Vintage cookbooks are kitchen eye-candy. They set high upon the shelves, in their colorful jackets, challenging modern gals to attain the skills acquired by the cooks that came before them. With all the recipes available online, why would anyone want a REAL cookbook? It is convenient to get Continue Reading
Becoming a Holiday Meal Matriarch
For the past eight years or so, we have been cooking Thanksgiving dinner at our house, as opposed to going to other people's houses to eat their food. Once I turned forty I figured I needed to at least know how to cook turkey and all of the trimmings for the traditional holiday meal. When I was Continue Reading
Dork Diaries Cake
Today I am attempting to make a Dork Diaries cake for my daughter's 12th birthday (The Dork Diaries are popular books for adolescent and pre-teen girls). I wish that I could be one of those fondant-flipping devas that whip out smooth, picture-perfect cakes. But, I'm not. I prefer to make my Continue Reading