Hi everyone. Vocal has another challenge. This time it’s Campfire Ghost Story. Write a spooky, hair-raising, hold-your-breath-til-it’s-over, campfire story. A Cabin in the Woods is my entry for the Vocal Media Challenge. The requirements are simple, write a spooky campfire story. The story must be between 600 and 5000 words, and start with the .“The
Hi everyone. Vocal has another challenge. This time it’s Summer Camp. Write a story about your favorite summer food. Who doesn’t have a summer favorite. There are so many. Images by Zak Jones and Brandyn Aultz Summer Treats Are Back is my entry for the Vocal Media Challenge. The requirements are simple, write a story
Christmas Cookie Tray, General Tso’s Chicken, Coconut Cream PiePepperoni Roll, Wedding CookiesAll homemade. If you like to cook and bake check out my recipe page. This weeks theme: In a new post created for this challenge, share a photo or two of food. Here’s how it works: Each week, Nancy will come up with a
This weeks breakfast special will be biscuits and sausage gravy. This is a family favorite that that is easy to make. I have been making this for my family for years with various sides. It's an easy recipe and can feed a large family. Even better, the recipe can be easily doubled when you have
No matter when we went to Grandma’s, you knew that you would get something good to eat. Our Grandma always had four things in her freezer: frizzalines, pizza roll, taralli, and chocolate chip cookies. Flour, eggs, Crisco, sugar. These ingredients come together to make another family tradition—Frizzalines. Every Italian family has a variation of this
One-Liner Wednesday This says it all. If you would like to participate in this prompt, feel free to use the “One-Liner Wednesday” title in your post, and if you do, you can ping back here to help your blog get more exposure. To execute a pingback, just copy the URL in the address bar on
I have been making pepperoni cheese rolls (we call it pizza roll) since I can remember. My grandma made them for all our special family occasions, and always kept some frozen―just in case. Often she would take them out when we stopped to visit. Of course she makes the best, but mine are close.
My daughter got married last weekend. Months of planning culminated in the perfect celebration. And my family got an amazing new son, brother, grandson, nephew, cousin, and friend. I am part of a large Italian family, and at our wedding celebrations we have a cookie table. Our cookie table always has several Italian cookies, but
How often do you get this question? Me, I get it all the time, especially on the weekends. I don’t mind cooking, but coming up with something different isn’t easy. My go to breakfast items, other than cereal, are pancakes, French toast, eggs, and the occasional waffle (but I hate cleaning the waffle iron). So
I am very fortunate to have gotten this recipe from a critique that I did for one of my fellow writers in the Pittsburgh East Scribes writing group. She shared a story with us about hosting an afternoon tea with scones for the Daughters of the British Empire. Her original attempt at scones wasn’t well
