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Book Club: Dinner, Drinks, Dessert – Chicken en Papillote

Book Club: Dinner, Drinks, Dessert – Chicken en Papillote

So back in the day when I taught Middle School, my teacher friend Jackie started a book club and I got to join. I was pretty excited about being able to meet up with my colleagues once a month in a place other than staff meetings. After dedicated weeks of kids, lunch duty, conferences, and… Continue Reading
Chicken Pesto with Capellini – Quick, Easy & Delicious Spring Recipe

Chicken Pesto with Capellini – Quick, Easy & Delicious Spring Recipe

You know how sometimes it’s a beautiful spring afternoon, and you have friends over and you’re talking over a couple of glasses of wine and having a good time and before you know it it’s early evening and now time for dinner and everyone’s starving?! And you don’t want to order pizza, because you just… Continue Reading
A Recipe From My Lancaster County Kitchen: The Story Behind The Lamb Cake

A Recipe From My Lancaster County Kitchen: The Story Behind The Lamb Cake

Growing up, the week before Easter morning was chaotic excitement. It was a flurry of pastel colors, frills, and the amazing smell of delicious desserts baking in the kitchen. With four daughters, in addition to all the baking, my mother was also busy ironing our new dresses for Mass, checking our Easter hats, and helping… Continue Reading
Blue-Ribbon Chocolate Cake Recipe from the Pennsylvania Farm Show

Blue-Ribbon Chocolate Cake Recipe from the Pennsylvania Farm Show

It's Farm Show Week! ...and in addition to farm animals, machinery, equestrian shows, and milk shakes, you'll find an expanse full of cakes, pies, fruits, veggies, crafts, and art pieces waiting to be judged as Best in Show. This chocolate peanut butter iced cake, created by Madison Link of Erie County, won the Blue Ribbon… Continue Reading
Creamy Delicious Potato Soup Recipe

Creamy Delicious Potato Soup Recipe

When it get so cold that you can't get warm, do you ever get that hunger for something hot and filling and scrumptious? Something you can hold in a big warm mug and eat with a spoon?  Me, too, and I love this recipe because it comes together so quickly and can likely be made… Continue Reading
Harvest Cookies Are Perfect For Fall

Harvest Cookies Are Perfect For Fall

I’m not on the train that pulls into the Pumpkin Spice station even before the season hits. And pumpkin pie? Not really. I’m good for it once a year as long as it’s covered in whipped cream. What I DO love about fall treats, though, are these Autumn Harvest Cookies. They’re crisp on the outside,… Continue Reading
May The Forks Be With You: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo With Your Ewoks

May The Forks Be With You: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo With Your Ewoks

In a galaxy far, far away...  ...which may have been in Punxatawney where Pennsylvania's famous groundhog lives or maybe at the vo-tech school in Brownstown (not sure), my fellow Home Ec. teacher Sam and I were attending some kind of cooking workshop. That was one of the best things about teaching the subject - our… Continue Reading
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