Mother’s Day is Sunday. It’s a super busy day in the restaurant business with lots of people taking mom out for a meal. We’ve gone out and we’ve...

I  realize it’s almost May, but the weather makes it feel more like chili and bread season rather than soups and salads. The bread sticks have only...

I  usually associate Cherry bread with the holidays since that’s when I seem to have maraschino cherries on hand. I also use them at Easter because...

 I wonder if anyone has ever counted all of the different recipes that use crescent roll dough? I’m sure that it’s easily in the thousands and yet...

Sometimes the best part about holidays is leftovers. I love scalloped potatoes and ham more than I actually like the ham the first time around....

Easter dinner or any holiday dinner calls for side dishes that are amazing enough to steal the show from the main event. Most often ham is the...

There are several variations for the Breakfast muffin recipe. This one has chopped apples which I like and raisins which I can take or leave....

Banana bread is good, but a little boring. I also make the occasional loaf of blueberry bread because it’s less time consuming than making muffins....

A couple of weeks ago I shared one of my most baked and favorite “quick” bread recipes, One Hour French loaves. This week I’m sharing an equally...

Duchess is our 4-legged child. We adopted her as an 8 week old puppy from a local rescue 10 years ago. Her birthday is the day after mine, so it...

I for one am loving the warm, sunny weather we are having while writing this week’s column. Surely spring can’t be too far away. Especially since...

This week’s recipes are some of the most cozy and comforting you will find. I was raised on “fancy” cream of tomato soup. The kind where you open a...

It’s Super Sunday! One of my favorite holidays. No gifts to buy, no uncomfortable clothing, perfectly acceptable to eat your weight in chips and...

I wish I’d have found the recipe for these pancake muffins about 15 years ago. My daughter is the pancake and waffle queen. These muffins would’ve...

Editor’s note: Joelle is taking some much-needed time off,  so this week we are running a “best of column.” This column originally ran in the...