Back in June, 2024, my 13-year old dog was diagnosed with kidney disease. Normally, when you have a pet diagnosed with kidney disease, you start feeding them a prescription food. The problem with my dog is she’s allergic to chicken, turkey and other fowl, and the main ingredient in pretty much every single prescription dog […]
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Twisted Tuna Salad with Noodles When I was growing up, this was my all-time favorite salad in the world. My grandma used to make it for me. Unfortunately she died before I thought to ask for the recipe, but this is what I recreated based on memory. As part of the reason why I’m writing
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Despite being trapped in a house that isn’t her own, Charlie still finds a way to manage to bake some zucchini muffins in  Ice Cold Murder. As my mother-in-law has a super yummy Chocolate Zucchini Cake, I thought I’d share that in leu of zucchini muffins. (Because let’s be honest, chocolate cake ALWAYS trumps muffins.)
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Let me begin by saying I have no idea who Florence is. This was another Christmas cookie tradition, along with the Merry Christmas Butter Cookies, Mom would also make pecan fingers. Mom didn’t have much of a sweet tooth, and these cookies aren’t as sweet as other Christmas cookies, so they might be a good
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My mother would have been delighted with this blog post. Three of her favorite things in life were: Mystery books Baking Christmas She was an avid reader of all things mystery, but she vastly preferred cozy mysteries over the psychological thrillers I was writing at the time. (Although to her credit, and much to my
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