Wow!  It has been a long time since I posted.  Doesn’t really mean I have not been doing anything…LOL.  It’s been a busy month, but here I am. Back in my kitchen and ready to cook, bake and experiment!!!  For this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie, Natalia of gatti fili e farina chose Gingered Carrot Cookies [...]

If you want to make this recipe chosen by Susan of Food.Baby for this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie, check pages 59 and 60 of Dorie Greenspan’s book  Baking: From My Home to Yours. I made two versions, neither one used raisins.  One loaf was filled with walnuts and the other [...]

I was at another mini-reunion yesterday, welcoming 4 of our high school schoolmates to San Diego.  One came all the way from the Philippines and the other 3 have been “lurking” in the Los Angeles area. I say “lurking” because I was clueless as to their whereabouts until yesterday! I was so glad to get [...]