Pumpkin Roulade with Ginger Buttercream

Pumpkin Roulade with Ginger Buttercream

Update:  This fabulous Roulade is my original post from back in 2013 and I thought I'd honor the beginning of pumpkin season with a re-post. Once you taste it, you'll see why it's one of the front runners! 🙂 When autumn arrives and the weather cools, there's one flavor of the season that cannot be [...]

Red Velvet Cheesecake

Red Velvet Cheesecake

When I was having dinner (and a wonderful time) with my oldest son, Andrew, a couple of weeks ago in St. Louis, we were discussing where to have dinner the following night...(see a familial pattern?)...and Andrew started talking about an amazing cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory he had had the other day, which was their [...]

Rhubarb Crumb Tart

Rhubarb Crumb Tart

Jodi, one of my very best friends in the whole world texted me yesterday morning and wanted to know if she could come over and fish off my pier. Jodi and I grew up a block apart where our families both had homes on the lake. Both sets of parents eventually aged and the lake [...]

Raspberry Creme Cupcakes

Raspberry Creme Cupcakes

So I'm not really the most artistic person in the world. I'm not very deft at decorating or making foods look picture perfect. I think it has to do something along the same lines as the fact I can't paint. Yes, paint. I've tried it. Within 2 minutes of approaching a paint can to paint [...]