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My mom made my wedding cake — a lovely off-white, multi-tier affair with delicate, pale yellow flowers and piping. My mom also made the cake for my oldest daughter's first birthday celebration. It featured a fabulous and festive clown that still stands out in my mind more than 30 years later.
Such fantastic cakes were made...
I typically only make candy during the holiday season. Thanks to Jane Sharrock, though, I have a feeling that will soon change and I'll be making candy spring, summer, fall and winter.
Jane Sharrock is the author of...
Sometimes a cookbook is so much more than a compilation of recipes, and that's definitely the case with The Healthy Slow Cooker: 135 Gluten-Free Recipes for Health and Wellness by Judith Finlayson.
This book, which I received free for review, features tasty, nutrient-dense recipes to create in a crock pot, but more so, it's jam-packed with tasty tidbits on...
Sometimes it's nice to go all out gourmet in your cooking. Other times — most times, for me — it's nice to stick to the basics. And what can get more basic than chicken, casseroles and one-pot meals?
Two cookbooks by long-time food writer Rose Murray focusing on those standard favorites of many a cook are now back in print: 125 Best Chicken Recipes and 125 Best Casseroles and One-Pot Meals. I recently received a free review copy of each, and I couldn't be...
When my daughters lived at home and the nest was full, I used big pots and huge pans for meal preparation. Now that the nest is empty, I get a kick out of making meals on a far smaller scale, usually for my husband and myself. Sometimes even just for myself or just my husband if one or the other of us is out of town.
I recently had the opportunity to review the absolute perfect cookbook for making meals for one — or two. 250 Best Meals in a Mug: Delicious Homemade Microwave Meals in Minutes by Camilla V. Saulsbury is chock-full of, just as the title says, delicious meals... that take mere minutes to make... in the microwave... in a mug.
Courtesy 250 Best Meals in a Mug by Camilla V. Saulsbury © 2014 Robert Rose Inc. www.robertrose.ca Reprinted with publisher permission.My oldest daughter, who lives alone, stopped by my house the day after I received my free review copy. She couldn't stop ogling...
