Smoked Sausage, Butternut Squash and Wild Rice Soup

I found this recipe last fall and have made it several times since then.  I seriously think I could eat this soup every day and never get tired of it.  I love love love it!  The only thing that keeps me from making it more often is the work required in getting the butternut squash [...]

Beer Bread

This time I used a recipe from Rebecca Rather’s The Pastry Queen cookbook I stole borrowed from my mom.  This is one of those cookbooks that I can just sit and read like a novel.  It’s got great pictures, great recipes, and interesting notes about each recipe.  Ms. Rather really seems like someone you’d like [...]

Chicken and Corn Chowder with Sweet Potatoes

All of the recipes I read about on other blogs are really piling up, so I picked a few to try this week.  Melanie at My Kitchen Cafe posted a recipe for Chicken and Corn Chowder with Sweet Potatoes a couple of weeks ago, but it was still fresh in my mind when I was [...]

Darn Good Pasta

I’ve been doing lots of cooking and baking and not so much blogging lately….I’ve been feeling under the weather with a sinus infection, and The Littlest Apple is back to waking up 5 or 6 times a night, which is just dandy.  So I’m doing my best to get caught up during his naptime today.  [...]

Oatmeal Pecan Snack Cookies

This is adapted from a recipe in a recent Southern Living magazine.  It was the idea of an oatmeal pecan cookie with a little bit of pumpkin pie spice that originally drew me to the recipe, but I changed many of the other ingredients, proportions and mixing/baking methods.  I was very pleased with how they [...]

Glazed Lemon Cupcakes

The Picky Apple loves lemon-y desserts.  Me?  Not so much.  As a result I don’t make them very often.  Last week we watched an episode of Everyday Baking on PBS featuring cupcakes, one of which was lemon.  This is a new show featuring desserts from the pages of Everyday Food magazine.  We weren’t too crazy [...]