It appears that summer may be skipping the pacific northwest this year. I think our average high has been about 70. This is not a complaint, on the contrary, I’m super happy about it, I’m just telling it like it is. Hopefully it will mean lots and lots of snow for us in the fall… Continue reading Applesauce Bars with Cream Cheese Frosting
A thousand apologies, oh patient ones. I have been completely distracted from blogging activities by my discovery of Game of Thrones. If there are two things I’m just not into when it comes to entertainment, it’s fantasy and gratuitous gore and violence. The fact the Game of Thrones is full of dragons, armies of dead… Continue reading Homemade Cinnamon Applesauce
This is one of those vintage recipes from forever ago that has stood the test of time. I remembered my mother-in-law posting a recipe for it on Facebook a few months back, and saying they used to make this all the time and she loved it, so when I was planning her birthday dinner this month,… Continue reading Pineapple Sunshine Cake
Years ago, my friend Lisa brought Cowboy Quiche to a baby shower and I fell in love, but never actually made it until this year. You see, usually when I host brunches, I am hosting for other people and they usually have favorite foods that I try to make for them. This year though, I… Continue reading Cowboy Quiche
Almost once a week, I either host or attend a “tea party” with my mom, my sister, my great-nanny, my kids, and occasionally other random guests. By “tea party,” I mean we brew a couple pots of English breakfast tea, serve some kind of pastry dish, like cookies or scones or butterhorns or even crumpets,… Continue reading Easy Cherry Danish
Summer means lots of salads to me. Pasta salads, potato salads, broccoli salads. Anything quick and easy that can go with grilled meat. It’s been super hot here in Seattle the last few summers and I am a grump about heat. Nobody here has air conditioning! Do you know how miserable it is to sit… Continue reading Best Broccoli Salad. Ever.
Move over, guacamole. I am guessing that this amazing dip would be “caviar” to anybody, cowboys or otherwise. We are going camping in Leavenworth this weekend, and one of my favorite things to do at the place where I spent so many childhood summers, is to sit under the shade of the big apple tree, in the field… Continue reading Cowboy Caviar
Rumbly in my Tumbly 