This has been an exciting week for me! I am so happy to let you know that I am going to write a second cookbook! It will be another book about pies, because you can’t have too much pie I suppose, but this book will be different than the last in that it will focus [...]
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
The last few days have been a roller coaster ride for me. The biggest positive of the week … Everything Pie is written!! Going in I knew writing a book would be a challenge, but it was more difficult than I expected. The rewards of this experience are numerous, but the biggest lessons I take [...]
Friday, January 28, 2011
When I have a bad, or stressful day, or when I have an especially good day, I like to treat myself. In the case of this recipe I was having a bad day. It was the last day of a rather bad week, actually and I was in need of something really evil to sooth [...]
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Let’s just get this out of the way. I need cookies. Something about a cookie just makes me feel, when the stress of the season threatens to be my undoing, that everything will be ok, nothing is that bad, and I can cope. My flavor of the moment is chocolate and peanut butter. It is [...]
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
I love things that look difficult but are in fact quite easy. Soufflé is one of those desserts that people assume is terribly difficult to make. I think it goes back to cartoons and movies where someone is making a soufflé that comes out tall and perfect only to have it collapse in spectacular fashion. [...]
Monday, August 16, 2010
When it is hot out I find lime to be most refreshing. Even in cookie form, lime flavored treats seem to taste the best when the temperature outside starts to soar. We are in the middle of a heat wave in the Dallas area, so I am all about refreshing at the moment. Since I [...]
Friday, May 28, 2010
I love bundt cakes! I think it is the fact that they could go right out of the pan and need little more than a glaze, or a dusting of powdered sugar, to be ready to serve. Growing up we used to have bundt cakes at most family gatherings. At some point they fell out [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Ready for some new shenanigans? How about we start with pie? When I first started cooking I used to make something called “Oreo Pie”. It was made with an Oreo crust, chocolate and vanilla instant pudding, and whipped topping. It was easy, it tasted pretty good, and when sliced it looked fairly impressive. That pie [...]
Friday, April 3, 2009
Today is my birthday!! I won’t tell you how old I am … that would just depress me. But, I will tell you what does not depress me … Cupcakes! Especially when they are in fun red liners from acupcakery.com!! Red is my absolute favorite color, and the liners stayed nice and bright after [...]
Monday, March 9, 2009
First a bit of something fun! I would like to thank Jess and Lyns at All Things Cupcake who selected me as one of the Cupcake Talent Picks of the Week! All Things Cupcake features loads of beautiful cupcake pictures, as well as other awesome cupcake related items. Check it out, and thanks again for choosing [...]
Friday, July 29, 2011
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