I told myself that this year I wasn’t going to do any blog postings regarding gift suggestions.  I know I myself get tired of seeing the “must-have” lists on every other website, and to me, it just makes gift-giving even more impersonal.  This year, though, I’ve taken a completely different […]

Mmm.  It’s even better than it looks!  This is what I’ve been working on today and why I’ve not posted.  Sadly, I can’t share the recipe with you…yet.   Most likely next week I’ll be able to share it, but in the meantime, let me assure you, this is one of […]

Probably one of my least favorite treats at the holiday time is the peanut cluster.  If I am faced with a plate of cookies and candy, if there is a peanut cluster, I almost immediately dismiss it.  What’s so special about them? It’s just peanuts, and chocolate, and peanuts are […]

One of the things I challenged myself with in doing a pantry challenge this week was to use the things in the freezer that are the oldest first.  I have quite a few things in there that are starting to look their age, and I’d like to do something with […]

This week is pantry week here at Tummy Treasure.  With Christmas gifts beckoning from the shelves, I thought I could easily spend less on groceries this week to help enable some serious shopping here.  If you’re interested, I have a pantry menu plan up over at A Piece of Home […]

At the beginning of November, my daughter saw the giant three pound bag of cranberries at Sam’s Club and insisted I buy it.  When I asked her what we’d do with all those cranberries, she looked at me, eyes wide, and said “make cranberry sauce, of course.”  She loves cranberry […]

What do you think? Festive isn’t it!  I collect snowmen, so when I saw this template, I had to have it.  I think I have it tweaked okay- let me know if you have any issues…

If you’ve been hanging around here for awhile, you know of my aversion to leftovers.  I just don’t like having them for dinner again, but having them for lunch is okay, and somehow I seem to make an exception every year for the Thanksgiving leftovers.  But leftovers used in a […]

About a week before Thanksgiving, we had turned on the Food Network and caught the end of a Tyler Florence special.  He was helping solve someone’s kitchen dilemma about Thanksgiving, and I don’t entirely remember, but I think he was making appetizers.  Ah yes, he made a hot crab dip […]

And it truly is December!  We woke this morning to several inches of snow on the ground, and the beep-beep-beep of a snowplow being driven.  Not enough to cancel school, but enough to create a frenzy among very excited school-children.  Abigail is beyond excited to spend some time playing in […]

May your day be blessed and wonderful, and may each and every one of my readers have reason to give thanks this holiday season.  I cherish each and every one of you and am so thankful that I’ve gotten to “know” you over the past three-and-a-half years that I’ve been […]