I love soup, but I don't make it very often.  Valerie asked me this winter to make more soups, and I immediately thought of this mi...

My great-grandmother made this cake all the time when I was a kid, and I absolutely loved it.  It is one of the first recipes I tried t...

Gastronomically speaking, there are few things I enjoy more than cheesecake.  I was skeptical when I saw this recipe because, in my exp...

My previous post on Nonna's pizza  featured only the recipe for the crust with assembly and baking directions.  When I found this r...

Nothing like waiting until after the holidays to post a pumpkin pie recipe!  Oh well.  Though, pumpkin pie is so good, why not have it ...

Known more as a Christmas staple, we actually made these cookies for the first time around Halloween.  Valerie received a big box of cook...

I had some trouble with this recipe.  Not that it was difficult, it was that the end result didn't taste the way I thought it shoul...

I'm always excited to find a new cookie recipe, especially on as simple as this.  With ingredients that I normally have in my refri...

I have tried a number of different peanut butter cookie recipes over the years, never finding one that I would happily make again and a...

Practice makes perfect.  Although I may never make apple pie as good as Nonna did, I'm heading in the right direction.  I documente...

After making a Creamy Carob Pie , and finding out that it was not the pie I remembered from my childhood, I went straight to the source...

  When I was a child, I remember my Aunt Sue making a carob pie.  I was always excited to open the refrigerator door to see...

  There were three different handwritten recipes for this bread, and only one of them had the directions. It made me wonder if this bre...

  Sometimes the simplest recipes are also the tastiest.  With only four ingredients, this cherry pie filling is sensational.  C...

  Zucchini abounds in the summer here in Indiana.  I just finished a piece of zucchini bread, as a matter of fact.  It seems ...

While talking to my mom about some of the family recipes I got from Nonna, she asked me about this recipe in particular.  I vaguely rem...

Nothing says summer like garden fresh zucchini.  Well, maybe watermelon, but that's another post.  I have had my own zucchini bread ...

I don't have a lot of recipes that call for cherries, so when I saw this recipe, it moved to the top of my list of things to try.  I...

There was always a Tupperware container full of yum-yums on the kitchen table during the summer days I spent at Nonna and Grandpa...