Superplexus a Big Hit with Middle School Students

Happiness is a blender that is powerful enough to make a perfect smoothie (with large frozen strawberries involved) and is also easy to clean. If you are a smoothie, milkshake, or frozen mixed drink fan, I’m sure you will agree. The first blender we had lasted only a few months and in the YEARS since…
Recently my husband was craving homemade donuts. Cameron’s dream came true! He found a recipe, prepared the dough, and cut out the donuts. (NOTE: we used butter instead of shortening in the recipe.) While they were rising, he made the regular icing, according to the recipe, and I mixed up some chocolate frosting (yes, I…
Newspapers and magazines, in print and online, are currently full of articles about how to stay healthy during what we think of as cold and flu season. While I find it strange that there is a time of year assigned to these viruses (because of kids in school? people not getting enough fresh air?) I’m…
Essence of Chocolate: Recipes for Baking and Cooking with Fine Chocolate I admit I am very skeptical about cookbooks like this. Are they just using chocolate to lure me in? Will the butter, chocolate, and time that I put into these recipes yield fabulous results? (I’m kind of a chocolate dessert snob, I admit it!) …
Visiting Rehoboth Beach, Delaware? Looking for tasty, interesting food? This past weekend I answered, "Yes!" to both questions and found myself at Greenman Juice Bar & Bistro on Sunday afternoon for a late lunch. While it feels off the beaten path, it’s very close to all of the beach action, one street over from the…
I’ve been making quite a few Molten Lava Cakes in the past twelve months because they a) are ridiculously easy to make and b) they are a 100% cure for a chocolate craving. I looked at a few recipes online and even one in an issue of Martha Stewart Living, but I wasn’t really satisfied…