This Must Be the Place

I have made, over the years, rather a lot of lemon cakes. There's the lemon cake to impress and the demure little lemon cake and the l...

Just a day after I said I don't cook much right now, what did I end up doing but cooking dinner for a visiting friend. The dinner was B...

Must apologize for the neglect around here. I've spent most of the past couple of weeks engaged in yet another rewrite of the novel'...

This was another office birthday effort, and alas it is likely to be the last one. The group is getting bigger, and I find myself lacking th...

Yet another one from The Cake Book. Why yes I do like pound cakes. They're not fussy and they are awesome. This one is a little fussie...

I didn't name it, okay? I did make it for our latest office birthday. I've been slacking a little in that department, not having the...

This was the first recipe I've tried from The Cake Book.  I thought I had a close to perfect chocolate pound cake already, but this one ...

The second recipe I tried within a week from Tish Boyle 's The Cake Book,  this one was made for an office birthday and got excellent re...

OK, so it's been ages since I posted here. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Been busy with other projects this past week. But we did have a party la...

I do still cook. Really! This is a cake I first made for our Cuban-themed supper club (since the only alternative I could find was Cuban Ope...

Honestly, you would think I lived on the things. Which I don't. But at some point in the recent past (seriously, I am losing track of th...

It was a celebration that almost didn't happen. Thursday night while D was at church, I called L to the table for her bedtime snack. ...

OK, so I am way behind on my blogging. The kids have been passing a cold and a stomach bug around, which cut into the time I had hoped to u...

Of all the times to misplace my camera. To start the weekend properly, on Friday... it was a long week. So on Friday night I made a chocolat...

The last office birthday of the year would just have to be my boss'. I just did a layer cake and a torte for the other two that fall dur...

Another week, another co-worker birthday; they're thick this time of year. And another awesome Cake Bible cake. When the first thing any...

"OMG. So yummy." "Wow… that is DELICIOUS!" "YUM!!" "Thanks for sharing the delicious apple cake!" An...

I've been meaning to post this for weeks now--it's the recipe I used to make L's birthday cake, and it was not only the best cho...

A rare and wonderful day spent with friends. They recently bought a house in a neighboring state, so getting together will involve more plan...

The frazzling began late Saturday night, when out of nowhere JJ started throwing up. Now, this child spits up right and left, but had never ...