I’m back! With a new recipe (well, actually two) just like I promised, and on top of that… a really long post! A few weeks back I was helping clean out my grandmother’s kitchen cabinets and I made a real gem of a find. All the way in the back, tucked in a corner buried […]
Month: June 2010
Patriotic trifle-style dessert thanks to Miss Plum on Flickr … Another Military Monday comes and goes. Henry W. Linck, 23, Army Staff Sergeant, Dec 07, 2006 Manhattan, Kansas Brent E. Beeler, 22, Marine Reserve Lance Corporal, Dec 07, 2006 Jackson, Michigan Nathan M. Krissoff, 25, Marine 1st Lieutenant, Dec 09, 2006 Truckee, Nevada Philip C. […]
What can I say? I bake to comfort people, to make them happy, to help cure illness (of course, the AMA wouldn’t agree with that one, but I think baked goods can have the same healing effect chicken soup supposedly does) and to thank them. I refuse to make a box dehydrated cake or cookie […]
White chocolate & blue sugar coated strawberries idea from Rachael Ray’s magazine & Dove Chocolate .. Well, last week marked a whole year of me doing Military Monday’s. So today marks the start of the second year. I really hope I don’t make it to a full 2 years. That’s way too many names, way […]
The Food Network is dangerous at night. You’re sitting there, it’s 2 a.m. and then Guy Fieri comes on with Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (or as Jay calls it, “Diners, Drive-Thru’s and Drive-bys“) and even if you ate a huge dinner… you’re done for. It’s starts out innocently enough, you’re sitting there watching him eat […]
Patriotic “thank you” kisses, photo by Stephanie Spice at Flickr … I found that image on Flickr a few weeks ago, and I thought the sentiment was extremely appropriate for this, my 52nd week doing Military Monday. That’s pretty much all I can say. Thank you. Joseph W. Perry, 23, Army Sergeant, Oct 02, 2006 […]
1943 Kerr home canning book front cover, courtesy of Ursula Haigh on Flickr … I can’t believe next week makes a whole year since my first Military Monday post. Aaron A. Smith, 31, Army Sergeant, Sep 14, 2006 Killeen, Texas David Thomas Weir, 23, Army Sergeant, Sep 14, 2006 Cleveland, Tennessee Clint E. Williams, 24, […]
Like I said last month, and the month before, and the months before that, on the second of every month this year, I’m going to be asking you, my loyal readers, to do something. It’s nothing that will drastically change your life in any way, or your financial situation, but it will help others. And […]
I'm Marilla. A 30-something artist, hobby baker, home canning enthusiast, gardener, DIY-er, wife, mommy of a baby boy and dog mom (to another baby boy) from New York. 
