Chocolate Castles

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

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

A very dear friend, Peggy Stodola gave me this recipe a couple of months ago and I think I have already made it probably 7-8 or 9 times already. It has become one of my all time favorite cookies. I don’t add the bacon, well, to be honest. I save our expensive bacon for the… Read more

Was getting ready to make the normal ole chocolate pound cake when a thought came to me. Thursday I had made a pineapple upside down cake for a dinner downstairs, so the concept of the butter/brown sugar under the cake batter came to mind! So….I began to think of how good the butter/brown sugar with… Read more

Sometimes you just wake up and think “cereal, or fruit shakes, or eggs, toast, just doesn’t sound good today! maybe an old fashioned popover with fresh fruit will hit the spot!” And spot it did hit. Had not made them since last winter, but they were so good and with the fresh blueberries and maple… Read more

We go downstairs to play Mexican train sometimes on Tuesday , so it isn’t fun to sit there with a stuffed tummy while trying to choose the right domino! Besides I’m taking down some of the lemon minis I made yesterday for us to snack on! So today since I didn’t want to go down… Read more