spinach & carrot ramekins with bechamel

~ spinach & carrot ramekins with bechamel ~ This is a recipe adapted from one of my favorite cookbooks, the beautiful Apples for Jam by Tessa Kiros. You can make these in seperate little (2 inch) ramekins, or in one big glass casserole pan. This time I made them in a big pan and cut…

six senses saturday

seeing :: train graffiti hearing :: THIS ROCKIN’ SONG that I can’t get out of my head…Cheerio! 🙂 feeling :: the ground tremble beneath my feet as the trains pass by the Red Wing Depot smelling :: fresh spring air and THIS LOVELY PERFUME that the hubby gets for me every year. what a sweetie.…

simple spring pleasures

garden centers that smell like freshly cut flowers, dew and soil bistro boards with lovely lunch menus scrawled on them  peeling paint on white picket fences rusty tomato cages seed catalog dreams realized buttercream yellow pottery bowls for mixing pancake batter lavender linen spray newly installed clotheslines herb starts in chipped antique teacups watering cans…

bean & bacon soup

~ bean & bacon soup ~ A few days ago it got up to 62 degrees here in Red Wing Minnesota. For March, that’s kind of strange. We’ve had unseasonably warm weather all winter, but the first day like that makes me start dreaming about spring. Planting a little garden, dinner on the deck, road…