Taste of Home Best Loved Recipes

Cookbook ReviewI have been following and cooking from the Taste of Home recipe for years. I have stacks of back issue magazines and several cookbooks that I return to time after time for well loved recipes that have now become family favorites.Taste of Home is now celebrating 20 years of 'Good Recipes and Great Stories'."What I love so much … [Read more...]

A Return to Loveliness

Simple Pleasuresby Cornelia GuestI was simply delighted by the opportunity to review this intriguing cookbook. I am not a 'vegan' but I do appreciate the importance and value of eating well. I began to read Cornelia's cookbook and could not put it down.This is more than a cookbook, it is a lifestyle book.Even more than that, as I continued to … [Read more...]

Delightsome cookbook

Grace’s Sweet LifeI was afforded the opportunity to review the cookbook, Grace's Sweet Life – it is captivating from cover to cover. The delectable images, delicious recipes and well written text causes one to wish to attempt each recipe.Grace so well describes techniques to Italian desserts that anyone would feel confident in their ability to … [Read more...]

Cook Book Review

Taste of Home Cooking School CookbookI have been a great fan of the Taste of Home magazine and cookbooks for many years! The recipes are all so very delicious and special because they come from the hearts and the homes of so many wonderful ladies.Several pages have a 'How To' section on the sidebar of the pageWhen I was asked to review the latest … [Read more...]

A Return to Loveliness

  Homemade Gifts   Christmas is just a few short days away, but I think there’s  still time to make a few homemade gifts, or something to bring to a party!       From Your Heart and From Your Hands that will be greatly appreciated! I am taking my inspiration from special books I was perusing this … [Read more...]

B & B Inspired Breakfast

Saturday Brunchphotos were take with camera phone - my daughter borrowed my camera for the promMy guests are slowly rising this morningso I chose to make two dishes fromtwo of my favorite cookbooksPotato Bacon and Eggs fromJoie de VivrebyRobert ArborandBlueberriest MuffinsThe Foster's Market CookbookbySara FosterThese two dishes are wonderful to … [Read more...]

A Good Read

Cookbooks On days such as these that have been windy and gray I love to sit down and curl up to a good read.Among my favorite reads are my Victoria Magazines,gardening books, home decorating, tea books, historic books,Biblical books, mysteries and thrillers and cookbooks.Some of my favorite books have chapters where the author shares a bit about … [Read more...]