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It’s unusual for me to attend weddings these days when I am not the photographer. A couple weekends ago that happened. A guest! Wonderful! We made our way to Iowa City for a backyard wedding on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. We got to the house and walked around to the backyard and I was so [...]

It’s good to have friends who cook. Even better when friends make delicious treats like these. Featured here are Lia’s Delights. If you are in the Iowa City area, look her up!

The recipe is great but a little rich and heavy on the Bailey’s. Keep this in mind. If you really love Bailey’s, make as is. I think next time I will skip the drizzling part, and change the frosting to half Bailey’s and half milk. Bailey’s Irish Cream Brownies 3 oz unsweetened baking chocolate (1oz [...]

This is one of my favorite foods in the entire world. 1st reason, it’s a fried. 2nd reason,  it’s a simple process. I don’t even have a recipe for it, but I’ll try to give it a step by step here. 1. Cut your eggplant in thin slices. Leave the skin on. 2. Salt each [...]

I am now working with Yumi’s Bakery & Deli here in Grinnell. Their food is beautiful and I am looking forward to our weekly photo shoots.

My youngest son turned 10! I let him pick out all the elements of his ice cream cake. This is what he come up with. Chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream, strawberry frosting, and chocolate sprinkles. It was really good! I am not a huge fan of strawberry frosting but it complimented the [...]

I am so sad that they don’t make chocolate covered Sugar Babies anymore.

I didn’t have a lot of time to get the real camera out for good pictures. This was taken with my point and shoot as I was pulling it out of the oven, setting on top of fridge to cool, and running out the door. The Strawberry Rhubarb Crunch recipe was sent to me on [...]