It has been busy the last couple of days.  Had to finish projects for class and Nikita was going through blood tests at the vet. They suspect Cushing’s disease so we are a little bit worried.  She is almost twelve and sleeps too much.  I have not had a chance to cook anything special for [...]

I wanted to try the Cream Cheese Pound Cake from Joy of Baking but I wanted a little bit of flavor instead of just vanilla. I found Ina Garten’s Orange Pound Cake (Recipe #144674 at www.recipezaar.com) recipe so I combined the two and came up with this.  I was hoping for a moist cake but [...]

One day, when lump crabmeat is on sale, I will try this recipe again.  For now, I used one of those faux crabmeat. The original recipe was from an old edition of Eating Well magazine. They were called Baltimore Crab Fluffs from a crab shack in Maryland. I made a few substitutions (that includes the [...]