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Singing the Praises of Beef Stew
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. Now is the time of year that many of us want…
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Origin of the Species: Chili
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. Charles Darwin, I think, would have appreciated chili con carne. Turns…
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You Gotta Love Beer for Cooking
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. “Oh, it’s beer, beer, beer that makes you want to cheer” goes one stanza of the Quartermaster Corps song. Or maybe you’d prefer to sing…
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International Inspirations in New York City
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. We’ve just returned from a visit to New York City, and one of the things I love about these trips is the ability to find…
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Put a Spring {Vegetable) in Your Step
I’m ready for a menu shift. My appetite is changing. It’s the time of year when spring showers encourage the blooming daffodils and crocus. On the farm, I could smell spring coming through the thawing frosted ground. It’s the time…
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Dispatch from the Cabbage Patch
My friend Tom suggested I was missing an opportunity to extol the glories of cabbage, especially during the week of St. Patrick’s Day when boiled cabbage and corned beef reigned. As for cabbage, we’re talking about a vegetable that, to…
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Gatherings in the Storm: Potluck Extraordinaire
As I write this on a snowy Friday afternoon, schools are closed, the kids are home from school, people are staying indoors, our local movie theater is closed for the night. As I look out the window at a landscape…
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Soup’s On!
Soup season is one of those times when food truly warms the body – and the soul. That big pot of meat and vegetables bubbling away on the stove not only warms the room, but fills the air with a…
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Don’t Dessert the Rhubarb!
Rhubarb season has begun. If you’re like me, you don’t necessarily choose rhubarb with all the other choices available. On the farm, we had a small patch of rhubarb when I was growing up, and my mother would occasionally dispatch…
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Make a Main Dish for Peanuts
I have a long relationship with peanut butter. It began with breakfasts of toast with peanut butter and jelly. Once I was in grade school, the centerpiece in my Roy Rogers lunch box was a PB&J sandwich. As I grew…
