Canned Laughter

I don’t know about you, but I am ready for school to be over. This is the last week for my kids and they are getting harder to wake up and get out of the house on time every day. Today I’m trying a little aromatherapy on them.
This rich-tasting coffee cake is a wonderful eye-opener [...]

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Easter is over, you were careful to keep the children’s Easter eggs refrigerated for safety, and now you have four dozen gorgeous Easter Eggs in your fridge.  How in the world are you going to be able to use them all before they go bad?* Before you sigh thinking of endless egg salad sandwich lunches, [...]

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Today I’m baking Hot Cross Buns over at Blissfully Delish.
Did you jump rope to this rhyme as a child?
Hot-cross buns! Hot-cross buns! One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns! If you have no daughters, Give them to your sons, One a penny, two a penny, Hot-cross buns! If you have none/ Of these little [...]

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Hot Cross Buns
These are an Easter morning favorite in our home.  Makes 12.

1/3 cup Sugar
1/2 cup lukewarm Milk
1/2 cup lukewarm Water
2  packages 1/4 oz. dry active Yeast
3 cups unbleached Flour
1 teaspoon Salt
pinch each: ground Cinnamon, Cloves and Nutmeg
4 tablespoons Butter, melted and cooled
1 large Egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup Currants
1/3 cup Candied Mixed Peel
2 tablespoons Honey, [...]

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Sunday Morning Bread Pudding
This recipe is perfect for weekend house-guests. It’s simple, elegant and clean up is a breeze. Oh, and did I mention that it is delicious? Give it a try and your guests will be coming back for more.

6 cups cubed, stale White Bread
1 cup Golden Raisins
3 large Eggs
1 cup Sugar
2 cups Milk
grated [...]

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Angela had a brilliant idea. It’s the First Annual Fluid Pudding BreadPuddingAlong! The idea is simple. A lot of us get the Spring Blues (myself included) and we crave comfort food. Since nothing is more comforting that an old fashioned bread pudding, she proposed that we all make one this past weekend.  Here’s how [...]

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Who else is going to give you a recipe with instructions like “whirrrr!” and “dump”? Nobody. So come peek at my cheap and decadently delish Swedish Meatballs recipe over at Blissfully Domestic.  I’d love to read your comments over there (especially you Ikea meatball enthusiasts).

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How do I make dinners from scratch when I have  one hour or less for prep and cooking? Well, I could take shortcuts like buying pre-packaged foods but that gets very expensive and I’m stingy to my soul.  I could spend my weekends preparing meals to freeze for the week but really, I have too [...]

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If your Valentine is a chocoholic like mine, check out my easy chocolate souffle recipe here. Many thanks to Blissfully Domestic on-line magazine for publishing it.

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This Valentines Day, wow him with a Chocolate Souffle.
We’ve all seen the funny movies with the chef crying over fallen souffles.  Snooty waiters inform us that a souffle requires two days notice and a hefty tip.  Shhh… I’m going to tell you a secret:
You can make a simple, stress free souffle at home.
The trick to [...]

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