Confessions of a Pumpkin Addict

By Melissa Minners             Okay, I’ll admit it.  My name is Melissa Minners and I am addicted to pumpkin.  This is one of my favorite times of the year for only one reason – I can get my pumpkin fix sated, for everywhere you turn there is a new and inventive way to infuse pumpkin

Bones Coffee

Review by Melissa Minners                I’ve been drinking coffee since I was four…no kidding, since four years old.  It’s a cultural thing with my family, so yeah, four even though it was probably more milk but coffee back then.  Unlike some I know, I never grew out of drinking coffee.  I don’t drink it for

Pizzamania

By Melissa Minners              Summertime and the living’s easy…and hot.  Who wants to cook this time of year?  Being on the run whenever we’re not at work…or even at work…we want something to eat that’s easy and has a lot of flavor.  Something that could just feed one person or a whole family and can

We All Scream for Ice Cream!

Written By: Melissa Minners             For as long as I can remember, ice cream has been my favorite dessert.  Who doesn’t remember begging their parents for money the minute they heard the familiar song that accompanied the neighborhood ice cream truck.  Back then, it was Mister Softee who would drive around our neighborhood and my