm was in the forecast for today in Michigan. The first morning they were here, I made some Monkey Bread with my [...]

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