Today on b5 Lifestyles we are exploring Lifestyles in bloom. This is the time of year of lush growth and beautiful flowers. Gardens are at their best!
I considered so many things for Baking Delights and then just decided on a list of 50 recipes that utilize flowers or flower essences as an ingredient or a decor. Some are not baked, but all look fantastic! Ready?

So, Leftovers…unless you have teenage boys you are bound to have them.
June’s What to do with Leftover….. theme is pasta.
What do you do with that cup of left over rigatoni, or that smidgen of orzo left in the pan? A single lasagne noodle?
So here are the rules:

Valli, at More than Burnt Toast is one of the blogs that I take time to visit regularly. The list is growing because there are so many blogs that are wonderful but there are a few that I try to get to daily, and comment on at least several times a week.
Valli’s food is….
yum.
She does alot of Greek food and that is a cuisine that I love, but I don;t cook nearly enough. She has inspired me many times over.
She gave me this award:

And I am so very honored.

 
Lemon Doughnuts…Yummy!
And another week is gone! As I said on Kettle and Cup this morning, life has eben hectic and I haven’t visited as many blogs as I would like. By the way there are a ton of coupon codes for coffee over there today.
I have realized something.  You know there are millions of food blogs but really there are only maybe a thousand that are posted on regularly.  If you notice that you see the same names on the blogsurfing saturday it is because I have gotten frustrated hitting blog oafter blog where the last post …read more

I love this picture.
I won an award!
If you aren’t a blogger, or you haven’t been blogging long you may wonder at the excitement of being given a little picture to slap on your blog and have it called an award. It isn’t like you are going to get your picture in the paper or anything, right?
Yeah..but out of the thousands of you that read this blog everyday an average of 10 will comment, maybe. For all I know everyone else is just passing through on their way to

Don’t you hate it when you wake up and you are laying in bed and can’t go back to sleep? I do. I won’t stare off into the darkness of the room for long..I usually get up.
Well it has been unusually chilly in Texas this spring and I didn’t want to get up so I did the next best thing..I thought about something helpful I could add to the blog. I mean, doesn’t everyone contemplate their blog at 4 a.m.?
Frugality was once a trait that was admired. A cook that could make something out of nothing, that knew …read more

Better late than never…Today I have chosen alot of blogs that have images that I enjoy.  If you are going to blog food you need to take your own pictures as much as you can, I think, and they need to be good!  Following are some of the best images I have seen this week..

Welcome to this week’s installment of Saturday Surfing… First of all, I want to remind you guys about the contest here at Baking Delights. You only have to blog it to enter for the cookbook, or leave an idea for a tagline to enter for the gift certificate. Be creative. Please? Taglines are NOT my best thing..in fact I am thinking of starting a website called Taglines-R-not-us for people who really want bad tag lines.

 
o.k..so I had a rough day.  I am sitting here at midnight, should be sleeping, but decided to go ahead and post my Saturday Surfing because I am such a creature of habit.
If you must know, my computer is down for the count and I am on the slower, less cool, less helpful computer usually relegated to the kids reports and school stuff.  We are a paperless homeschool as much as possible.
However I am going to prevail on this behomoth. So…
One thing I have not posted about is the blog challenges and roundups that happen regularly.  DaringBakers is only one …read more