Lemon Buttermilk Popsicles

Before we get to popsicles and the mere necessity of investing in a popsicle mold and the green light to slurp your way through sweet sweet goodness and discussing the perfect consistency of frozen treats…I need to announce that I am now an aunt to one more lovely lovely little girl.  Seriously, she is beautiful.Continue reading “Lemon Buttermilk Popsicles”

Triple Berry Cobbler

I have taken 2 cold showers more today than I had intended when I stumbled out of bed this morning. I am foreseeing a few more before it’s all over. I have made more insurance phone calls and left more voice mails with water restoration companies than I see fit. I have purged more Oprah andContinue reading “Triple Berry Cobbler”

Strawberry Margarita

i can’t spell margaritas. it is because i can’t get it out of my mouth correctly. i pronounce it marg-er-itas … and there lies the problem. i can’t talk. without the help of spellcheck, this entire post would have margarita spelled incorrectly.  from top to bottom…without me being any the wiser.  it would be muchContinue reading “Strawberry Margarita”

Strawberry Jam Lemon Bars

I can not leave well enough alone. Never have. Well enough…doesn’t mean it’s OK.  It means that there might be room for improvement.  Even though attempts at this have real repercussions and can ultimately ruin and unravel ‘well enough’, but what if… There are always two ways the road can diverge from ‘well enough’.  ItContinue reading “Strawberry Jam Lemon Bars”

Buttermilk Lemon Chess Pie

Did you spring break?  Break for spring.  I am still waiting on spring…but that is another story…I won’t talk about the snow that greeted me this morning that had me silently weeping and cursing mother nature and wishing I lived in where snow was not in the vernacular after the calendar moved beyond winter.  (sideContinue reading “Buttermilk Lemon Chess Pie”

Blood Orange Bars with Browned Butter Crust

The West Side Market…which for the first few years of residing in Cleveland, I referred to it as the West End Market, but with Cleveland not having a West and East end, but West and East sides…it confused most folks,  in that midwestern way, where those with whom you are chatting know exactly what/where youContinue reading “Blood Orange Bars with Browned Butter Crust”