Yearly Archives: 2011

Whew! We made it to the second day. I don’t know about you, but I kept losing my truffles. Everyone kept sneaking into the kitchen and filching my truffles. 🙄 I even started to worry that I might not have any truffles to photograph! I don’t know about you but I […]

Chocolate Oreo Truffles – Day 2

September 13, 2011 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by Taylor

I am a chocolate fanatic. I love chocolate that is: dark, milk, white, hot, cold, liquid or in bars. Don’t even get me started on chocolate with chilies, cinnamon, orange, caramel, toffee, mint and even nuts! I love it all. (95% of my candy drawer is chocolate. Surprised?) While browsing […]

Chocolate Oreo Truffles – Day 1

September 12, 2011 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by Taylor

I get to talk with a lot of people and answer questions. One of the most common questions I get is also the hardest to answer. “What is your favorite fragrance?” ACK! I never know how to answer this. There are sooo many great ones out there. So, I am […]

Freebie Friday!

September 9, 2011 in Fragrances / Thoughts from The Sage by Taylor

I love harvest season. I love seeing the acorn squash, zucchini, pears, nectarines and cucumbers pile up on my kitchen counter. 🙂 It is just so satisfying. The one problem is that I run out of room very quickly. One fast way to make some counter space is to make […]

Bread and Butter Refrigerator Pickles

September 8, 2011 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by Taylor

Triple Ginger Soap

September 7, 2011 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Taylor

Have you ever had homemade ginger and grapefruit marmalade? Imagine it on toast: citrusy, spicy and sweet. This marmalade is so good you can’t get enough! I am already imagining it in yogurt, thumb print cookies and paired with Indian curries. Yummy. Sorry, I have to dry out my keyboard.I […]

Ginger Grapefruit Soap

September 6, 2011 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Taylor

It is Labor Day!

September 5, 2011 in Notices and Alerts by Taylor

Can you believe it? It is the Friday before Labor Day Weekend. Ack! Where has the summer gone? Just before the break, I wanted to share one of my favorite fruit punch recipes that will be just in time for the last big BBQ weekend of the year. This punch […]

Labor Day Weekend Punch

September 2, 2011 in Food and Recipes / Thoughts from The Sage by Taylor

Whew! Where has our summer gone? I can’t believe that we have started school already. The young kids are back and the buses have their flashing lights going in the morning. The college kids are back in town and the Saturday traffic is slow moving. The book stores, coffee houses […]