It is worse than “the holidays”, I tell ya. From mid April through the first of June, it is six straight weeks of parties, cakes, and special dinners, lined-up one behind the other around here. Only this year, it started in March and will turn out something like this—bridal shower, bridal shower, wedding, wedding, bridal [...]
Archive | Soul Food RSS feed for this section
Limoncello Tiramisu, Lemon Pudding Cakes, Lemon-Lovers Ice Cream, Candied Lemon Peels, a Birthday and Forgiveness
That title is a mouthful and that’s a lot of lemon, but it was a big week. We all want life to be wonderful, birthdays to be special, and dessert to be the exclamation point on top of it all. At least, that’s what I want. Nevertheless, sometimes the timing is off. Way off. Things [...]
Inspired Reflection at Easter: Soul Food
Inspired reflection—that momentary pause when thought and emotions intertwine to consider the profound. Whether prompted by human touch, written word, nature’s beauty, allegory, or song, you are keenly aware you were just given a glimpse of something transcendent. Today, this video, this song, did just that. Glenn Packiam serves our church as pastor, teacher, author, [...]
A Bridal Shower Menu Collection and the Privilege of Friendship
When close friend’s kids are old enough to get married, it feels a lot like when your own kid’s birthday candles exceed two hands and then both hands and feet, you wonder where the years went. It is the milestones of life—showers, weddings, births, graduations, birthdays, anniversaries, and many others, which remind us of the [...]
Creative Beauty, “Blow Over My Garden”: Feature Fridays
Creative beauty is all around us whether it comes in the form of paint, prose, music, culinary genius, or on a stage, and I love it all. I am often captivated by these various expressions of the soul, open and vulnerable. When I saw this piece appear on Face Book by a gifted artist, Lori [...]
Christmas All The Time
As I write this post there is snow falling outside my office window, dreams of a white Christmas realized. Well, maybe. Here on the front range of Colorado, snow does not stay around long, but it certainly feels more like Christmas with a fresh blanket resting on everything. Christmas Eve will be abundant with Stollen [...]
Abundant with Activity
It is wonderful to get away, gain perspective, refresh, and renew. Then again, there seems to be more laundry at the end of such an escape, and a feeling I may have missed something important. It is easy for the negative to creep in if you let it—stats/views fall off, out of the rhythm of [...]
Thanksgiving 301: The Act of Giving Thanks
According to Merriam-Webster, thanksgiving is: 1: the act of giving thanks 2: a prayer expressing gratitude 3: a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness I love to eat as much as I love to cook, so food-centric holiday celebrations like Thanksgiving are a real treat. My earlier posts, Thanksgiving 101 and Thanksgiving 201 addressed [...]
Stir a Pot, Feed a Soul: Real Comfort Food
When we hear someone say, “comfort food” thoughts drift to dinners from childhood imagining something warm, full of carbs, or sweetly satisfying. We dream of flavors and textures to feed our emotional funk or exhaustive schedule to quench and satisfy. The focus is inward, self-gratifying. What if our focus shifted outward instead? This is not [...]
Wild West Dining Tour Offers Tidbits and Tales in Old Colorado City
Take a walk down Colorado Avenue in Old Colorado City and its charm invites you to relax and stay awhile. Sprinkled among the shops, select restaurants welcome neighbors and visitors stopping-in on a Wild West Dining Tour guided by Samantha Bruner of Colorado Springs Food Tours. Samantha provides historic anecdotes of the brick and mortar, [...]
-
ZipList: Is your shopping list tech savvy or still a pen and paper?
- Chicken Cacciatore Creole-Style
-
Hearth & Soul Hop at Savoring Today
-
Chocolate Cake [Gluten-Free] and the Celebration Express
-
Creamy Garlic-Dijon Chicken: Back from the Archive Abyss
-
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Food From My Frontier {GIVEAWAY} & Thai Chicken Pizza
-
A Bridal Shower Menu Collection and the Privilege of Friendship
-
Emeril’s Sizzling Skillets Giveaway: Enter To Win a Free Copy!
-
A Heart Healthy Diet: What and Whom Do You Believe?
-
Zak! Table Art 7-piece Flame-Shaped Serving Bowls: Enter to Win a Set!
-
ChgoJohn: This sounds great, Judy, and something I want to l...
-
thedrivencook: I love Italian flavors as well. This looks unique...
-
Simone: Hmm sounds like a pretty handy tool Judy! I do hav...
-
Geni: My shopping list is always in my iPhone in the not...
-
April @ The 21st Century Housewife: This is such a beautiful salad and it looks just s...
