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Yay!! Tomorrow is one of the best days of the year. Spring ahead! When I was a kid, the best day of the year was Christmas or my birthday. Hmmph. Not anymore! As the years move on, so does the quest for warm weather and sunlight. I live in the northeast and am stuck here [...]

This coming Monday is President’s Day so in honor of dear ole George I am posting a great recipe for Cherry Chocolate Cookies handed to me by my friend Brigitte. Yum. They are easy to make, delicious to eat, and everyone needs a reason to indulge in something sweet. Well, not everyone, because I often [...]

A while back one of my dear friends introduced me to the wonderful taste of Nutella. I wish she hadn’t as I really cannot have it in my house as I have no self control and could easily devour the entire jar in a week. Tomorrow is the last day of school for the year.  [...]

Today was a professional development day, better known as a half day for kids, work for the teachers, but in our school it is BEST known for food. Yep, that’s right! You may be thinking that the teachers in our district get a lot of training so therefore the kids must be a lot smarter. [...]

For some odd reason I have always been attracted to the taste of lemons. When I was pregnant with any of my boys, I craved lemon. I loved the taste of it and the coolness and zingy feeling that penetrated my taste buds. I would sometimes make a lemon meringue pie without the crust and [...]

I love to have friends over so why don’t I have them over more often? No clue. But I do have a clue to a yummy dessert to serve when guests do come over, especially when you don’t want their hands to get sticky. (Not that I have friends that don’t know how to eat [...]

Today is one of those bittersweet winter days as there is no school due to an impending storm which in itself is a wonderful thing, but on the other hand, come June, this snowday really puts a damper on having an early summer vacation! I guess you can’t have it all. But wait! Today, February [...]

Today was our monthly pastry club day. As always there were 2 excellent desserts, a carrot cake and chocolate brownie bar. The person, Sue, who brought in the brownie dessert told me exactly how she made it and whoa, easy!!!!! One of my coworkers, Edward, thought these were very incredible. Just look at the picture! [...]

I was brought up on cookies, homemade, delicious ones that permeate the air while they are baking. Nothing says home like the aroma of fresh baked cookies. Well, I guess that’s not totally true as baking apple pie with cinnamon does a great job of providing a tantalizing effect on the senses!  I am usually [...]

Here is the one of the easiest recipes to make a delicious light dessert with few calories. It is a Weight Watcher recipe that I received from a friend, Phyl. It is light and fluffy and if you are counting points, 1/12 of it is 4 points. I am not on Weight Watchers but agree [...]