by B.L. Unkel | Jan 9, 2021 | Baking
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...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 19, 2020 | Holidays
What’s your favorite Christmas present? Is there one that’s meant more to you than any other? Thinking back over a lifetime of Christmas gifts, several special ones jump to mind. I’ll never forget the year I received my first tape recorder or the year I got my first...
by B.L. Unkel | Dec 12, 2020 | Baking
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...
by B.L. Unkel | Nov 28, 2020 | Baking
For almost thirty years, I’ve set aside the month of November for candy making, cookie baking, and football watching. Why do I do it? (I’m talking about the cooking.) It started my first Christmas in Tennessee. I needed gifts for my new friends and co-workers....
by B.L. Unkel | Nov 21, 2020 | History
Although it’s only a myth, you’ve heard the story of how George Washington chopped down the cherry tree, right? Well, according to one of my nieces—who, admittedly, was very young at the time—ol’ George was not the culprit. I don’t recall the reason why we questioned...
