Cooking! Kathy’s “Dump It in a Pot” Chili

This is one of my all-time favorite go-to meals–chili! Now, I am not by any means a chili purist. I like my chili completely full of yummy beans, and I am completely laissez faire about the meat. Nonetheless, this is pretty much the easiest, fastest chili to make; it makes great leftovers, it freezes wonderfully; [...]

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Bloggin’ Again: Cupcakes

Well, it looks like I am somehow making not blogging a habit. Funny how it is. I feel all motivated, and then, whoops, there it goes out the window. 12 Days of Cookie-mas, well, it ended up being only five. That was due to my hurting my back and being laid-up for a couple of [...]

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The Fifth Day of Cookie-mas: Snickerdoodles

“On the fifth day of Cookie-mas my oven and I made: five snickerdoodles! Four honey lemon cookies, three chocolate crinkles, two peanut butter cookies, and crunchy sandy almond cookies“ Well, Christmas panic is finally setting in. I realized today that there are only two more weeks and a day until Christmas. I still have so much to do: [...]

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The Fourth Day of Cookie-mas: Honey Lemon Cookies

“On the fourth day of Cookie-mas my oven and I made: four honey lemon cookies, three chocolate crinkles, two peanut butter cookies, and crunchy sandy almond cookies“ Oh my gosh, this is actually happening! We’re one-third done with Cookie-mas! Yum! And I’ve yet to have any catastrophic cookie failures, so I’ve got that going for me. This recipe [...]

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The Third Day of Cookie-mas: Chocolate Crinkles

“On the third day of Cookie-mas my oven and I made: three chocolate crinkles, two peanut butter cookies, and crunchy sandy almond cookies“ If there is any food I love more than chocolate, I can’t think of one! Chocolate ice cream, chocolate cake, chocolate candy; it’s all wonderful! So of course a chocolate cookie had [...]

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