As all of you know, I love to cook and bake, and to me the preparation is just as fulfilling as the finished product. However, living at a high altitude presents some real challenges – I learned the hard way! The day after we arrived, I decided to make pound cake. I thought it would … More A Summer in Westcliffe Part III – Parties: Branding and Others
Before we knew it, the time had come to pack that VW and head back to Westcliffe for the Summer. I took lots of goodies from our house to bring with us to the ranch – the blue and white lamps, several sets of blue and white cloth napkins, a whole set of dishes from … More A Summer in Westcliffe – Part II
Five years ago, I married my first summer love, Doug. It is funny how things work out. Almost 50 years after we first met, we found ourselves very happily married. I was the city girl, having spent almost my whole adult life in New York and Doug was the country boy having spent 25 years … More A Summer in Westcliffe – Part I
I’ve always loved biscuits, even if they were from a Pillsbury paper tube that you cracked on the counter to make it open. I really didn’t experience the true Southern buttermilk biscuit until I moved to the South. It was on a Saturday morning and I was at the Tampa Yacht Club for breakfast with … More The Perfect Buttermilk Biscuit
There is a buzz all around, wherever one goes in Paradise because our children begin school mid-August. We had our tax-free shopping last weekend. Our school buses will be back in full force next week. The start of a school year for me, is the start of the Fall season which is always chock full … More Looking Forward to Fall
For the past few days we have had a stalled front in Paradise that has brought us torrential rain, very dark skies and cooler weather. We’ve experienced up to 8″ of rain in a day! When you live in Paradise, except for a week or two in January or February, it is always warm and … More Comfort Food
I took a vacation from blogging for the weekend leading up to Fourth of July and for the week following. It was a nice break for me, and actuallly gave me a chance to reflect on Summertime here in Paradise. Many people think that Memorial Day is the official beginning of summer – at least … More Summertime
Father’s Day is a little strange in our house. Doug and I both have fathers that have passed on. I really didn’t know my father well – I was 37 when he left us so, last Sunday I really concentrated on what I did know. My father was first-generation American from parents who arrived in … More My Father
I love cookbooks and always have. I have read them in the evening – after dinner, on the beach, and curled up in my favorite chair on a rainy day. Love the feel of them, just like I do “real books”; however I must admit that when I’m looking for a recipe these days, I … More Cookbooks
There are a few people I have known over many years and each has kept true to their style, which is what I think makes them so interesting. Is it old or boring? No! What I like about style is everything. Not only what one wears, but how they carry themselves, their manners, their intellect. … More Style: the way one does something.
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