Christmas Goodies

I look forward to the holiday season, Christmas in particular, because of all the yummy goodies that only seem right during this time of year. Monday, as our first real day home after Thanksgiving, I started the goody-making.

I’ve been thinking about these for a few months now and had an idea to change them [...]

Thanksgiving and Beyond

For Thanksgiving I took a whopping four photos and one was just of ODD peeling potatoes. The other three were funny and/or entertaining, though, so I’ll share them.

We left early Thanksgiving morning to head to my parents’ house. We helped get the dinner ready and set the table and stuff. My mom’s brother, his [...]

A Little Macaron How-To

After posting so much about all the yummy macarons I’ve made quite a few people have asked for recipes. If you’re interested, they are all from the book Macarons by Annie Rigg. In addition to pretty photos she has easy instructions to follow and good suggestions for flavor combos so you can mix and match [...]

More Macaron Love

This weekend I made a few more batches of French macarons. They’re just so yummy and there are so many variations I want to try I can’t seem to stop myself. I’m okay with that, though, plus I’m not consuming them all by myself. We took a bunch to church choir on Sunday and they [...]

Pumpkin Carving

We attempted to grow pumpkins again this year and actually got a couple that were somewhat respectable. One of them didn’t turn orance but we carved them both anyway. The rest were bought at a little pumpkin patch in South Jordan. The Monday before Halloween we carved them all and put them on our porch.

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