I love cooking for anyone actually but especially friends and this special friend Cristina  loves to cook as much as I do.  For years and ye...

How often do you need a centerpiece of hot pink, orange, yellow and lime green... Not often and luckily I had all those colors in my garde...

I had asked for suggestions for new things to paint on buttons and two I received were a panda and raggedy ann and andy... so I gave them a ...

I had to think a bit in how to pull all this together because this post really has three separate threads that end up weaving together. Fi...

With the bad weather, being gone and being sick it has been more than a month since I have fixed a "company" meal and I  am on Sun...

  Sometimes I plan to write an update on a post only to learn I never blogged about it in the first place.  Such is the case with "...

We went to London in 2015 and fell in love with   Beef and Ale  pies in the pubs.  On return I started making them at home when I found a re...

For years and years I've tried various gnocchi (little potato dumplings) recipes and they have always turned out gummy, dense, and rub...

I hate trying to peel or cut up a squash so for the last 60 years I have prepared squash the same way... baking it whole.  I stick the who...

The August cqjp2015 block was fun because I was able to find a use for some funky 3-D rose fabric I have had in my stash "f o r e v e r...