Did You Know There Is a Lot More To Know About Honey?  (Part 2)

Did You Know Romans Ate Custard?

In January, I suggested you check your family recipes to make sure they weren’t missing any directions and/or ingredient measurements. (Did You Know Recipes Are Like Puzzles?) In the past, mothers taught their daughters to cook, passing on family recipes through...
Did You Know There Is a Lot More To Know About Honey?  (Part 2)

Did You Know Ducks are Better with Butter?

Normally, I’d say following directions is a good thing. But without context, sometimes following directions, especially in a recipe, can be as much of a problem as not following them. Dad tells the story about the first time he cooked ducks. It was in the early 1930s,...
Did You Know There Is a Lot More To Know About Honey?  (Part 2)

Did You Know Recipes Are Like Puzzles?

With the holidays over and winter in front of us, it’s a good time to review your family recipes.  (That is, if you didn’t already do that last year while quarantined.) Like a puzzle, a recipe can be rendered useless if some of the “pieces” are missing. Many older...
Did You Know There Is a Lot More To Know About Honey?  (Part 2)

Did You Know Christmas Cookie Tins Can Be Magical?

You never know when a great idea will hit you. For me, that happened five years ago when a friend and neighbor told me about an incident with her five-year-old middle son. She said she found him in the kitchen, staring into the empty tin that had held the cookies I’d...

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