Some people have various fruits and berries growing all over their property. They just need to go outside and pick some. (I'm looking at you, Kristin.) Some of us have to drive over an hour each way to go to pick-your-own blueberry farms. We tell the kids it's a fun outing, but really we're just bringing them along for the child labor. And you know what? Kids have no stamina when it comes to walking around an orchard picking berries from above your head. You'd think they could have told me … [Read more...]

Last week was crazy with all the comments on the World's Easiest Ice Cream Recipe. One of the emails I got had a really interesting idea in it: People love nutty novel cooking ideas ... (recipes) that are easy. I am thinking back over the years ... the impossible pie craze ... the dump cake craze ... that recipe where chopped broccoli was combined with cracker crumbs and you got this weird casserole ... the sau-sea shrimp cocktail dumped on the brick of cream cheese ... you get my drift. How … [Read more...]