Here is another recipe that I made when it came time for another birthday. Instead of making the standard cake I made an ice cream pie instead. Ingredients: 1 Ready made graham cracker crust (any brand) 1/2 gallon vanilla ice cream 1 carton whoppers candies 1 bottle...
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the old way versus the new way of cooking
I don't really use cookbooks that much. However, there was a set of my grandmother's old cookbooks I absolutely loved. There were 22 books in the whole set and I had every single one. I have no idea how old they were, but I found hints of their age stuck between the...
Strawberry and French Vanilla Pudding Cake
Since I don't have much to add to this month's book brew I figured I would instead add a couple of my recipes I like to make. This first dessert is one of my own. I came up with this when I was looking to make a birthday cake for my daughter. I was tired of making the...
Let Darkness Come
(Author Bio courtesy of her website) Now that her two children have reached their twenties, Angie and her husband live in Florida with Very Big Dogs (a direct result of watching Turner and Hooch and Sandlot too many times). This affinity for mastiffs has not been...
The Gift of the Magi
The original story written by O. Henry was published in 1906. I read this story first in middle school, but it has had such a profound effect on me that it is my all-time favorite Christmas story. I never tire of hearing this selfless story of how far a husband and...
Twelve Days of Bliss
Author Bio: Monica Robinson has been writing novels and short stories since the age of twelve. Having dabbled in poetry, YA, and even horror, she found her calling in romance writing. When she isn't busy staring at her computer screen, she's chasing her two...
Christmas…Highlander Style
Author Bio courtesy of her website: http://janetchapman.com/books.htm As I sit here, trying to put into words who I am, I can't help but think of hats. I know it's an old, time-worn cliché, but hats fit (no pun intended). Like everyone else, I wear many hats;...
The Perfect Christmas
Author Bio: Debbie loves to tell the story of her struggle to get published, and the five-year search to find a publisher who would buy one of her manuscripts. Dyslexic and the mother of four young children, she wrote those early books in her kitchen on a rented...
My first Holiday Pick
I chose this as one of the CTRR Awards, so some of you may recognize it from then. However, being that our theme is Christmas and this is a definite Christmas tale with a message of hope, forgiveness, and growing up I wanted to include it again. Author bio: I live...
The Gift of the Magi
The original story written by O. Henry was published in 1906. I read this story first in middle school, but it has had such a profound effect on me that it is my all-time favorite Christmas story. I never tire of hearing this selfless story of how far a husband and...