Tinting mason jars Saturday afternoon left my hands a bit more colorful than usual. I love using mason jars for storing stuff. I use them for their original purpose of canning. I make jellies and jams and pickles and salsa and other goodies. I use them to store dried good as well, marshmallows don’t get [...]

Ginger and spice and everything nice that’s what pepparkakor’s made of. I love ginger desserts. (Note: I don’t like ginger in my entrees, just my desserts.) I love gingerbread! I love ginger snaps! I love ginger ale! (Ginger beer is good, but I don’t like it too strong.) But what I love most with ginger [...]

There is nothing specifically Christmassy about these most delicious cookies except for the fact that I only bake these in December and January. In this day and age we can buy pecans anytime, but fresh pecans are harvested in late fall. I remember my grandmother and my mother making these every year. These are quite [...]

This year I really wanted to return to the olden days of C7 lights. This seemed to be a decision met with making no one happy but myself. We all compromised. I wanted the old lights, you now the old painted ones. That was nixed by RevMrKnowTea who said they get too hot and would [...]