Where to even begin...a lot has happened since my last post. I moved to North Carolina, married off both daughters and welcomed two grand da...

easy cinnamon rolls saturday morning...getting ready to bake some scones and the little one requests cinnamon rolls :)  how can you say ...

scones....i love them....i am not sure tilly ever had a scone .....they were not in our family food repertoire....i don't think i ev...

death by chocolate pumpkin cheesecake for thanksgiving dessert This is from the Death by Chocolate cook book by Marcel Desaulneire...

crunchy warm muffins for a cold april day its a chilly april morning...happens to be april fools day....and the furnace decided to take...

nigella lawson's cream-cheese brownies ok are you ready for part 2? these are my favorite...a little chocolate cheesecake action i...

there are lots and lots of ways to make brownies...i like them chocolaty, not too gooey always with pecans never walnuts...... sometimes wit...

sticky bun heaven i have tried lots of ways to make the classic cinnamon raisin sticky buns.....the "popping fresh kind"  (n...

the cookie recipe is already posted with the easter shapes on the blog....kelsey works her magic with the royal icing.......they are too ...

ginger cocoa crisps 20 years ago brit got off the school bus with a baggie of cookies and an illustrated recipe.  she was really e...

this is one of the christmas cookies i remember watching my norwegian mother in law lillian bake....the recipe is hers.   it is simple but w...

it's high summer .....i love it...the weather has been great in new england ....the local produce at the markets is lovely.  lars has a ...

i have made lots of  cookies over the years...mostly around the holidays.  my cookie mentor was not tilly though, it was my mother in law li...

tilly used to grow rhubarb in her garden.....all along the stone wall there was mint and rhubarb growing like crazy and trying to take over...

twenty years ago i dragged the girls and my two sisters to a work picnic.....back when i worked as a head nurse for our local community hosp...

a homemade dessert is like a hug.....it can be a personal signature.....  a little message that says "i care enough about you to make y...

i saw tyler florence make this on tv.  i have never tried to make a flourless chocolate cake...it looked so easy to make and fantastically d...

every holiday my daughter kelsey makes some kind of cut out cookies.  for this endeavor I am the sous chef.  i help set up, clean up, fetch ...