One of my most practiced hobbies besides cooking and sewing is crocheting. You might say I’m hooked on it. My mother taught me how when I was around five or six years old, and I have made countless items since. I started out making long chains; when I mastered that step, Mom showed me how to single crochet and then double crochet. I learned to create headbands for myself using yarn scraps from my mom’s projects. While looking through my…..
As of this week, it is official – I have lived in Indiana twice as long as I lived in Tennessee, the state in which I was born and raised. Maybe I should consider myself an adopted Hoosier; however, I know I will always be a Volunteer in my heart. Although Indiana and Tennessee are part of the same country, there were things I had to learn once I married a Hoosier native and was stuck here. People are a…..
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 like to share, bake one for someone else. But the best way of all, eat pie! Some people regard pie as comfort food. A piece of pie and a cup of hot tea or coffee, or…..