I told you yesterday about the vanilla birthday cake I made for my mom, today I want to show you how I decorated it with basket weave. I used the lemon cream icing recipe I posted with the vanilla cake recipe here: lemon cream icing. Here’s the result. I was a little rushed to get … Read more
We celebrated my mom’s birthday was this weekend, so of course I had to make her a special birthday cake. I decided to use my favorite vanilla cake recipe, and to pair it with a couple of my favorite fruit flavors, strawberry and lemon. Yum! I topped the cake with a lemon cream icing recipe … Read more
My aunt gave me a recipe for hot pepper jam many years ago. I kind of forgot about it in my recipe card box until a couple weeks ago. I went to our local farmer’s market and bought a small 4 oz jar of pepper jam for $4, and remembered how wonderful it was on … Read more
We got some baby chicks the first part of June. They were so cute when I opened up the box. All fuzzy, soft and tiny. We started out with 16 all mixed up breeds. They came through the mail overnight in the box above. We kept them in a much larger cardboard box on our … Read more
It’s rhubarb season here in Ohio! I love having the opportunity to eat locally and seasonally, and it doesn’t get any better than rhubarb in May around these parts. I decided some strawberry rhubarb crisp was in order. My strawberries here are still just blooms and little green berries but I couldn’t wait, so I … Read more
