I simply adore Saturday mornings with my husband. We sleep in until we can’t sleep in anymore, roll out of bed, and head downstairs to our kitchen. My husband fills up our black and stainless steel teapot with water and he makes Vivace coffee in our used and abused French press. We take turns making [...]

The moment I walked into Bon Vivant’s Smart Bread Baking (which I have renamed Bread Baking 201), I was put to work. Apron on, recipe in hand, ingredients, KitchenAid mixer, and go! I was paired up with a perfect stranger – everything started so fast, I’m not sure I ever caught her name. We bonded [...]

Every Sunday morning after church, my cousins, aunts, and uncles would cram into every little nook and cranny at my grandparents’ house. One group gathered around a card table to watch my grandpa and my uncles play a fierce game of Wist, the girls hibernated to my aunt’s room to gossip about boys, and the [...]