Feeling down?  Bake cookies!

There are days that I sit down to write my column knowing exactly what my subject is going to be.  There are other days when I have a vague idea; it just needs to be fleshed out.  Still other days I am praying for a story to put with the recipes I have gathered.  My...

Apples, apples, and more apples!

What better month of the year to designate as National Apple Month than October!  Business is brisk at the local orchards as lots of folks flock there to purchase their favorite apple varieties.  I went to one fairly close to me last week to obtain some Jonagolds....

Pizza, please!

I learned creative cooking from my mother.  Or maybe I should say, I often observed my mother cooking creatively.  I don’t think it is something that can be taught; one has to have a natural ability to be able to do so.  There are some people who should just follow a...

Begin your day with breakfast

“Into each life some rain must fall” is a line from a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  The same lyric is also declared in a song featuring Ella Fitzgerald and the Inkspots.  Both of these depict a hard season of existence.  However, there is another way to...

A sweeter life

September is National Honey Month.  As I was looking through my recipes that include this sweet substance, I couldn’t help but be reminded that for me, the sweetest thing in life is the presence of God.  I love the ways He shows up to remind me that He is there, even...