There has been some hard work behind the Sweetnicks‘ scenes recently, getting recipes up into the Recipes section of my site. I finally got all the new recipes I made in November and December 2006 loaded for your cooking pleasure. I know, I know, I’m still a bit behind, but now there’s a semi-system in […]
When having salad, I like one where the dressing coats every piece of lettuce. Not drenched, but just enough so you have dressing with every bite. I despise salad that doesn’t have enough dressing. Panera has awesome salad, and it has nothing to do with the ingredients they use. The secret is in how they […]
Last week I spent a lot of time sifting through my tried-and-true recipe file. The thing is humongous and one of these days I am going to organize it. Really. I was looking for a few cookie recipes for some catering jobs last week and going through recipe by recipe to find what I was […]
When I was organizing my linen cabinet the other day, I came across this stack of cocktail napkins, inherited from grandmother when she died. I loved them and everything they stood for. Entertaining, good times, raised pinkies, cocktails. And as luck would have it, most of them are actually pink!
Whenever she had company over, […]
Tonight The Neighbor Wife offered to come help me work on the dining room, and I certainly wasn’t going to say no to that. We’re having a small get-together on Saturday and my goal was to get the dining room finished by then. I’m not sure I’m going to make it, but I’ll be close.
So […]
