Spicy Herb Roasted Nuts

It is Friday, so it is time for my next holiday recipe. It is now less than 3 weeks till Christmas and I am in complete disbelief by how quickly it is approaching. At least I have gotten a lot of the shopping done that I need to do….
I have made this recipe for roasted [...]

Never Lasts Long, Pumpkin Bread

It is so hard to believe that this weekend is going to be the first of December. Why is it creeping up on me this year? Normally I am so prepared for Christmas by now. I have got to get on top of it here soon!

At least I have done a little bit of holiday [...]

Butter Blends

I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving yesterday.
Here is this week’s holiday recipe. It is actually two recipes but they both are similar and very simple to make.
I love having these on hand because they can turn a regular slice of bread or pancake into something special and like I said, they are so [...]

Snappy Ginger Cookies

As I mentioned in my post last Friday, I plan on posting one holiday related recipe a week from now until Christmas. The one for this week is centered around an herb I love to use: Ginger.
Ginger is one of my favorite herbs to have on hand. It is useful for so many things, not [...]

Sweet and Spicy

With the holidays rapidly approaching I thought it might be fun to post a recipe a week with the recipes being centered around a holiday theme. So starting today, every Friday until Christmas, I am going to post one of my own personal recipes for this time of the year. I will start it all [...]

Cookies, Anyone?

 
I baked up some anise seed cookies today (recipe follows). Anise seed (Pimpinella anisum) is one of my favorite herbs even though it is not commonly used. I like the fact that it has culinary uses as well as having many medicinal properties. It’s actually a very useful herb. A bonus is that it is [...]

Elderberry to the Rescue!

This past week a nasty cold ran it’s course through my household. Thankfully I had elderberry on hand. I was very impressed by just how much it helped everyone get over the cold quickly. As soon as one of us showed signs of the cold hitting I doctored them up with either elderberry syrup or a [...]