As I have said before, I love breakfast but I really hate making it.  Yes, I am a morning person, and yes I love cooking but the idea of getting up and having to cook is what does me in. So, in my fantasies I am the quintessential 1950’s sit-com mom (no! Not Lucy!) with the apron, the coiffed hair, the pearls and high heels; but in reality I wear jeans, barefoot most of the time, and I almost always have flour or batter marks on my jean legs where I have cleaned my hands on them rather than being reasonable and wearing an apron.  There is nothing…NOTHING like going to the grocery store to pick up an ingredient you overlooked and realizing that you have two perfectly placed flour handprints on your backside. Yes.  True confessions. ... [Read more]

Today is the first day of real autumn in the Dallas area.  Rainy, cool…it feels almost Christmassy…I know, I know….you up north are wondering oif I lost my mind…Christmassy? Yeah. We don’t have white Christmases…we have WET Christmases..so when it gets cool and rainy I start whistling Jingle Bells…go figure. [Read more] [Read more]

We were headed to a party the other night. It was the birthday party for some friends of my younger sons, but the whole family was invited.  I always feel badly for people that invite all of us because of [Read more] [Read more]

You have to love Spring….because it is strawberry season of course! Maybe not where you are, but here? Strawberries have been ripening for a few weeks and last week the rhubarb started coming in to the stores.  Big, juicy stalks of rhubarb.  I have been waiting for this! Of course, the classic combo is strawberry rhubarb pie.  I like to make it with [Read more] [Read more]

I am getting to Baking Delights late today because I have been blog-surfing. I know, I usually do most of that on Saturday. My schedule has been so crazy since December, what with the holidays, my daughter’s family moving in, Marc losing his job, Marc’s surgery… and dealing with the stresses of those things, I have just not been doing much more than cooking and writing. I have missed checking in on my blogging friends, and meeting new ones. By the way, I thought that having my own Victorian Calling Card would be cool…so I got that one from Graphics by Judi. She has some awesome pretty stuff if you like that type of thing…which I do.. So, hopefully, I will be visiting you all more..and just today I have discovered... [Read more]