What a gorgeous day in the Mississippi river valley. Hot, but breezy, which makes all the difference. We enjoyed a lovely lunch of homemade garden veggie and chicken soup with garlic rosemary flatbread. The rosemary in our little garden plot is so happy! I read a book a few years back where the main character…
“It’s certain that fine women eat a crazy salad with their meat!” ~William Butler Yeats I wasn’t quite sure how to approach this day. It started out overcast, so I didn’t want to hang my laundry on the clothesline just in case it rained. Then the sun came out so I started a load of…
Grace and I have been busy in the kitchen again…I made a new batch of tomato jam with changes to the recipe this time. Can’t wait to share that spicy little number with you! I think it will be fantastic on homemade fries served alongside a grilled ribeye and a crispy crunchy green salad. While…
Have you ever tried using these handy parchment cooking bags? We love them for their quick cooking time, easy clean up and for the beautiful, healthy, moist meat dishes you can make in them. Wonderful for chicken and fish! (To try one of our favorite chicken recipes using this method go HERE.) for the salmon:…
feeling ~ soft yarn, a cool breeze as I sit in the shade watching Jeff and Grace swim tasting ~ grilled pizza seeing ~ this wonderful pile of books…some are new, some are re-reads, and the rest are books that I started and never finished… my summer reading list! hearing ~ David Garrett smelling ~…
We’ve been grilling pizza again and I have a whole list of sweet and savory recipes that I’m eager to share with you. First up….savory blueberry pizza! I know, sounds kinda’ weird. But, TRUST me, it’s amazing. Blueberries are just as wonderful in savory dishes as they are in sweet desserts. They’re not actually a…
I have so enjoyed inventing my own salad dressings, and now that I’ve been doing this for awhile, I have quite the stockpile of yummy recipes to choose from when I decide to make a salad. I don’t even go down the salad dressing aisle at the grocery store anymore. Did you know it’s almost…
Today my friend Nancy and I skipped town for a few hours and had lunch at the beautiful Nesbitt’s Oasis Eatery, located on the grounds of Nesbitt’s Nursery and Apple Orchard. It had been a little while since I had visited last, and it’s still as gorgeous as ever. We sat under a pretty pergola…
I enjoyed a bottle of this refreshing, slightly sweet strawberry apple hard cider after our fishing trip a couple weeks ago. Great accompaniment to a good book and a lazy hour or two on a backyard hammock. Love this stuff! I’mtrying the blueberry next. The cute, painted metal bottle will make a cute bud vase.…
Clafoutis (sounds like kla-foo-tee) is a flan-like French dessert that I like to make during the height of cherry picking season. Traditionally made with black cherries, almonds and lemon…I make mine with pretty pink and yellow Rainier cherries, also known as “Queen Ann” cherries. I like the flavor more than the traditional black, but do…