Chocolate Castles

  • Sugar Cookies

    Avenida is hosting a breast cancer awareness breakfast for the ladies here tomorrow! When I was ask to make cookies for it, I responded with a quick YES and ordered the needed cookie cutter immediately! Well, I am so thankful I started the baking yesterday just in case of any last minute necessary changes! My Read more

  • Signs & Taste of FallCaramel pumpkin spice rice crispy treats: Today certainly doesn’t feel like Fall, but when I looked out over our balcony and saw that hay and pumpkins had been delivered out front, it spurred me on to think “what can I make today that taste and makes me think that Fall is Read more

  • May We Never Forget

    May We Never Forget

    It is a sobering day to look back and remember what happened to our Nation 24 years ago. And then to watch and hear about the tragic killing of Charlie Kirk yesterday. We sit and watch news report after news report and hear how our country needs unity and gun control. In the last 20 Read more

  • Funeral Sandwiches…. No they dont kill you , ( well maybe if you ate them everyday the cholestrol might) but Because we love Funeral sandwiches, I took them to a social here where we live. They are called Funeral sandwiches because they were often served at funeral gatherings since the recipe makes so many. Taken Read more

  • Blueberry Crunch

    Because I had bought some Phyllo sheets last week to make a Portuguese pastry I had seen on TV I had a few sheets of the dough left over! (Next week I will again make that new recipe as we both fell in Love with the Pastel De Nara and will video making it) Randy Read more

  • Chicken Pot Pie

    A sweet friend called yesterday and ask if we were home of which I replied that we were! So in a few minutes she walked down with a Costco rotisserie chicken! She thought we might just like one so she bought us one! Tonight (as I had made 5 bags of chicken from that one Read more