Recipes


Perfect Party Butter Mints

Eventually you will get the call. A situation will arise wherein you must have a good stand mixer, so you might as well be prepared. Let this recipe be the push that makes you buy the mixer of your heart’s desire. I’m partial to my KitchenAid Professional 5 Plus model, but I must confess, I’ve occasionally cast a greedy eye on the red, metallic Viking at […]


Rhubarb Sauce

Rhubarb is my #1 favorite thing to chop. Celery is close, as it offers the same pleasing sound, and uniform stalks. But the smell and candy stripping of rhubarb secures it’s position at #1.  Plus it’s the first canning of the year. It’s practically still spring when you start canning rhubarb. Keep it simple. Rhubarb has a taste all it’s own, don’t insult with to much […]


Thumbprint Cookies

This recipe makes approximately 40 cookies. Twenty cookies on two half sheet pans. It is the perfect amount, larger batches and you start to get hot, or tired, but two trays is a meditation. You can make the dough in five minutes, and then clean the kitchen, pay bills, or do workout video, while the dough chills for an hour. Here it is: 2 cups flour […]