I love date nut anything.  My mom did not cook a lot but every Holiday Season she would make fruitcake and date nut bread.  It was, I think, the time when I felt our family was the most “normal”.
There is something about coming in on a dim winter afternoon, cheeks frozen from sledding, and smelling the aroma of date nut bread wafting out of the oven.  Not that I have experienced many snowy afternoons here in Texas, but growing up in Bucks County, Pa..well I had my share of Currier and Ives moments!

Making a sweet bread for breakfast means thinking …read more

O.k..so..yeah.
It’s just bread with cranberries and walnuts. But, I love naming things so humor me.  I do not go as far as one of my favorite characters, Anne Shirley,naming trees and woods but I like to give my recipes cool names.  Especially for bake sales.

I am getting in the mood for Autumn, and the holidays, not because the weather has been cool and rainy..because it hasn’t! We are hovering around 100 today again with high humidity that makes you want to suck the air into your body through a straw.
But the color of the light is starting to change. Autumn light has a golden cast to it..and it is beginning. I can feel in myself the changes that I grew up with in Pennsylvania/New Jersey..the turning of the leaves..the first gentle fall breezes..the smell of leaves burning, and the sound of …read more

This oatmeal cake is as homey and comforting as it gets. My Aunt Lillian made it often and, while you probably would not find it in a Parisian cafe oatmeal cake really does taste like what a quilt, a good book and a roaring fire would taste like if you could taste that feeling. . I believe that I bake this in a 9″ square pan.
  Oatmeal cake is not too too sweet…Just right with a cup of cold milk or a cup of coffee…
  1 1/4 c boiling water
1 c quick oatmeal
Pour water over oatmeal and let stand for 20 minutes.
 Add:
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