Call me morbid, but every time I make red velvet cake, I think about how it looks like a bakery crime scene. (You should click to enlarge the photos and truly experience the gruesomeness that IS red velvet cake.) Especially when my favorite batter-scooping-spoon is nowhere to be found, and I have to improvise, filling [...]

When my son Eli first saw me looking at a Dr. Pepper cake on Pinterest, he begged me to make him one. I like Dr. Pepper, but I thought it sounded kind of weird. So I told him that I’d try it one day. Maybe. Well, he didn’t forget, and requested it for his birthday. [...]

Easter is just around the corner, and on Facebook and Pinterest, I’m seeing all kinds of people posting pics of these adorable baby chick deviled eggs. Cute, huh? But take it from me: RUN! RUN for the hills! Run for your life, far, far away from any temptation to make this dastardly recipe! These fluffy [...]

So, I haven’t blogged in weeks, which on these Interwebs is practically forever. It has been crazy-busy around here, with teaching crafts for a week at VBS, and catching a stomach bug two days later, which postponed our leaving for a week’s vacation in Florida by a whole day. We got back from Florida last [...]

I used to cook Indian curries all the time before we had a house full of little picky eaters. The other day, when Donnie was scooping some sour cream onto a taco, he said, “I miss putting sour cream on top of those good curries you used to make.” Zach is a much more adventurous [...]