Grandma's Cooking School: Chocolate Crepes 26 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm

This was originally posted on March 8, 2010 on Cooking for Seven. Because these lessons were such an important part of my life, I will be re-posting them here. {Grandma’s Cooking School is my chronic...

Hearty Pasta Sauce From Scratch 21 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm

Pasta is one of those things that's just hard to mess up. As long as you start with good ingredients, you're sure to end with something delicious. While at the farmers market the other day, I was ins...

Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream 12 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm

Homemade ice cream used to be such a long, tedious process for me. First, you must slave over a hot stove making custard. Then you have to wait hours for said custard to cool completely so you can chu...

Homemade Chocolate Pudding 6 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm

Pudding is just one of those things that's best when homemade. In fact, I can't stand store-bought pudding. Even when I was a little girl, those pudding cups that come in plastic containers were repul...

Lunch/Supper Idea: Bacon, Avocado and Tomato Sandwich 29 Jul 2013 | 07:30 pm

No sandwich speaks of late summer to me more than a BLT. It became a tradition at my family's house to have corn on the cob (fresh from Mom's garden) and BLT's near the end of summer (that's when the ...

Buttermilk Oatmeal Bread 16 Jul 2013 | 09:38 pm

Since I don't own a stand mixer (we're working on that), I often avoid making bread that requires kneading. Instead, I opt for a no-knead bread, which is quite good, but sometimes you just need a slic...

Grandma's Cooking School: Banana Cream Pie 8 Jul 2013 | 07:07 pm

This was originally posted on February 10, 2010 on Cooking for Seven. Because these lessons were such an important part of my life, I will be re-posting them here. {Grandma’s Cooking School is my chr...

Sparkling Strawberry Jasmine Green Tea 1 Jul 2013 | 07:30 pm

So. Our house flooded. At six thirty in the morning we heard Grandpa calling from upstairs (we live in the basement apartment of Reuben's grandparents' house). At first we thought one of them ha...

Wordless Wednesday: Tea + English Muffin 26 Jun 2013 | 07:30 pm

Big News! 25 Jun 2013 | 06:18 pm

Hello everyone! I know I’ve been MIA for over 2 months. This is partly because being a mom is very time-consuming - if you had a choice between making and photographing a delicious recipe while your ...