Our kids are involved in JBQ (Junior Bible Quiz) at church and an extremely good friend of mine is the coach. She is an overachiever just like me so it was not a surprise to me personally when this small team, from a small church, beat enough other teams to go to Nationals.  This is a big deal for the whole church, but especially the kids and Mary. In order to send them to Rockford, Ill. we are having a bake sale this morning.

I really kind of sweated about what to make. Bake sales are funny things. …read more

We had an afterglow at church last night and I am experimenting with some of the cookies I want to do for the cookbook. It was a great reason to spend my entire free afternoon baking cookies, right?
These came out fantastic, moist and chewy with a slight crisp crust. To me, that is the perfect chocolate chip cookie, not crispy not chewy but a combination of the two.

So, today is the last day of the road to Chocolate Nirvana. I know, I know, it’s sad but on the bright side we have several really cool things coming up at the H& D channel here at B5…including a way cool Autumn Scavenger Hunt..and a special, channel wide thing the 18th…and don’t forget the next installment of the Christmas countdown on Wednesday, Sept. 12.

What kind of thing? You will have to check back. You should be out of your chocolate coma by then.
O.k. These are from Epicurious. They are…incredible. This is definitly a case for saving the best …read more

I have a son who loves rocky road ice cream. When I make ice cream he is in the pantry pulling out marshmallows, walnuts, chocolate chips, and anything else he thinks he can get away with trying to get me to throw in there. When I heard that we were going ot have a picnic after church last Sunday I was trying to decide what type of chocolate to supply our pastor with ( he loves chocolate almost as much as I do) and I thought about these rocky road brownies. Perfect!
They must have hit the spot they disappeared …read more

Chocolate. I like chocolate. I like dark chocolate. I like milk chocolate. I like white chocolate. Chocolate covered cherries…chocolate covered strawberries..chocolate covered raisins…no chocolate covered grasshoppers though.
We host a home group meeting every Wednesday night for our church…Some of you may know them as small groups, or cell groups.  The thing is that if you have people from church coming over, with the possibility of the pastor dropping by, you want to have your house sparkling like..well, sparkling. You want the kids to be perfect, preferably with one of their GOOD school papers laying out in an obvious place so …read more