Authored by Anita

I made a video. Please watch. If you want the recipe for the molasses cookies I’ll put it in tomorrow. With the correct amount of butter.

If you find yourself passing an author’s home some hot summer day, and glimpse her hunched over a keyboard, you can take an educated guess she is working on a novel. If Christmas music jingles merrily in the background, pine scent wafts from some candle, and she’s taking determined sips of hot cocoa while mopping

Finally, FINALLY! On the first official day of fall, it was cool enough in the upper Midwest to have a crew of people over and serve them chili and apple crisp.(I told them that even if the temperature had been hovering around ninety, I would have served the same menu. Because I am stubborn and

September is here and I’m waiting for the first chilly day to put aside my salad ingredients and start making soup. But it’s going to be in the 80s for at least a week so we’ll keep eating summer-type meals while we watch the leaves change and my morning glories shrivel. Oh, and each eat