by Flora Caputo | Jan 13, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
What makes a morning extra special? Crepes! We make crepes a lot on the weekends. You can fill them with whatever you want; jams, sweet cheeses, fruit, or nothing. You can top them with sauces, melted butter, syrup, whipped cream or nothing. We like them because you...
by Flora Caputo | Jan 9, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
So, I make a lot of pie. Apple pie, to be exact.I take the parish apple pie contest every fall very seriously. I slave away in the kitchen every September experimenting with what I will be entering. This year, I tried 4 different pies. This was one I almost entered. I...
by Flora Caputo | Jan 5, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
We’ve been working on our cooking badge at scouts, and needless to say, I selfishly took a nap when I got home today after the meeting. Teaching 15 kids about grains, cooking 2 batches of no-bake cookies plus coaching them on cookie sales….all in an hour...
by Flora Caputo | Jan 4, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Well, I am letting out a well kept secret. To my personal girlfriends and colleagues who follow me here, take note.Here are the legendary lemon lavender cookies that are a main attraction on my cookie plates over the holidays.This is based on a Better Homes and...
by Flora Caputo | Jan 2, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Over the holidays, we did a lot of entertaining, which means we had a lot of food. I just felt like we were always eating. If it wasn’t dinner, it was leftovers from dinner. And the worst?/best?/worst? thing is when we had left over dessert. So when our close...
by Flora Caputo | Dec 31, 2012 | Lifestyle, Motherhood, Uncategorized
That Nothing Comes Easy: This past year was really, really hard. Whether it was work, school or raising my daughter, nothing came easy. I think the economy is taking so long to heal, it’s making everything that much more difficult. The stress of moving...
