F or our bimonthly Cook the Books Club, the current selection was Twain's Feast by Andrew Beahrs, a meandering digression on the tr...

F or March’s Daring Cooks’ Challenge, Ruth, Shelley and Sawsan asked us to totally veg out! We made salads and dressings, letting the...

T he February Daring Cooks' Challenge was hosted by Audax of Audax Artifex. The challenge brought us to Greece with a delicious, ...

January’s Daring Cook s’ challenge was a ball! The lovely Manu from Manu’s Menu brought our taste buds to the streets of Sicily and t...

O ur current Cook the Books Club selection, Baking Cakes in Kigali , by Gaile Parkin, was a wonderful glimpse of life in a distant land...

November’s Daring Cooks’ Challenge had us on a roll! Olga from http://www.effortnesslessly.blogspot.com/ challenged us to make stuff...

Our November Daring Cooks’ hostess was Begoña, who writes the beautiful blog, Las recetas de Marichu y las mías . Begoña is from Spai...

T ruthfully, I don't know what put it into my mind to combine cheese and crispy, crumbled bacon in scones.  The idea just showed up,...

As I began to read our current Cook the Books Club selection, The Baker's Daughter , by Sarah McCoy, I became more and more drawn i...