Here's a fun little lemony cake that uses a small amount of leftover lemon curd. Prepare miniature yellow cupcakes. Scoop out a small portion from the center of the cupcake, and fill the center with lemon curd. Top with freshly sweetened whipped cream, and sprinkle the top with the cake crumbs. Yum! Lost your microwave lemon curd recipe? We posted a tutorial on lemon curd making on our March 9, 2009 post. 
This time I dried the final harvest of our fragrant scented geraniums. Take about 15 t0 18 stems and put them in a brown paper lunch bag. It is always a good idea to label/date your bag. Fold down the top of the bag and place in the refrigerator. It takes about two weeks (hard woody stem plants like Rosemary take longer) but essentially the herbs are dehydrated.
Once they are completely dry you can take them out of the bag and bottle the herbs, and enjoy using your summer herbs all winter long.
This is only one of our Mother's recipe notebooks, stashed away in a closet, only to be discovered again.
Notice the date, and her comment on this orange cake recipe...Delicious! 1974... orange cake happens to be the Old Boys favorite, so several orange cake recipes have been saved. And to this day, notes and comments appear on recipes that have been made. This last recipe (orange cake, again) has a newspaper clipping attached to it that announces a family dinner that was held at our Father's brother's home.
It is noted that they served rabbit and pheasant! It also lists the family members present, and reading the guest list, Marj, Nancy, and Susanna were not present, dating this clipping to sometime between 1948 and 1950, when dinner parties were indeed newsworthy.
Traditionally made with potatoes and yeast, they can be served plain or coated with sugar or powdered sugar. Many churches will make these as an annual fundraiser. Our grocery store also makes them all day long trying to keep up with the demand. They are so popular you could smell the Fasnachts before you even entered the store. There are many spellings of Fasnacht, Faschnacht, Fausnaughts, but it doesn't matter how you spell it, it will still "eat good" giving this Tuesday its other nickname of Fat Tuesday! 
On The Menu Today~
Winter came down to our home one night, quietly pirouetting in on silvery toed slippers of snow, and we, we were children once again. ~Bill Morgan, Jr.
Another suggestion for Valentine's Day is our Love 'Tea', actually a tisane since it's all herbal ingredients. It contains herbs that have aphrodisiac properties such as damiana, muria puama, white oak bark and others. There's also rosemary for remembrance and roses for love. It is suggested you sip this herb tea slowly while listening to your favorite love song! Although it does have a medicinal taste to it, the end result is what you desire, right?