Mom’s Brownies
Okay, so as I’m going through my old columns, keying them in and so on, I ran across a mention of my mom’s brownies. Now I am suffering from an intense craving for them. Because I am nursing a horrible sinus infection, I simply don’t have the energy for baking. But I thought if I shared the recipe with you, it might help alleviate my longing. Well. It’s worth a try. I love these brownies—they are perhaps the most moist I’ve ever eaten. Of course, that’s the...
Read MoreDreams. Recipes. Life. My Grandmother’s Recipe Book.
I come from a long line of savers. Sometimes I curse them for all the things they’ve left behind for me to sort through from time to time, other times I feel incredibly blessed. One tattered blessing is a brown notebook brimming with recipes cut out of magazines and newspapers pasted on the pages, along with recipes written in my grandmother’s handwriting. Some of the clippings are from the 1930s. This was when she first married, had a whole married life ahead of her, and was dreaming...
Read MoreGarden Dreams
An old garden column on remembering to dream I had such a vivid dream the other night. I dreamed that Emma and I were walking down the beach together. We both had our shoes off and she was squealing with delight when the water would wave in and touch her feet. As I always do when I visit the ocean, I felt the awe and wander of it, along with the fear of it—especially as I watched my very small child teetering on the edge of sand and sea. Being about seven month pregnant now, I can tell you...
Read MoreFive things I thought about during my morning run:
1. Looking over some of my garden columns. Yes–I had a garden column at one point for a local paper long out of business. It focused on herbs and herb lore and sometimes I wrote about other things. But I’ll be posting some garden thought in the upcoming weeks. Gardens were such a part of life on Fish Pot Road–and since then for me. It just makes sense. 2. I have another contractor coming over this week. I’m hoping to talk with three and then make a decision. 3. I gave...
Read MoreFive things you may be surprised to know about me:
1. I don’t bake pie on a daily basis. I never did and probably never will. heh. 2. I took a quilting class when I was 23 and I’ve made 4 quilts in my life. Working on finishing the fifth and have plans for a new one. This one is for me. 3. I love paper, which may be the reason toward the pull I feel toward scrapbooking. And why I will always have (physical) books around. One of my first memories is falling in love with blank newspaper my grandfather brought to me. He...
Read MoreRed Velvet Lovey-Dovey Pie for Valentine’s Day
Red velvet is special in the Bryan house. Last year, I made my first red velvet cake from scratch for my husband of now nearly 20 years. Red velvet cake is his favorite. We’ve bought so many of them over the years for him that I really had no idea what a homemade red velvet cake would taste like. He asked for a homemade cake and that is what he got. Quite happily. Of course, the cake was so much tastier. And I fell in love with the process and idea of making cake. But pie is more a part of my...
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