Raspberry Chiffon Pie

Recently, my brother came for a visit and we all enjoyed hosting him.  I don't know if it was the big sister in me or the baker--probably a little of both--but I couldn't stop making treats while he was here.  Of course, he had not problem with that and encouraged me to keep up the roll I was on.

Sadly, for you, dear blog reader, most of the treats I made were devoured before they could be photographed.  This particular one made the photograph cut.  However, I didn't get any pictures of the slices so that should also tell you how quickly we enjoyed it. :)  And also that good photographing light was fading.

Rookie Season

This spring our family participated in the tee ball division of our city's little league.  The Little Miss has been asking to play tee ball for nearly a year now.  So this year we made sure to get her signed up plenty early to try out this new sport.  She was placed on the Royals and had a great coach and teammates to play with.

Corn Bread

Whew!  What a week this has been.  Lately I've been trying to keep up a little better with the blog and get at least one post in between my Tasty Tuesday entries.  But this week has flown by and now it's Tuesday again--and a quarter to midnight at that!  So I guess I better squeak in my recipe recommendation before the clock strikes.

If you've noticed on my Tuesday posts, I've been trying to alternate the recipes I share between sweet and savory.  If I wasn't being intentional about alternating the recipe types my posts would probably be 90% desserts. If you know me at all, you know I'm a girl who much prefers to make and practice and talk about sweet recipes rather than savory ones.  Of course, in reality I only eat sweets occasionally--the recipes are just so much more interesting to me.

Chocolate Salted Caramel Layer Cake

It's been a long time coming, but I'm finally sharing my birthday cake from this year.  The month before my birthday, I made several birthday treats for some friends  So when it got close to my birthday, I suddenly realized that I didn't have to limit my baking to what other folks requested or the flavors they liked.  I could make whatever I wanted cause it was MY birthday cake.

New Baby Chicks

Confession Time: I've been holding out on you, dear blog readers.  It's been nearly 4 weeks since we had this exciting news to share, and I am just now putting it on the blog.  If you're a friend of mine on facebook, then you've already seen some of this.  And I guess that's where my guilt comes from.  I usually try to reward my blog readers who take them time to click over and visit my blog with the first information.  But in the busy-ness and excitement of the first day the ease and instant gratification of facebook triumphed.  So I apologize.  But the good news is I have some more recent photos to share.  And they'll be shared here first!

If you haven't figured it out yet, we got some new chicks to add to our backyard flock.  We were so thrilled to receive them in the mail.  The anticipation was intense the whole week right after our hatch day.  The hatchery co-op we ordered from sent us an email on the night of hatch day (a Monday for us) to let us know our chicks had hatched and had been sent out that night via the US Mail.  So then we literally waited by the phone for word from our local post office to pick them up.  They came on exactly the day we had anticipated and we rushed to the post office to pick them up.

Warning: Before you click that button to continue reading, you should know there are A LOT of photos in this post.  Prepare your self. :)  

Spinach Feta Pizza

Homemade pizza makes a frequent appearance on our monthly dinner menu.  Sometimes we have it weekly, but usually once every two weeks.  Rarely do we go an entire month with homemade pizza just once.

Chicken Love

 Our little babe has developed a deep love for our backyard flock.  He LOVES being outside with them.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Birthday Cake

It's Tuesday, so it's time to get "tasty" again.  This week I wanted to share a cake I made for my niece's birthday.

Cabin Fever

After my last post and introduction of the newest feature on the blog--Tasty Tuesday--my sister requested several other weekly posting structures.  While I'm not against posting "Fotos on Friday" or "Musings on Monday", I'm going to forgo the regular scheduling of posts like that and try to keep things a bit more free on days other than Tuesday.  Photos are definitely a BIG part of this blog, so for this week, I thought I'd oblige my sister and make today a Foto Friday post. You're welcome, Sharon. :-)

Strawberry Sour Cream Ice Cream

Good day!  I'm back on the blog trying to keep my posts a little more frequent than they recently were.  One way that I plan to do this is to start a new feature on this here blog.  I think I'll call it "Tasty Tuesday" and plan to post some kind of delicious food or recipe each Tuesday.  Hopefully that will help me regularly post at least once a week.  So let's see how that goes.

Worth the wait?

Winter is over, spring is back on track in Southeast Alaska (what a yucky start to May we've had), and I'm officially back to blogging.  Whew!  Do I feel better now!

'Twas the Night Before Valentine's Day

It's Valentine's Eve--not that it's an official holiday, but you get the idea--but there's still one creature stirring in this house.  I'm indulging a bit in my inner night owl and preparing some things for my family in preparation for tomorrow's day of LOVE.