Okay, so we aren’t Irish. I did go to a Catholic grade school called St Patrick’s when I was a kid, but since probably half of the students were Italian, I don’t think I gained any Irish points there. W...
There can definitely be a huge downside to being a food blogger. When you have to write a blog post about a recipe that turned out particularly well, like this Five Spice Pork Stew, but the last batch you made is gone al...
It’s that time of year with which I have a love/hate relationship. The tomatoes are starting to come in the back door in multiple 5 gallon buckets now, and that means that no matter what else is going on, they must...
If you spend any time on this blog at all, you are probably already aware of my extreme affection for cornbread. In the winter months, we have it often, alongside chili, stew and soups. This version though, for us anyway...
Ah, January! Cold, windy, snowy, bitter. You make me want to hunker down and pull a pile of warm blankets over my head for a few weeks. Unfortunately such behavior is frowned upon in our modern world – even if you ...
A Super-easy, No Knead Yeast Bread So, yeast bread, right? Hard. Messy. Chancy. No. Okay – some yeast breads are those things. Like Brioche maybe. But today, I’m telling you about a yeast bread that’s s...
When the weather gets blustery and the chill in the air sticks around all day, you know it’s time to get some big pots of savory stuff going on the stove. It’s soup weather, stew weather – and, most imp...
… struggling to find normal. Oh my gosh – this is so hard. If you visit here very often, you may have seen my last post for Cranberry Eggnog Bread, which was also about my sister in law’s illness. Unfor...
Okay, Okay – so they are actually just plain old humble prunes. “Prune” is not a word that brings out a positive thought for a lot of people, I realize. I figure if the package can call them “Drie...
We are getting this first snow of the year as I am writing this today. Just some flurries, and I doubt we will see much in the way of accumulation, but still. The day it first snows is not my favorite day of the year. I ...