Chocolate Castles

  • Cooking up a Storm

    You know me, I have missed cooking so much that I am now just cooking all day long. Last night I made a chocolate chocolate chip pound cake with ganache and sent it off with Randy to his office. Today I am making Eggplant Parmesan, one of Randh’s favorites. Will be needing to go to… Read more

  • Pork & Potato Stew

    1 can Progresso French onion soup 1/2 cup chopped onion 1 lb cubes from pork tenderloin or pork chops 3 large carrots, cut up 2 large potatoes, cubes into 1 1/2″ cubes 1 package McCormick pork gravy mix 1 tbl olive oil or vegetable oil 1 teas ea. garlic powder, pepper and seasoning salt Heat… Read more

  • California Dreamin

    The furniture has arrived! We have made too many trips to Goodwill to count because we simply do not have room for so many of our things. In fact, Randy, (or Cal, which is his new California name) has actually designed an escape route should we need one in case of having to evacuate the… Read more

  • Rose Bowl Review

    This has started out as the greatest New Years Day. We had the parade floats lining up directly in front of our house, here in Pasadena. Not only that, but my year was made complete already by getting a picture of Paula Deen. Now I don’t know about everyone else, but to this Butter Princess,… Read more

  • Watching the Rose Bowl Set Up From our Balcony

    This is so cool! We are in our new condo in Pasadena, sitting in our living room watching people walk up and down, setting up the floats for the Rose Parade in the morning. We are enjoying New Years Eve in an empty apartment, sitting on little chairs we found outside, preparing our air mattress… Read more

  • Leaving the Butter Belt for LaLa Land

    We are packed and ready to go. The movers will be here in the morning, so we are down to our last night in our house. This will be my last blog for a couple of weeks because I won’t have the computer to write on until they reconnect us after the furniture is unpacked.… Read more