by Sara Ray | Jan 17, 2018 | Cooks' Corner
I have been getting recipes ready for Pie Day, which is January 23rd. Internet research tells me that “it was created simply to celebrate the pie” (Nationaldaycalendar.com). How should one celebrate this special occasion? If you like to bake, make a pie. If you...
by Sara Ray | Jan 10, 2018 | Cooks' Corner
Elijah, the youngest member of my son Jonathan’s family, was dealing with a tummy bug on Christmas day, so they were not able to come to my house. New Year’s day brought with it a recovered Elijah, his parents, and his sister Vivian. Vivian was to stay with me for...
by Sara Ray | Jan 3, 2018 | Cooks' Corner
A new year has begun. I slept through the “changing of the guard;” I did not hear my phone chirp out a text message from my sister wishing me a Happy New Year. Several publications I read during December mentioned choosing a word to focus on for the coming months,...
by Sara Ray | Dec 27, 2017 | Cooks' Corner
As I prepared to write this column, there was a song lyric floating around in my head. It is a line from a Christmas song, “Deck the Halls,” and it goes like this: “Fast away the old year passes…” I have to ask the question, “Where did 2107 go?” I can ask all I...
by Sara Ray | Dec 20, 2017 | Cooks' Corner
I sorted through a lot of Christmas decorations trying to decide which ones I wanted to use this year. Many of them brought back fond memories of my husband and children, especially the Christmas stockings that I had made for each of us. One stocking, however, took...
by Sara Ray | Dec 13, 2017 | Cooks' Corner
Christmas time is cookie time! One of my favorite things to do during the Christmas season is to bake cookies. It is a task that is more fun when shared, but I still enjoy baking them even by myself. During the previous eleven Christmas seasons that I have...
