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  • Finally,2016 Musing Awards!

      For me, 2016 pretty much sucked. I won’t bore you with all the specifics, but let’s just say if it wasn’t for my obsession with musing about eating and boozing, my guess is I would’ve withdrawn from all human interaction… Continue reading

  • A Food Frolic

    Last weekend my adult children (I call them the DC Contingent) came from our Nation’s Capital to partake in what I dubbed as our “Spring Frolic Weekend”. We kicked everything off on Friday evening by meeting in the booming (not)… Continue reading

  • The 1st Annual Musing Awards

    It’s coming up on a year of blogging. It’s been such a hoot for me and I intend to continue and I hope you’ll stick with me! I’m going to wrap up my first 12 months of blogging by bestowing… Continue reading

  • A “Sweet” Heart Supper

    “This year, Valentine’s Day was a celebration of the heart in the truest sense. With bypass surgery behind and my husband’s continued speedy recovery, I was in the perfect position to go all in with the meal prep. The table… Continue reading

  • If You Can’t Eat the Dish You Love, Love the Dish You Make!

    My family has been struck with Heart Disease which has necessitated a rather slight change in meal prep for me. Typically, sodium has not been a nutrition factoid that I’ve dwelled on when choosing recipes to try or adapt, but… Continue reading

  • Thanksgiving at Vintage

    The stone fireplace in the Great Room at Vintage This year marked thirty-three straight years of enjoying my Thanksgiving feast at Vintage and I can’t imagine a more lovely place to spend a holiday that is wholly based on preparing… Continue reading

  • Pizza with a Princess

    Dear readers this post will be my first ever to not only promote a recipe and a food product or two, but to introduce a fabulous cooking piece that has me giddy! Any gal my age may remember the “Princess… Continue reading

  • Chow down in Chi-Town

    A bit of the Bubbly on the 96th Floor at the Signature Lounge Since our daughter was doing a rotation in Chicago for work, my husband and I took the opportunity to visit her as well as the city for… Continue reading

  • Herbs of the Marrying Kind

    I been planting an herb garden for years now, but it probably was only about four years ago that I started drying my own custom herb blends. The one shown here is the original blend that has become a family… Continue reading

  • Easy Peasy

    This is my adaptation of the recipe found Better Homes and Garden Special Interest Publication “30-Minute Dinners” <img In an earlier post I mentioned that I just can’t follow a recipe precisely. That was still the case with this one… Continue reading