Grilled Romaine? I have to admit that I didn’t think up grilled salads all on my own. There are many versions out there, some more complicated, and many using different ingredients. I like to keep this to the most basic elements – fresh, crisp romaine, a flavorful vinaigrette and some salty cheese. Perhaps you haven’t yet run across this idea…
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Back a few years ago, my sister gave me an ice cream maker for Christmas. We were both low carbing at the time and I used it quite a bit to make some sugar free ice creams, which weren’t as available then as they are now. It has been sitting in the spare room for a awhile, but this year,…
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Four years ago we started growing our own garlic. And by “we”, I mean Larry – as is often the case with growing things you can actually eat. I grow flowers, Larry grows food. But then, I cook the food, so he is not complaining. Anyway, this Garlic Scape Pesto is a great way to use something we get a…
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A couple years ago, I added a big extension on my front flower bed and filled it with a bunch of new daylilies, a big pretty hydrangea, some grasses, echinacea and probably some other stuff I’ll forget until it blooms again. [it’s not unusual for me to find a surprise in my garden that I planted and forgot about, which…
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It is such a luxury this year to have all the rhubarb I could want. Our oldest plants are finally 3 years old, which means we can pick from them pretty freely – yay! As my Mom reminded me on a another rhubarb post a few weeks ago, my grandmother loved rhubarb, and I can still remember the gooey sweet…
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