My fondest Easter memory occurred many years ago as a student in Italy. It was my good fortune to be invited to a traditional Easter dinner by the proprietor of a local campground. This was a campground unlike any I had experienced in America and at the heart of it was a massive covered patio punctuated on […]
Hopefully, you’ve been enjoying some wonderful spring weather where you are. Spring has arrived in full force and we are enjoying some lovely afternoons. Easter is right around the corner and everything is in bloom. It is truly an awakening. Birds are chirping and bees buzzing. We have prepared a couple of Easter inspired tips for you today to […]
As holidays go, Easter sort of gets the short end of the stick. It has all of the makings of a great holiday, but never quite the same oomph. There is candy, a fun, lovable character, and customs and traditions. Yet it still seems to pale in comparison to Christmas and Halloween. As a boy, we always […]
Wow! This has been one busy week. I promise to have more of the good stuff in front of you next week. Of course, after a long week, nothing beats a tasty treat. With Easter just around the corner, I thought it might be a good idea to take advantage of the Treat of the […]
Peter Cottontail has come and gone and you have more boiled eggs than you can handle. Enter the deviled egg. An American classic – the deviled egg, in one form or another, has been around for hundreds of years. Today we offer up 3 varieties of the picnic staple. We have taken inspiration from a […]
I am sorry to say there is no project today… just information. There was so much to share this week that I couldn’t fit it all. I decided instead to give you a mixed basket of stuff to consider. I love Veruca Salt from the original Willie Wonka movie. I cannot think of Easter without […]
It’s less than a week until Easter. I am kicking off the week with one of our Easter favorites… cascarones.This Easter tradition comes to us from Mexico. If you live in the southwestern United States you may have seen these before. We first saw cascarones while living in San Antonio several years ago. They have […]
We finish out the first week of spring with a nod to Easter. We all have our favorite holiday candies. For my wife, that is chocolate-coated marshmallow eggs. Come to think of it, at Christmas time her favorite is chocolate-coated marshmallow Santa (I feel a marshmallow post coming up). For me Robin Eggs and Easter […]
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