What a week! What an end of the year! I personally feel like we’re circling the drain too fast on 2016; I can barely catch my breath. Are you ready for the new year? Is anybody actually ready for what’s coming in 2017? Do I even want to think about this? Why am I asking!?So I had a few guests this

Today was the first day of snow in Yamaguchi!I woke up this morning to hear my husband say, "Oh my God," from the living room. Sure someone was dead, I clenched up, waiting for the bad news. I should know better. Mr. Louise is missing the chip in his brain that tells him how to ...Continue

I haven’t been feeling too great this past week and into the weekend. Blame it on the 'betes – my blood sugar went low on Friday and I’ve felt messed-up for a few days. So when I was cruising through the comments of last week’s ROTW, the “Baked French Toast” stuck out; it was by the beloved Pioneer

My first word was “meatball,” a moment I like to think of as when I peaked. My father makes incredible meatballs; the formula is top-secret, in-the-vault, never-to-be-shared, which makes them a little bit more special, I think. We’ve had my dad’s spaghetti and meatballs after short winter

When it comes to memorable food scenes in holiday movies, dinner is the crown jewel of the holiday feast; breakfast scenes are relegated to the shadows. An overcooked turkey might fart noxious gas in Christmas Vacation or a pack of incorrigible hounds might gobble a roast in A Christmas Story,