Cookbook Giveaway!

While I’m away at the beach this week, I wanted to get ready to celebrate the blog’s 3rd birthday!  26 May will be three years since my first food post.  The blog has changed a little over the years, hopefully for the better, but I often come back to the same cookbook over and over [...]

Fig Muffin, Honey?

This is yet another recipe from my favorite muffin cookbook! I was looking for a recipe I hadn’t made before and I had some dried figs languishing in the cupboard, so an instant match was made. It tastes like what you might expect from a muffin version of a Fig Newton. Maybe it [...]

Aptly Named

Everyone, it seems, goes through a phase in which they detest their given name, wondering what possessed their parents to give such a truly horrid name when it could have been something sooo much better. I used to hate my name, Melody, which implies a musical ability that is utterly lacking but is actually [...]

Keeping Warm

Yesterday’s high in Champaign was supposed to be the same as in Duluth, MN, although their wind chill was expected to be up to 10 degrees colder! Still, as my grandfather would have said, not fit for man nor beast to be out and about. So what do you do when it’s -4 [...]

Providence

If you’re as old as I am, you’ve probably watched at least one episode of The A-Team and know a few of the classic lines: I pity the fool, I ain’t gettin’ on no plane, and the most well-known of all, I love it when a plan comes together. My plans didn’t come together. [...]