Our Share of the Harvest

I’ve proclaimed my love of breakfast before–real breakfast, not Toaster Strudels or Egg McMuffins but a homemade breakfast.  You know, the kind that sends aromas of baked goods and coffee wafting upstairs and that faint sizzle that makes the people still in bed wonder if they’ll be treated to bacon or sausage (or scrapple, when [...]

For a long time, the only meatballs found in this house came in a Mamma Lucia’s bag. Sometimes they be over spaghetti with marinara, sometimes over egg noodles with a gravy, sometimes in a crock pot with a jelly + chili sauce. But always as these frozen little beef meat marbles out of the bag.  [...]

I’ve been meaning to post this for over a month but bees and baby showers don’t exactly mingle well with Christmas posts so I got backlogged.  But I was too happy with this shower to let it slide by un-blogged. It was actually a “sprinkle” hosted in honor of the second baby of one of [...]

This one is really a challenge: as part of the New Year, we were supposed to bake using an ingredient, tool or technique that is completely unfamiliar to us.  Since I’ve drop-kicked gluten out of my life for awhile, I figured I’d tackle the scary world of baking with gluten-free flour. Ha!  That’s so dramatic.  [...]

I choose/develop recipes featuring ingredients like lentils with my breath held and my fingers crossed because I know Greg will look at the grocery list, scrunch up one side of his nose and lip into a stinkface and ask “Lentils?  Am I going to like lentils?.”  To which I answer with an overly chipper “Sure!”  [...]