Perfectly Normal Chaos

Sunday was a lovely day - it was a church potluck day. This one was a bit different as it was a breakfast potluck, giving everyone the chan...

Stone is the primary breakfast maker in our house. Through the week, we tend to eat cereal, oatmeal, and toast - easy, fast food. On the wee...

This lovely soup came from the World Market cook Soup , a Christmas gift from my fabulous husband. I adapted it for the crock pot. Kidney ...

Another of my pre-surgery written posts. I am looking forward to getting around to your blogs and catching up. In recovery news, I am having...

I made these muffins to take to a dear friend who just gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Growing up, this was an easy recipe to make sin...

Do you love oatmeal raisin cookies? Either you are now dreaming of them or you are making an "ick" face - it seems like they are a...

Yesterday started out with a successful trip to the Farmer's Market on the square... Had some lovely bread in the middle... Chees...

Notice my completely unevenly sized muffins? That is because I was making them hastily. I spotted my father-in-law, who was trying to be sne...

Thank you for your comments on my Jazz Fest post yesterday. I will continue to include my travel/event/ restaurant posts as part of this blo...

I finally did it! After bemoaning my lack of planning and time, I did sit down on Saturday morning to make my weekly menu and managed to fin...

Eier Kuchen (from the Loaves and Fishes book Dom at Belleau Kitchen inspired me to pull off the shelf) are a lovely, thin German pancake. ...

Dom over at Belleau Kitchen has a new challenge involving your first cookbook. Mine is a hippie-inspired volume called Loaves and Fishes (...

Yes, another pancake recipe! Someday I will be able to start a blog full of them! This recipe was adapted from the excellent cookbook The Ne...

1. I have to work overtime every day this week. 2. A disk slipped in my back (teaching children to read is dangerous business). 3. My comp...

I had two bananas that were turning a lovely shade of black, so I decided they were begging to be baked into some sort of yummy bread. I hav...

I decided that a nice food to have in the freezer would be some individual pizza crusts. I love making pizza from pitas or wraps, but I thou...

While my parents and grandmother were here this week, we received a call saying that my grandmother's oldest sister had passed away. My ...

What a terrible lot of titles I have tonight. To start, I have had a lovely week with my parents and grandmother visiting. I was so sad to s...

In an attempt to use my Amish sourdough starter in a non-traditional way, I decided to make cornbread pancakes with it. Because cereal was ...

Last week, the Amish friendship bread started up at work again. Every couple of years, someone brings in baggies full of white, yeasty start...