If Prince William asks for a groom’s cake to be made from the McVitie’s company, perhaps the little Digestive biscuits I’ve been eating for 20+ years aren’t something to sneer at.
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If I put Prince William’s name in this title, will it count as part of the world-wide buzz?
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Emotions/Inner World, Friendship, Reminiscences, Travel on May 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
More pie, please
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Family, Husbands, Reminiscences, Travel on April 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other night I was waxing nostalgic about lemon meringue pies. I had made some cookies and for the first time used lemon curd as a filling rather than jam, and the flavor sent me right back to family road trips for lemon meringue pie. Fried perch and then lemon meringue pie, to be exact. […]
Advice to a New Mother
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Emotions/Inner World, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Women on February 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was at a baby shower for a new Mom who, that day, had reached 37 weeks. Such an accomplishment, those first 37 weeks. She’s already mothered her young one, already sacrificed for (his or her, the parents don’t know) sake, has curtailed her activities and her work, even to the point of bed-rest for […]
Winter Wonderland
Posted in Children, Cooking/Food & Wine, Friendship, Natural World, Photos, Reminiscences, Travel, Writing on December 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on a weekend snow trip, which, for those who know me, is a strange thing to hear from me. Having grown up with snow, then choosing to leave it, I am not usually one who seeks out how to return to it.
Sweet Memories
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Friendship, Reminiscences, Romance on December 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A friend told me she made an old recipe recently: Betty Crocker’s “Bonnie Butter Cake.” As there was no actual person named Betty Crocker, perhaps she never had a friend named Bonnie for whom this yellow cake is named. I hadn’t thought of that cake for years – ok, maybe decades – but just its […]