If you’ve ever had a Facebook account, a Twitter account, or even just an email account, the chances are that at some point in time you have received the forward about the Neiman-Marcus $250 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. It isn’t always Nieman-Marcus. Sometimes it’s Woolworths, sometimes it’s Mrs. Fields, but the story itself remains the… Continue reading “Neiman-Marcus” $250 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! If you’re here for my Thanksgiving Turkey post, and the pictures look a little different, do not be confused, for I have updated them from the pictures I took in the dark with a camera sitting on a book on my kitchen counter 4 years ago. Remember that scene in National Lampoon’s… Continue reading How to Cook a Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey (with photo directions)
Okay, it’s the first week of November, so most of us have a ton of Halloween candy that we need to get OUT OF OUR HOUSE NOW!!! My kids are 3 1/2 and 1 1/2, so this is the first year they have really brought in a good haul. So now it’s time to get… Continue reading Peanut Butter Peek-a-boo Cookies
Before we moved about a year and a half ago, my husband and I lived for 6 years about a block from Than Brothers, which is the best Pho on the face of the earth. We would go in there all the time to be served steaming hot bowls of noodle soup with chicken and… Continue reading Vietnamese Iced Coffee
You know the old cartoons where somebody like Daffy Duck would be thinking about his next move, and he’d have a little devil on one shoulder and a little angel on the other shoulder, each telling him what to do? I have those too, but not a devil and an angel. My life is a… Continue reading Starbucks Pumpkin Pound Cake
Last night, we carved our pumpkins. Always an adventure with a 3 year old and a 1 year old. After we had finished, and the pumpkins were all lit up on our porch, my daughter and I set about the icky but necessary task of separating the stringy orange pumpkin guts from the seeds so… Continue reading How to Roast Perfect Pumpkin Seeds
There is something wonderful and comforting about homemade fried donuts. I almost feel like I need to put quotations around “homemade” because, while you make them at home, you use refrigerated biscuit dough, so these are really cheater donuts. Either way, there is something wonderful and comforting about deep fried biscuit dough, dunked in a… Continue reading Pumpkin Spice Donut Holes
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