November 2015

Butterfinger Blondies

I had no Trick-or-Treaters this year.  Zero.  Zilch.  Nada.  Very disappointing.  And what made it more disappointing was that there were kids Trick-or-Treating on my street, but they were too lazy to walk up my long front stairs to come get the candy.  It’s like that every year, but at…

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Vanilla-Bourbon Pear Butter

If you saw the apple butter pie or plum butter posts, you probably are getting the message: fruit butters are easy to make even if you’re super busy.  I was at the grocery store the other day and saw that pears were on sale.  So clearly I was required by…

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It’s fruitcake time!

Do you like fruitcake?  Let me rephrase that.  Have you tried fruitcake?  Because it seems that about 99% of fruitcake haters have never taken a single bite of fruitcake.  And don’t get me started on people who hate it when you tell them it’s fruitcake but love it when you…

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