Hello dear friends! Before I leave you in 2008 I am going to give you my recipe for my preferred NYE cocktail. I started off with a suitcase of champagne, roughly the size of a small dog. It was a lovely gift from a vendor. He knows me well.
Inside was a bottle of champagne [...]

I don’t have a lot to say about 2008, looking back. There are, of course, things I wish I had done better, handled with more aplomb (I’m looking at you Thanksgiving meltdown of ‘08). But as the year fizzles, finding me typing this at my desk, using my arm with the broken elbow (stupid!), there [...]

From my family to yours!

to be sung to the tune of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Who’ll Stop the Rain
Whole month of December, bad luck’s been in town.Matty had a seizure, shaking on the ground.Heart’s been through the ringer, all these chilly days.And I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the PAIN?
Biopsied for cancer, stitches on my leg.Grandparents ‘neath the weather, [...]

This has not been a great month, but it is getting worse. My maternal grandfather is in the hospital and has been since Monday. I just found out last night, but that’s a whole other ball of wax. He has kidney cancer and was going in for a procedure, but the pain was so bad [...]

As I mentioned, this week was a doozy, ending with a BANG. Literally, it seems, as my husband scraped the car along a pillar in the garage while he was parking. We just cannot catch a break it seems! One of my favorite ways to de-stress, besides going to a great party hosted by my [...]

I totally owe you so much more than this, but, Dear Reader, I’m pooped. This week has been a parade of horribles and I have not had the strength to write about it. I’ve been struck down by a case of temporary narcolepsy, falling asleep on the subway, on my couch at embarrassingly early times [...]

Honestly, it’s the icing that makes this cake. Carmelized buttercream icing? You had me at “hello.”
Allow me to make some introductions. The recipe this month is from Shuna Fish Lydon, of Eggbeater. Our hostess of the month is Dolores of Culinary Curiosity, kindly assisted by Alex (Brownie of the Blondie and Brownie duo), and Jenny [...]