In the kitchen

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Busy, busy

I’ve been sort of quiet for the past several days, and I have a really good excuse, honest! 😉 Two of our grandsons (aged 9 and almost 6) have been staying with us while our daughter (their mom) has to be out of town on business. She comes home on […]

A birthday

I really am trying to work on my Winding Ways blocks, but there isn’t actually much to show that’s new. Besides, I keep getting interrupted for other things that don’t necessarily have anything to do with quilting! Today, for example, is our younger daughter’s birthday. She and her two children, […]

And more yum …

Can you stand another foodie photo? After all, I did call this “Quilting and more…”. So, I made some cheddar cheese biscuits to go with our chili con carne tonight — it’s a new-to-me biscuit recipe, and they were pretty good, if you can judge by how many my husband […]

Yum!

I’ve had a KitchenAid mixer for several years, but it died. It wasn’t its fault, of course — it was a casualty of our move ten (almost eleven) years ago. Two days ago, my new mixer arrived, and it’s a beautiful cobalt blue! Today I gave it its first little […]

Oatmeal cookies

A friend of mine shared a recipe for oatmeal cookies, so I took some time off from embellishing today to bake them. Yum!! I think these may be the best I’ve ever had. I don’t know if any will be left after my grandchildren come sample them, so I took […]