Note: Be sure and check out and enter the giveaway over at iLashGirls this week! Three great gifts – I’m loving them all, especially the fun return address stamp. I want one! We actually had a taste of summer here in Portland last week – a couple of 80 degree days! I knew it wouldn’t [...]
Cake Pop Surprise
April 27, 2009 By 8 Comments
Just a quick post today while I recover from my 1,600 mile road trip. We just returned from our drive to and from Utah for Logan’s college graduation. We brought back two of the college students home with us – yeah! I’ll share a little about graduation tomorrow after I get a little sleep and [...]
Orange Rolls
April 24, 2009 By 20 Comments
No lemon recipe today! I am keeping it in the citrus family though and we are just moving over to oranges! Today’s recipe is a Wilkes Family Favorite. No holiday dinner (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas) would be complete without these. In fact, no dinner that Grandma comes to is complete without them – Orange Rolls. This [...]
Oatmeal Lemon Cookies
April 22, 2009 By 9 Comments
So I thought I was about lemoned out and had shared enough lemon recipes with you but then the Oregonian went and put a recipe for Oatmeal Lemon Cookies in the FoodDay section last week and I knew I had to try it! I had a group of women from church coming over one evening [...]
Springtime in the Garden
April 20, 2009 By 11 Comments
Today you are going to get a tour of my garden. There’s not a lot blooming right now but there are some definite signs of Spring especially along the woodland path. Lots of daffodils… and the Hellebores are still blooming…. and then these pretty little delicate blue flowers. I can’t remember what they are – [...]
Lemon Chicken
April 17, 2009 By 9 Comments
Earlier this week I had the opportunity to take dinner into a family at church whose mother had had surgery. Usually I take one of my tried and true classics. Don’t you have a few Go To recipes you use when you take dinner to someone? Well, this time I decided to be a bit adventurous [...]
Lemon Cake Balls
April 16, 2009 By 13 Comments
As an avid reader of Pioneer Woman and Bakerella I have been seeing a lot about cake balls lately. Even my friend Sherra was telling me about them. So when I had to take dessert to my Crafty Ladies night I decided I needed to give them a try. Cake balls can be made with any flavor [...]
Giveaway Opportunities
April 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
There are lots of Giveaway Opportunities over at iLashGirls this week! Yesterday we had our first MAN on the BLOG! Dave Dutton has developed an amazing process for discovering your “Given Talent” or gifts. I have been through his process and my son Logan who is graduating from college next week has also gone through it. [...]
Lemon Sour Cream Pie
April 13, 2009 By 12 Comments
I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Easter weekend. We enjoyed the day at church and then dinner with friends. There was so much yummy food. I am excited to share some of the great new recipes with you in the next few weeks – after a few more lemon recipes! But first, if today’s [...]
Lemon Bread
April 10, 2009 By 5 Comments
I have worked my way through my Costco bag of lemons. As much as I love lemons I think I am getting a little lemoned out. Usually I will choose lemon over chocolate any day but today I was actually craving a little chocolate! Today’s lemon recipe was submitted by my friend Meg. Meg is [...]
