Happy Holidays everyone, Have you been as busy as I have? Children’s choir Christmas concert, shopping, entertaining, and working. Does it seem like there is not enough time to get it all done? I just wanted to take a few moments to talk about my annual Girlfriends Christmas dinner. This made the eleventh year that…
Tag: Cooking
Bento Anyone?
Happy September Everyone, The weather is starting to give us some cool days (and morning) and school has started for the children. It has going on for about a month for the Cork household. You would think that by now we would have a smooth pattern established…and you would be wrong. School started for us…
Happy Birthday… in the heat
A few months ago I was commissioned to make a cake for someone that was present at my mothers surprise birthday party. She feel in love with the cake I made for my mom – The Ultimate Chocolate Cake with the chocolate Raspberry filling. Her party was scheduled for the beginning of July and she…
Chocolate, Peanut Butter, & Caramel
Happy Tuesday everyone, I hope that everyone had a great weekend and President’s Day. Last Friday was Stan’s birthday and my babydoll decided that she didn’t want to have barbecue (Stan had told us all week that was his planned meal for the big day) so she called a cousin to get out of the meal and…
When feeling down, start cooking
You’re feeling unwell – your sinuses are clogged, your throats sore, your body aches and what do you do? Most people would hole up in bed and take whatever over-the-counter meds they think will cure them quickly or better yet go to the doctor and a perscription. When I feel unwell, I take minimal over-the-counter meds (because I can’t…
Surprise!!!
A few months ago my mother called me and told me that she would like us to have a 60th birthday party for her and she wanted all of her friends to come (she would give me the list) and she let me know what she wanted me to prepare for her meal. I talked…
Reader Trip
It has been a couple of weeks since I have written a post and I’m so sorry folks. It has been sooo busy in the Cork Household the last couple of months. We had Babydolls birthday party in May and then the end of school (and I volunteered to chaperone the final field trip the last…
Happy Birthday Babydoll!!
This past weekend we had my baby dolls birthday party. It promised to be a day full of a lot of kids and the threat of rain. I had spent the week planning all of the things that I needed to get done so that I would not feel overwhelmed. In addition to the party on Saturday,…
This woman’s work
Happy Tuesday everyone! I originallly had planned to start this post out with ‘Happy Monday everyone!’, but life intruded on this post so it had to be put off for another day. What could be SO important that I would neglect my duties to this blog you may ask? Well I tell you…my duties as…
Caramel Cake please…
While my brother was living with me, he began taking samples of whatever desserts I made for the week to his job as a way to drum up business for me. I didn’t ask him to do this, he just took it upon himself, and with his business selling mind it paid off. One of…
Red Oven Creations 