Musings of an Accidental Housewife

This is the day that James and I refer to as "Our Birthday." It's the anniversary of the day we met - the "birthday"...

Ok - you can change the name if you like. But after you make it once you'll see that it fits (like the "Nummylicious Cheese Ball...

I learned a very useful tidbitof information yesterday that I thought I'd just quickly pass on. As you know I've been crafting and ...

I found this recipe in the Sunday Parade magazine a few years ago. I literally never read that thing, but I was bored... or maybe it was f...

Cream Puffs (or Pâte a Choux) can be used for so many things. You can fill them with custard or pudding or whipped cream. You can top them w...

Apparently my family really likes chicken - it seems I'm always finding a new CHICKEN recipe to try... Here's another one that they ...

Just a quick post - I made this for dinner this week. Everyone LOVED it...except for my younger son. He said it was "too lemony." ...

Apparently, for some unknown reason, the month of February has been "let's make caramels" month at our house. We've made t...

I make a resolution (or two) every year. Unfortunately, every year - like everyone else - I break it by February. This year I decided to mak...

In case you didn't know, I spend a LOT of time in my kitchen. One of the things I complain about often is that my funnels are too slow ...

I've decided, since I haven't felt like WRITING in a while, to shift the focus of this blog for a bit. I'm going to try posting...

Our older son is set to graduate from high school in about two weeks. I'm just not ready! I know it's part of life - part of raising...

Last weekend, after more than a week of below-zero temperatures, we not only broke the “0” mark, but we blasted right through “freezing” and...

I’ve recently started baking bread. Not the “knead and rise and knead and rise” kind. I like to say I’m “ too ADD” for anything that takes t...

I know it's been nearly a year. I'd like to say I've been busy, but the truth is that I just can't write unless I "fee...

Today my darling husband and I have been married for 20 years. I can still remember so much about that day that it can’t possibly have been ...

We're heading off for Spring Break. I know there are people who prefer to wait until the last minute, throw things into a suitcase, and ...

One day as the Mother was standing in the kitchen, and she decided to bake a batch of Cookies. "These Cookies will need some sugar an...

We woke up to nearly 12” of fresh snow this morning (actually, we measured 11” in the back yard, but a FOOT OF SNOW sounds so much more impr...

This winter was almost perfect. We have had, at most, 2” of snow in any one storm. Our weather has been warm for most of the winter, too, ...

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It ca...

One of my most treasured Christmas traditions is one my husband and I started on the first Christmas after we were married. That year we we...

We got our Christmas tree on Saturday. Since we live in the heart of the big city, there was no tramping through Santa's forest to cut d...

Saturday morning, due to some unexplained burst of insanity, my darling husband decided it was the day to clean out the Toy Closet. To under...

Today I woke up feeling - icky. Nothing specific wrong, just kind of achy all over. I decided it would have to be a light day, because there...