The Hidden Pantry

There is an old saying about the best laid intentions which this year has intersected with Murphy"s Law!
So as I wish you the very Merriest Christmas and the very best and much happiness in the coming New Year....let me recap my lack of postings.
My beloved husband has had an unprecedented year of accidents and injury and ill health.  As some of you may know he is a gun smith and he repairs and restores as well as modifies legal firearms.  He does not sell guns.  He and a friend were hoisting...

Yes, I have been missing for a good long while my friends.  So thank you to all of you who have stayed around.
My New Years Resolutions are only two.  The first is to return to my once normal life and resume doing everything I did before I was debilitated by pain,  The second is to get on a program, probably of my own to loose more weight because that cannot...

This Christmas I got a double 9"' x 13" size cake pan with a cover that holds a large 3-4 layer cake batter!
Playing catch up will start with a back story today.  We have three wonderful sons and I am humbled to be their Mother.  Our middle son Mike and his family have lived in the same subdivision as we do since our granddaughters were in grade school.  So...

Using a scoop and dipping the scoop in sugar in between scooping makes the dough more readily release and for nice uniform cookies!
Lately I have loved using more and more honey in my cooking.  It just adds some little extra somethin' somethin' I really like.  The fact that it never spoils leads me to think it may well act as somewhat of a preservative too....