The creative cooking escape of a busy mama in Army Boots.
Happy day after Thanksgiving! I'm pretty sure my house is not the only house where we're having the Christmas debate. As in how soon we can get away with putting up the Christmas decorations, listening to the Christmas music, and basically letting our inner elves take over to get the most out of the season [...]
If you spend enough time in the kitchen, you can cook pretty much any recipe that someone brings you. You get used to cooking off scribbled instructions, yelled adjustments, and intuition. And a lot of other random things. You learn that "all day" means that if there are three fillets "all day," there are three [...]
Okay, maybe I spoke too soon about that spring weather coming in. This week lulled us into a false sense of security. Mid-40s all week until yesterday, and then the cold set in. But that's how it goes. Winter is that angry friend who goes to the door again and again and keeps turning back, [...]
I received a copious amount of brown sugar from Dixie Crystals as part of the Third Annual Good Cookies Food Bloggers' Valentine's Event. The decision to craft a recipe around their generous gift, however, was my own. It's a terrific day to talk about dessert! Wait - isn't every day a good day to talk [...]
What, another cookie recipe, right on the heels of my delicious gingerbread? Why not? It's cookie baking season, and while I've got a ton of good ones to share, these are a particular favorite. They're my Lofthouse knock-off cookies that ended up being better than Lofthouse {IMHO, of course}. Probably because they're soft, fresh, buttery, and can [...]
In this season of frenetic cookie baking, we need a variety of cookies, but we especially need ones that travel well. And if you're looking for something deliciously seasonal that will survive a trip to faraway friends and relatives, my family's classic gingerbread cookie recipe is the one for you! When I was deployed in [...]
We used to have a hard and fast rule in the house about when the Christmas decorations went up and when the Christmas playlists started playing and all the rest :: no Christmas until the weekend after Thanksgiving. We kept everything tucked away in storage tubs and didn't go hunting for a Christmas tree and [...]
