We did our little jaunt up into the Santa Cruz Mountains; and it was pretty nice, I must admit. It was also a learning experience, since we were at a place we hadn’t stayed at before. I will recommend to you Jaye’s Timberlane Resort – although the term “resort” is thrown about with abandon when…
I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, what one would call a “foodie”. For one thing, there are a whole slew of foods that I have no interest in every tasting. To add to this natural predilection, I grew up in Michigan in a household where salt was an exotic spice. I pretty…
I have been intrigued by the recipes coming through my inbox for meals where you just throw everything on a cookie sheet, drizzle some olive oil over it and add spices, and toss it in the oven. Voila! Fabulous dinner. Easy-peazy! My kind of cooking! So I finally decided to take the plunge. I’ve been…
Yes, I know, I already announced that Fall has arrived. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t have a big ass salad for dinner on a night you just don’t feel like firing up the stove or oven. And this time, I tried a new recipe – for me a really different kind of salad.…
I mean, it’s September – to me that means Fall is here! Just to be clear, I am not a pumpkin spice in everything kind of person. I love Fall, but I don’t need to eat Fall. However, when this recipe and I crossed paths, I just really wanted to try it – especially since…
I have not been in the mood to do much in the way of cooking for a while. But last night I got a wild hair and decided to actually cook something for dinner. (I know alert the media.) Up until maybe a month or so ago, I had never heard of Hasselback Potatoes. Then,…
My weekday breakfast of choice is either instant Cream of Wheat or instant Oatmeal. It’s quick and easy and I like it. The package instructions tell you to put water and the cereal in a cup and pop it into the microwave. LIARS! Anyone who has actually followed those instructions can tell you that you…
If you lived in the Bay City area and you did musical theater, eventually, you would work with Patricia Ankney – also known as Miss Pat. Miss Pat was short and fat, was a good, but demanding, director, and had a nasty temper if you got on her wrong side. In her later years, she…
I’ve had a hankering lately for a kind of cookie. For the life of me, I cannot remember where I first had them or made them. I am sure I have made them, and I damn well know I have eaten them. And when I ran across a recipe, I knew I had to make…
I signed up for an audition. I had it firmly in my little pea brain that the audition date was 5/4. I remembered this clearly because that is my dear husband’s birthday and I felt kind of guilty about having an audition on “his” day. But I knew he’d understand. Usually, I pick out my…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 