Food
Encourage Your Spouse with favorite recipes!Lemon Cake – Celebrating the Good Stuff with the Sour
Lemon cake – sweet & sour – just like life. Not everything in your marriage will be good. At times you need to take a breath and celebrate. Regardless.
Simple Appetizer Pleases Everyone
A simple appetizer is my go-to choice when we visit friends. Here’s one we love. Also included is a link to a pesto recipe if you want to make your own.
Cooking with Elise – Greek Style Chicken Marinade
What do you cook for your spouse that they love? My friend Elise is all about cooking, baking and creating for her family.
A Taste of Childhood
Butter tarts are a taste from my childhood – including the recipe. When we visited our parents, I had the opportunity to bake some of these delicious little treats. Robert loves them, and I found the original book the recipe came from.
Chicken Soup and Afternoon Tea – The Remedy for a Cold
It’s afternoon, and you’re sneezing and sniffling. What to do? Make Lemon Ginger Tea, of course! We used a crockpot and dressed it up with mint and cinnamon!
Tasting a Daydream
Do you and your spouse share a dream? Amy Dickerson – from Accidental Happy Baker – shares a daydream she and her husband pursued.
All The Love Languages Covered with Chocolate
A recipe for a Christmas favorite – chocolate bark – from Shannon, the pastry chef. (To be honest, this recipe is great for ALL times of the year.
Rob Loves Coffee Crisp
Food as Encouragement ~ Our eyes see the food, our noses take in the aroma, our tongue delights in the flavor, it's chilled to perfection, or heated to warm our insides, the texture is crisp, or creamy... food is a full sensory experience. And sometimes a favorite...
Forget making lemonade out of lemons – Make Souffle!
One of Robert's favorite desserts is pudding. He doesn't discriminate between flavors or styles - banana, tapioca, vanilla, flan, chocolate, rice pudding or caramel or butterscotch - they're all good. However, he does have a favorite. Lemon Souffle Pudding Lemon...

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