A Pinch of Joy is one year old! Actually, it is older than that because I did a lot of research and learning and planning before posting the very first post. And that was August 22 – just one year ago! In case you missed it – and I’m sure most of you did! – here it is again. The first month, readers were numbered in the tens – and I knew the name of every one of them! Your words and feedback were so encouraging! I can’t thank you all enough for taking the time to write those notes! You know who you are. . . . This has been a learning year! I was fairly proficient at using MSWord and knew my way around the internet really well. And I heard about C Prompts and FAT 32s when Bytes studied for his certification exams. None of that was any help at all in blogging! I had to learn ... [Read More]
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Cream Cheese Toffee Dip
Cream Cheese Toffee Dip -- a "published" recipe. For my birthday this year, I received a brand new community cookbook from my sister in law. When I opened it up the very first recipe in the book was one I had given her a couple of years ago. An honor to be the first recipe! Never mind that “A is for apple dip” and comes in the alphabet before “B is for Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts”! Community cookbooks are treasures! You know when you look through them that contributors offered their very best, the recipes that have been savored repeatedly. I have three or four special books to which my family have contributed their “keepers” that are stained and well worn and used frequently! My birthday cookbook celebrates the quasquicentennial of a small town and contains 164 pages of yummy ... [Read More]