With Husband now home, there has been a lot of adjustment. I’ll be truthful – the first days of adjustments have been hard for me. The wakeups happen much earlier, there are additional lunches and breakfasts to pack and prepare, and I need to be much more alert and on the ball. I’m helping manage … Read more
It’s almost a week since I’ve gotten my Vitamix, and I have to say that I really love it. I love it for what it does in terms of its function, but I also love how it makes me feel, and that is, it makes me feel… Selfish. I use this expensive piece of machinery … Read more
For DG – who taught me way more about music than I wanted to know and for reminding me that hard work trumps talent. Meeting DG as a student was really a resolution of many years of curiosity. He was the son of a close friend, one I’ve known since I was 23, who shared … Read more
There’s nothing like a sure-fire recipe. You know it’s going to taste amazing, and most importantly – you know it’s not going to take a lot of effort to do so. After having made these muffins four times in the past two months, and also wondering how the heck we went through the whole … Read more
Oh, well…It’s a shame that I still haven’t shown you the recipe of this mega awesome Banana Granola! Granola is that kind of thing I can’t live without. I can have it for breakfast only 1 or 2 times a week, sometimes I don’t eat it for weeks at all. But you will always find a … Read more
When it starts to rain cats and dogs everyday ice cream season is over. At least for me. But I just have to share this recipe with you. I’ve made it a couple weeks ago, when it was summer outside with its terrible heat, and the only thing I could make without turning the oven … Read more
I’ ve been planing the whole week to bake some pumpkin pie, cheesecake, scones, bread…it is a pumpkin season still. I fell asleep and woke up with thousands ideas in my head. I even had some sketches of the future photos. But this weekend everything changed abruptly. My parents decided to visit grandparents. And since … Read more
“It’s been a long day without you, my friendAnd I’ll tell you all about it when I see you againWe’ve come a long way from where we beganOh, I’ll tell you all about it when I see you againWhen I see you again Damn, who knew?All the planes we flewGood things we’ve been throughThat I’ll … Read more
I have made this cheesecake for the very first time in the beginning of May. Since than I’ve made it three more times, almost every weekend. And all this time I have been wanting to share the recipe with you so badly! The first time I made this cheesecake, it was absolutely spontaneous. I happen … Read more
This is a Sweet Blog turns ONE today! First blog birthday! First anniversary! I couldn’t even imagine that this blog would take such a significant part of my life. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t imagine that I could have a blog at all! Since I can remember my passion for cooking, I have always been reading other … Read more