Garden Inspired Tablescape

Garden-Inspired Tablescape I’m looking to nature for inspiration to create a pretty spring tablescape! Happy Friday, ya’ all! I don’t know about you but we are ready for the weekend!! To start it off we invited a couple of our dearest friends over for dinner tonight! Since our kitchen isn’t quite back to normal we…

Homemade Italian Dressing

Homemade Italian Dressing I read an article a while back about what to look for when you are trying to eat healthily and your grocery shopping. The author said if you look at the ingredients on whatever you are about to buy and there are more than 5 items, some of which you either can’t…

10 Gift Ideas for the Foodie on your List!

I was inspired to write this post after a conversation I had with a friend last week. Her daughter is leaving the nest by the first of next year and moving into an apartment. Her main question? “Can you recommend a few kitchen items that you simply can’t do without and within a reasonable budget?”…

20 Sweet and Savory Strawberry Recipes!

   June is right around the corner, and with it comes one of my FAVORITE fruits!  There really is no comparison to the fresh strawberries mom and I pick at our local strawberry patch-versus the ones we are forced to buy in the grocery store when our winter stock runs out.  With this in mind-I think…

Wonderful Wednesday Blog Hop #125

Happy Tuesday!!!  I hope you all enjoyed a WONDERFUL holiday weekend!  We sure did!   On Friday evening we watched with enormous pride-as my daughter, Mel completed a goal she  set for herself, when she was only ten years old! She graduated from law school!! We spent the rest of the weekend at Mel and…