Toot, Toot! Peanut Butter

Here we are in November.  The time has changed, dropping back an hour.  It does get dark an hour earlier, but I like the fact that the sun comes up sooner in the morning.  I guess there are pros and cons to the whole time change business; if it were up...

Christmas gets sweeter

Many of us have Christmas traditions.  The one I have developed since I started writing Cooks’ Corner is to feature cookie recipes one week of December and candy another; this holiday season is no exception. Thoughts of candy at Christmas brought back a lot of sweet...

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...

Fun with family

A good portion of last week was spent with family.  My daughter Molly came on Wednesday with her younger two children, Lincoln and Melody.  Maggie (who lives with her dad) arrived on Friday.  My house has been filled with the sounds of children for several days; now...

Sweet memories

I have mentioned before that my mother loved to tell family stories.  Some were about her dad’s childhood, which took place in the late 1800s and early 1900s.  The hat parade story I related a few weeks ago was our favorite of these. Mom came to Indiana one year to...