My cup of tea ;-)

I like a cup of tea in the afternoon or after dinner–well, not after dinner–in the evening after the kitchen is as clean as it will get and the kids are in bed.  After all of that sometimes I use the tea as mere aromatherapy . . . some days I’m just too tired to…

Pumpkins, Apples, Rasberries, Oh My!

This summer was going to be my summer to finally start my “big garden”.  I’ve always planted lots of herbs and tomatoes but I wanted more veggies so that I could can my own spaghetti sauce, ketchup, and pickles.  This garden project turned into a little like the book “If you give a mouse a…

Top Ten Make-Ahead-Meals

I love to cook and I really love to have biggish get togethers with friends and family.  Since we moved I’ve been a little slow to get back into the swing of it–one of my goals for 2013 is to have more dinners with friends. Here is my top ten list of dinner ideas to feed…