About me

Small Town Girl at heart.  The last of five children who grew up around the family diner. Happily married for 31 years and the mother of two adult children.   Always enjoyed cooking and now so does my husband!


We have a passion for great food, traveling to sunny spots and enjoying a really great Chardonnay.  We really enjoy our wine when we are with our peeps.  In the summer it is best enjoyed sitting around our gas firepit out on the patio where you will find us. Our relaxing in our living room listening to great music. We love to travel to Napa, the US Virgin Islands and now love Europe.  Just finished a 17 day trip to Italy and France. 

About 17 years ago we started a dinner club with three other couples that met every other month or so. The host couple select the entire menu and send out assignments while preparing the main course. From these dinners we have had the opportunity to try a lot of new and interesting dinners.  This has continued on with a few substitutes along the way and a change in one of the couples.  I believe that this has helped us all to be better cooks.  Once our foodie friends moved south, dinner club stopped.  But who knows, we might start it up again. 


So, here I am many years into blogging, with a couple of followers.  Some people might give up but I look at it as a way to keep the creative juices flowing. But i do this to keep my favorite recipes close at hand and so that my daugher and son know where to find them.