Making Life Delicious: The Pie Life Blog

Back in the 40s and 50s, when my German mother-in-law (aka “Oma”) was a young girl in Northern German, rouladen was her family’s traditional Christmas dinner.  Now, this classic meal...

This recipe started with me in the waiting room of my daughters’ dentist reading Family Circle.  My eyes happened upon a recipe for Chocolate Hazelnut Pie submitted by Brenda Melancon...

Is it a cookie?  Is it a candy?  The name most commonly used is “crack”, perhaps because it is made with “crack”ers or the way it “crack”s into pieces or...

Welcome to the 2nd installment of the Oma series, Oma’s Tuna Casserole. As you may remember from my post Oma’s Old-Fashioned Pot Roast, Oma is my German mother-in-law. She raised three...

I’m no expert at cracking secret recipes.  And those secrets are out there…the surprising ingredient, the unusual method.  When someone comes up with something uniquely delicious, it becomes “the thing”....

This is not a salad.  This is a bowl of crispy, salty, addictive chips.  No…really. My friend Paula told me about these chips weeks ago, how delicious they were, how...