As Christmas approaches I notice my days getting increasingly hectic. Get up, throw in a load of laundry, drink coffee, clean up house a little bit, shower, cookies, wrapping, more laundry, dinner, shopping, etc. until bed only to get up at the same time the next morning to do it all again. I’m sure that I am not the [more]

“OMG I didn’t make enough cookies!” — words never uttered in this house. Usually, somewhere in mid-February I give up and end up tossing the remainder of Christmas cookies that I have not been able to pass off to relatives or friends. However, I know not everyone find such joy in baking like I do. With [more]

Everyone makes a basic sugar cookie at Christmas. Sadly over the last few years it seems every single time I encounter a sugar cookie, it has been made from a Betty Crocker mix… if not just from a Pillsbury slicing cookie roll. Please throw those away. For the love of good food do not pass off [more]

I’ve been off caffeine for a while now. I don’t miss it too much. The one place I really miss caffeine is iced tea. I have a few good herbal teas that make decent iced tea, but good southern sweet tea just hasn’t been a possibility. Decaffeinated tea just tastes a little off to me. While I was brainstorming [more]

Yesterday I was on a quest to find a cookie with a new grain. It took me to Italy. Now I love Italian food, don’t get me wrong, they make some really great things, but so do a lot of other European nations. I’ve been thinking about making a Turkish dish since seeing a Huffington Post story where they asked [more]