Drink Up!Thank you all so much for another fabulous online year. This whole blogging thing continues to amaze and surprise and delight me—I just love it. Here’s hoping fo find even more time to share…

Happy new year, everyone! (I know it’s not quite 2010 for all of you yet though!)

A few weeks ago, Jac fired up the barbecue and cooked chicken sausages, onions and potatoes on it.

She sliced…

So here we are on the last day of 2009.  While just like a birthday, the new year is nothing more than a different page on the calendar.  But is it?  Isn’t it more?  To me, just like a new…

and in with the new! Happy New Year!2009 was certainly a roller coaster, with many highs and too many lows… Jeff and I are definitely looking forward to a fresh new year. This year we prepared over…

Craig’s sister Kristin and I joke that I should have a catchphrase, that when I meet new people I should declare, with mock-sincerity: “Food is my passion.” Ok, maybe you have to be there for that…

Sometimes, if you’re standing in the right place, with your eyes open, you see something you never expected.Every day, as we drive in the car, rounding the curve past that row of mailboxes, just before…

Last week, while the snow fell wildly in New York, we turned back the clocks inside and celebrated Christmas like we imagined some might have decades ago.Inspired by a few of my recent vintage cookbook…

New Year’s Eve is the time for looking back on goals, and for years I’ve had a goal of creating a special index for all the South Beach Diet Phase One recipes that I’ve cooked and featured on Kalyn’s…

We had muffins again this morning.

Fuzz agreed to pose with one.

Then “Yoink!”

Lizzie jumped up and grabbed it. She knows better, but we were asking for it holding the muffin up like that. Luckily,…

Today Mom and I went over to Create a Cook to finish setting up for the party we are having tomorrow with family and friends.  Our 'Christmas' always happens a week late because that is when…