Learning To Balance Life Creatively
Recently my family took a trip to southern California for my husband's work and to visit his mom. When we returned, we returned with an enormous sack of lemons. Now... I love lemon flavored almost anything, but what is a person supposed to do with almost twenty pounds of lemons? After browsing some cookbooks and food blogs I decided that one of my first experiments would have to be to make lemon curd. Mind you I had ... Read the Post...
When I married my husband two and a half years ago, I became a step-mom. Anybody who has a blended family knows how difficult it can be. Jumping into the role of a parent can be extremely overwhelming. Particularly in blended families, parenting can be difficult because children are being thrown into situations that they might not want or understand. There was a lot of chaos at the beginning of our marriage because my ... Read the Post...
Ten years ago this month my life changed forever when my mother and father were hit by a drunk driver. My mother was killed instantly and my father ended up spending three months in the hospital. My parents had come to visit me in Flagstaff and on their drive home they were hit by a man that not only was drunk, but according to police reports was possibly trying to commit suicide. In the coming hours, weeks, and months I ... Read the Post...
As I mentioned in a previous post, since watching The Great British Baking Show, I have been wanting to bake a greater variety of bakes...and this has lead to a slight obsession with scones. Scones are a variation of a quick bread. Scones and are typically baked without a pan to give them their shape, although sometimes instead of a "dough" they can be made with a "stiff batter". (62) They are similar to biscuits being ... Read the Post...
