Chocolate Castles

  • Individual Pumpkin Creamcheese Bundt Cakes

    Using your favorite pumpkin pound cake recipe, make them in individual cakes to use as your name place card holders. This is the recipe I used last evening and then topped them with Cream cheese Frosting and Fall sprinkles! 8 oz softened cream cheese 3 sticks softened butter 1 cup brown sugar 2 cups granulated… Read more

  • Cooking & Cleaning

    It’s amazing how “company coming to town” will inspire me to clean house. It’s so easy to look past dusty baseboards and dirty windows. We seem to think that eventually it will rain and get the windows either dirtier which makes us think it’s no use wasting our energy, or the rain will kind of clean at… Read more

  • Thanksgiving Tidbits

    Last week I was watching a chef, who I cannot remember his name, showed a few ideas of how to decorate your table, without spending the money you were going to use to buy the matching jets from Neiman’s catalog. He used the miniature pumpkins and had one for each guests. Using a biscuit cutter,… Read more

  • Wild Mushroom Bread Pudding

    I am in love with bread puddings of all kinds. In a new  BH&G Christmas book, this recipe jumped off the page. Well, not actually, but when I saw the picture of it, I wanted to jump in the kitchen and make it. A great meatless main dish or a wonderful side to any type… Read more

  • Thanks and Gratitude to Our Veterans

    First of al I want to just say thanks to each Veteran who has sacrificed so much. Just sitting here this morning in a warm and comfortable home that had plenty of food and no fear of someone dictating what I can or cannot write makes me so grateful for the freedoms that we have… Read more

  • Finicky Frosty’s Fine Spaghetti

    Last night, we (well, actually Frosty) was busy putting out lights on our patio so I would quit saying, “Frosty, I wish we could be the first ones on our street this year to put lights up.” So while he was outside, I got in the mood for Italian. I remembered this dish that I… Read more