A Tart! A Tart! My Kingdom For A Tart!

Well, I don’t suppose that was truly the line, but we unfortunately missed that particular part of Richard III last night.  Yesterday 9 of us got together in Bloomington, IL to celebrate a friend’s 30th birthday at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Ky, you should turn 30 more often

It was a lovely evening [...]

Leave Room For Dessert

I did not intend to leave you with only fig muffins for so long. As is often the case, life got in the way (and Facebook, where I have spent far too much time lately). Tartlet 1 has been baking up a storm, including her birthday cake pictured above which she baked and [...]

Happy New Year!

If I had waited any longer to post, I may have missed even the Chinese New Year!  The In-Laws arrived late on Christmas Eve and, after a couple of schedule changes, The Husband and I spent a night in St. Louis sans Tartlets before our New Year’s Eve party.  We special ordered a sofa from [...]

No Problem, Honey

One of Tartlet 1’s favorite jokes is: When is a chef cruel?
A: When she beats the eggs and whips the cream!
My Christmas baking still hasn’t progressed very far as we’ve been wrapping up school work and we’ve had a lot of things on our ‘to-do lists’. So this didn’t involve beating any eggs, just [...]

Christmas Baking

I am behind in my Christmas baking, but it is finally getting underway.  I started with an easy no-bake recipe, Almond Balls, for a cookie exchange. I have some Sugar Cookie dough in the fridge waiting for me to roll out. I bought all the ingredients to make Chocolate Caramel Cookies, because Christmas [...]