Monthly Archives: April 2009

Mangoes

If anyone knows about mangoes please leave me a comment or a link about what you do with mangoes. I like the taste of mango when it is in a smoothie or a cocktail, but I don’t know what to do with raw mangoes from the store. How you know when one is ripe? How [...]

Easter Eggs

It wouldn’t be Easter without coloring hard boiled eggs and having an Easter egg hunt. I’ve had an Easter egg hunt ever since I was old enough to carry an Easter basket around my grandmother’s yard and find the colored eggs that Granddad had hidden for us while we were at the Easter Sunday church [...]

Hot Cross Buns

It used to be a big deal to buy hot cross buns at the bakery for Good Friday. My family is not catholic, but we share a lot of the same Easter traditions.
My mother loved to cook but hated to bake and would buy all our baked goods from a little village bakery run by [...]