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New New Year’s Brunch Traditions
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. On the Website, you can read past blogs, search for recipes, and browse. For my New Year’s Day brunch, I will be enjoying toasted…
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Easter Vacation
When I was growing up in the farmland of the Midwest, the Easter dinner menu was baked in. We had a big feast at the home of my grandparents together with aunts, uncles, and a dozen kids. Ham, turkey, and…
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The Beautiful Simplicity of the Omelette
I’m one of those people who enjoys an egg dish as my main meal of the day. Turns out I’m not the only one. Humans have been dining on eggs since the dawn of time. We were probably eating them…
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Breakfast for Dinner
Many of us have made major adjustments to our consumption in recent years for a variety of reasons – environmental responsibility, health, tastes, even the ready availability of different ingredients. That’s led me to think about how my habits have…
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Lazy Cooking
I suspect I’m like most family cooks; there are times when I’m just not up for preparing dinner. I don’t want restaurant takeout or a premade meal from the grocery store – but something homemade and really easy. Sound familiar?…
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A Meditation on Farm Foods of My Youth
During these dog days of summer, I’m having a hard time gaining any enthusiasm for cooking a meal. Instead, I find myself musing upon the favorite foods of my youth. Food nostalgia is built into our DNA early in life,…
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What’s For Lunch?
A long-time Farmboy reader wants some ideas for lunch. She’s often at home during the day, and she wants a lunch that’s satisfying, but doesn’t take a lot of time to prepare. Something other than canned soup. She’s like a…
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You Gotta Have Tart!
“Lemon tree very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet, But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.” Remember that Trini Lopez song from back in the mid-1960s? Great tune, but way off base from a culinary…
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Old-Fashioned Family Food Nostalgia
Each of us has a portfolio of recipes that we ate as children, but that are no longer on our adult menus. Think about your own experience. You can probably come up with a goodly number of meals that were…
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In Spring, the Asparagus Is Always Greener
Thank heavens for the lowly shoot of the lily family plant known by the Persian word for sprout, “asparag.” The British, for a brief period in the 18th century, called it sparrow grass. Too many of us today think of…
