Happy Back to School season, everybody!!  And to those of you in my school district, happy first day of school!  To celebrate this momentous occasion, I made my Grandmother’s heath brownies and I can’t wait to share them with you. Before we do that, though, […]

There are several recipes in my repertoire that have been gifted to me by friends.  This amazingly simple and delicious pumpkin bread recipe is one of them. Long ago, when my boys were little, we were part of a playgroup through the mom’s group at […]

I’m pretty sure that if love of baking is a genetic thing, I come by it honestly.  The baking gene has been passed down from both sides of my family tree.  My mom is an amazing baker whose sugar cookies and coffee cake are the […]

I never knew my great-grandmother, Bea.  Really, I never knew any of my great-grandparents.  All but two of them had passed away by the time I was born, and those two died while I was still a toddler.  My grandparents, on the other hand, I […]

My mom makes an amazing banana bread.  This is not that recipe. You know how sometimes you can eat something your whole life and you think it’s the best ever and then you try to make it yourself and it…doesn’t work?  Yeah.  That’s how I am […]

Toffee.  Chocolate chips.  Cookies. Y’all.  You’re welcome. Everyone needs a good chocolate chip cookie in their life and this is the one my family has totally fallen hook, line, and sinker for.  It’s based on the chocolate chip cookie recipe that I found on pg. 144 […]