You know, my rule of thumb is that seasonal ingredients go together. Some ingredients span seasons but most of them are spring-summer/fall-winter oriented. So I don’t usually try to mix watermelon with cranberries. You know what I mean?
Bourbon is, to me, a winter ingredient. I say ingredient because I don’t drink hardly at all..and rarely hard liquor. Strawberries are spring and summer…the two should not mix….except…

Except this worked. I was amazed. The flavors just all blended into a mass of incredible. This went way beyond

I had seen the strawberry tartare in the March (maybe?) issue of Tea Times and I knew I wanted to do something similar for Erin’s shower. The strawberry mixture was mounded in silver spoons and it created a very whimsical amuse bouche.
I wasn’t sure how to make it work for the shower but I was determined to do so.  And, I am happy to say, not only did it work, it was awesome.  The flavors came together to create a refreshing palate cleanser and everyone loved them.

My son Matthew came up with the brilliant idea of placing the bowls of …read more

 
When I was making the cake for Amanda’s graduation last week, I had  one layer crumble as I was moving it. Not just crack, mind you, but CRUMBLE with every ounce of determination it had to crumble.
You can’t just toss out cake.  Not here anyway. So I took the pieces and spread them in a 13x 9 dish and set them aside.

In a very short time I have to take my husband into the VA hospital for some check ups on how he is doing. The VA was basicaly created to remind those of us who served in the military what it was like to wait frustratingly long times to not have our needs met. However, it is a necessary evil today.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to get time to bake at all and then I remembered that I had seen some wonderful things around the internet lately..Some of these blogs are going up on the …read more

Here are the pictures! Thanks Marc!!

I will post pictures of this in a bit. You see, there has apparently been a mutiny in techni-land and my computer is not speaking to my camera. Even my husband, who is the computer fixer in our family, has been unable to mediate between the two. He has graciously and wonderfully volunteered to take my camera to work and load the pictures on his laptop when he has time and then emailing them to me. As soon as that happens pictures will magically appear on today’s recipe. Life is good.
Anyway. In my …read more