Scottish Oatcakes: An Age Old Tradition in Scottish homes

Stirring it up:   Scottish Oatcakes are made with oats but the result isn’t a traditional cake! This recipe can be mixed and baked in about 30 minutes. The result is a crisp and cracker-like Oatcake to be eaten with cheese, butter, jam or meat. Oatcakes are almost a Scottish icon like whisky, highland cows […]

Amazing Peanut Butter Cookies

Stirring it up: These peanut butter cookies could be called by any number of names: I Can’t Believe It! It‘s Magic!, Too Simple To Be True!, the list could go on and you are welcome to make up your own name for these delicious, miraculously quick cookies. Amazing Peanut Butter Cookies will have to do for now. Perfect to […]

Ginger Cookies – #1 Soft and Delicious Cookie

A yummy ginger cookie treat. Stirring it up! Ginger Cookies. While cleaning rooms one day I clicked on the TV and found The Barefoot Contessa featuring a batch of the Ultimate Ginger Cookie. They looked absolutely scrumptious so after finishing the rooms I cleaned up and headed off to the kitchen to cook up a batch […]

We know how to make tea!

A Ceylon tea set which was purchased in Ceylon in the early 1900s. Over the past few weeks I have attended two conferences, each providing various meals followed by coffee and tea,  but only if you asked for it. My latest tea challenge came just the other day. I was brought a cup filled with […]