Check out these great little tags via www.deliciousdays.com! Perfect for my upcoming homemade Christmas presents. Love this site!

Holiday Gift Tags (Link)

A good dinner is of great importance to good talk. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf

Step Out of the Bottle and Into the Box

Okay, so when I think of boxed wine, a specific episode of Seinfeld  (my favorite show) always comes to mind.  It’s the one where Jerry is dating a woman with a fabulous toy collection, but she won’t allow him to play with it.  His solution: feed her turkey and serve glass after glass of red

I cannot wait to try this!

Pretzel Ice Cream!!

Salt & Pepper Chicken Thighs

YUM!  Via: gocookyourself: 4 Chicken Thighs (Skin On, Bone In) / Salt / Pepper / Oil PLACE chicken on clean board skin down SCORE flesh of chicken DO NOT cut all the way through the skin! SEASON generously with salt and pepper TURN chicken over and season again HEAT griddle pan on hob RUB oil into chicken and season again PLACE chicken

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: “Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get

Just gorgeous!!  Courtesy of: frenchcuisse: INGREDIENTS.

This is my previous blog in which I wrote for only one short year.

Hold Very Still

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” ― Julia Child

Thankful for Non-Traditions

I think about food all the time.  I ponder.  I daydream.  I plan and strategize.  For a person such as myself, Thanksgiving is the decathlon of holidays.  I train for this event in little ways throughout the year to prepare for the big day.  I bake bread, cakes, and pies – inevitably covering the kitchen