For questions about cooking or crafting with lavender, e-mail. Tips For Adding Dried Lavender to Your Recipes From A Taste of Lavender. To infuse the flavor of lavender into your recipes, first steep the buds in water, milk, cream or sugar syrups before adding them to your food. Use one tablespoon of buds.

Memories of special meals prepared by loving family members evoke powerful emotions in all of us.

A popular invention from the 1970s, these main dish pies are made using baking mix in a batter that is poured over cooked meat, cheese and vegetables in a pie plate and forms its own crust as it bakes. Try some of the recipes on this blog.

Welcome to Glory Bee Crafts and Recipes. These titles feature topics about cooking, decorating your home, crafting, and planning theme parties and tea parties. Come on in and explore my blog postings for gift ideas, craft projects, party planning and great recipes. 3 tablespoons finely chopped pecans.

This cookbook has more than 100 recipes for single-serving desserts, breakfast treats and hot beverage mixes that are prepared, cooked and served in a mug in less than five minutes, like Chocolate Brownie, Pecan Pie and Peach Cobbler. They make great gifts and fun projects for kids. Try some of the tasty recipes on this blog, which are excerpts from the book. Easy Microwave Desserts in a Mug.

Murder with a Touch of Spice. Murder with a Touch of Spice is a cozy mystery by Gloria Hander Lyons. This action-packed novel is sometimes funny and sometimes intense, but spicy through and through! Read more about it on this blog. Books by Gloria Hander Lyons. Murder with a Touch of Spice Description.

Pearls of Wisdom For Creating a Joyful Life. Pearls of Wisdom For Creating a Joyful Life by Gloria Hander Lyons. This book is a heartfelt and thought-provoking guide for women, both young and old. It makes a great gift for daughters, mothers, sisters, friends and co-workers. If you adjust your a.

Includes chocolate history, amusing quotes and interesting trivia plus fun ideas for chocolate theme parties, games and decorations.

After being diagnosed in January, 2013, with breast cancer that had metastasized to my bones, I made a bucket list of fun activities and travel destinations so I could squeeze the most joy I could out of every single day. I created this blog to share the laughter, love and wonder of those adventures with my beloved friends and family. After our fabulous fall leaf peeping tour, we headed up to Maine, along with my daughter-in-law, Christine, and two grandkids, Austin and Ashley, to se.