Valentine's Day is a month away now, so I figure I can start making Valentine's Day treats.  Because one can never have too many of those, right?  When I was little, I loved the candy part of Valentine's Day the mo ...

I have always loved all things lemon when it comes to dessert. Growing up, I loved those tart lemon curd bars with the powdered sugar on top, and lemon poppy seed muffins, or a good lemon meringue pie.  I think I ge ...

We went from 40F degrees here at the beginning of the week to a cold snap of below zero temps in a matter of one day.  It is kind of a shock to the system, and sometimes I wonder how as a high schooler I spent every ...

Lavender is one of my favorite scents.  Next to vanilla, it is something that I enjoy using the essential oil of fairly often for scenting my personal products (like lotions, deodorants, and shampoo), as well as put ...

Now that we are past the shortest day of the year, and we are into January, I feel like things are looking up.  Not that the Holidays were bad or anything.  I am just one of those people who likes to not have to wo ...

I recently watched an episode of America's Test Kitchen when I was downstairs running on my treadmill on a Saturday morning (that is what I usually do on weekends while I work out, watch cooking shows to get ideas fo ...

When we get to the end of the year, sometimes I decide that I need to make a recipe that I have had in my head for a while, yet never got around to making.  Well, this year it was a waffle cake.  I have been wantin ...