These were GOOD COOKIES- you definitely want to try these sometime!  cornabys.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/605/

( Do you believe in ghosts? This restaurant sure does! )

 I'm going to post more about my Louisiana ghost tour- I promise!  In the meantime, the next cookie is up!  I wish it had been a good recipe, but that's why I do this, so you KNOW and can stay away!  cornabys.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/the-great-cookie-experiment/

 The third installment of The Great Cookie Experiment is up- with less than desirable results!

cornabys.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/the-great-cookie-experiment-cherry-kisses/

 They posted my second Great Cookie Experiment recipe on Friday, and I missed it!  This was one of my favorite cookie recipes, so go check it out, and scroll down past the filing cabinet smoker to get it!  http://cornabys.wordpress.com/

 I have started up The Great Cookie Experiment again!  This time, I was going through the recipe binder where I tuck away all the recipes I've copied, torn out of magazines, been given by friends, and realized that MOST of the recipes in there I have never made.  So I'm making them.  All of them.  One batch of cookies a week, rated by friends and ( Read more... )

 I've written before how I really don't consider myself a writer.  Supernatural fanfiction and blogposts are the only things I've written in years and years, and I'm much more comfortable telling a good story than writing a good story.  Well, that needs to change because I got news tonight that I am going to be published ( Read more... )

This is forfenchurch  and andersenmom  who used to attend conference breakfast until they moved far far away.  I promised I'd send the recipe, and figured I might as well share it with anyone else too.

You can find the story (because of COURSE the recipe comes with a story!) of my Swedish Pancakes and how a twenty year tradition began at blog.talesbyjulie.com/2010/04 ( Read more... )

Our Valentine's Day tradition came about because we couldn't find any babysitters so that my husband and I could go get dinner.  Instead, we decided that we would have a fancy dinner at home- and include the girls.  We pull out the fine china, the crystal goblets, and all the fancy dishes that almost never get used.  We have a full candlelight ( Read more... )

For YEARS I have been wanting to have an Oscar party.  There are several problems with this.  First, I don't watch all of the crazy little indie movies that come out and get nominated, so if I'm going to do a party, there has to be movies that I love in the nomination list.  Second, the show is on a Sunday night, which is a work and school night, ( Read more... )