So I thought I would post something that is a bit of a departure from my usual fair. I just...

A friend of mine wrote to me over Christmas, and described her year in review as the year that she broke up with her boyfriend, her dog died, and she'd had a root canal. But, she added, if she was looking at it through my eyes, she'd say she now had the...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about experimenting with a recipe that replaced shortening in brownies with an equivalent amount of black beans. I first noticed the recipe on Heidi Swanson’s wonderful Web site 101 Cookbooks. Heidi wished she had created the...

Is it safe? Yes, I said those famous three words. In fact, it happened this morning,...

I just marked the first morning of my "empty nest" with a piece of chocolate cake for breakfast....

What a year! I can't believe it's time to carve the turkey, serve the cranberry sauce and collapse on the couch to sleep the big feast off. Or is that just what happens in my house?I truly am thankful for so many blessings, and I'd like to take a minute...