Just Baking

For those of you in the US and who have the four seasons, can you believe that we are knee deep into Fall now? Where in the world does the time go? As much as I love all the summertime flavors, with fresh veggies and cool treats, I do love the comforting flavors of Fall. […]

My very best friend is moving out of state on Friday. Ami and I have known each other for 13 years… we met during my Freshman year of college and have been great friends ever since. She has been there for me through a lot and has always been one of the constants in my […]

I am sure many of you are familiar with Dale Carnegie’s best selling book How to Win Friends and Influence People. His book is one of those books that is a must read for business professionals. In this best selling book, Dale Carnegie lists six ways to make people like you. Those six things are:
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When you sit down to a nice meal, what do you look forward to the most? Is it the main course, the salad, the dessert? I do look forward to all of those things, but the one thing I really look forward to is the bread. I’m a bread girl…I love my carbs. Crusty bread, […]

My baby started Kindergarten today and over the weekend, I had myself all worked up about it. In my mind, I had imagined every “worst case scenario” and had cried buckets of tears stressing about the “First Day of Kindergarten Event”. I told myself to hold it together this morning…no matter what, I could not […]

We all have them…those recipes that we sneak ingredients into. I am always trying to sneak vegetables into my kids food in one way or another. Some people like to dice up vegetables and put them in their pasta sauce, hoping the picky eater in the family won’t notice. Others use jarred baby food and […]

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I know that this is completely against all things good about the feminist movement, but I have always wanted to be like June Cleaver, or our modern day example, (minus all of […]

I have never been a huge fan of peanut butter cookies. It isn’t that I don’t like the flavor of them… it is just that they are so inconsistent. You never know what you are going to get when you bite into a homemade peanut butter cookie. Is it going to be crunchy? Will it […]

I know you all have been there. You are standing in the checkout lane of a grocery store and a magazine photo catches your eye. Maybe it is one with the current celebrity gossip. Maybe you are more of the House and Garden type and spot a cover with a gorgeous room makeover. If you […]

There used to be a time when I did not see the point of making homemade cookies. Why bother with all the trouble when you can get refrigerated cookie dough? What could be easier than snipping open the package, slicing some dough and then baking them? Why would I want to go through the hassle […]