Marking the arrival of a special date, holiday, or season is easy to do with cookies, and while it’s such a temporary thing–after all, cookies disappear fast!–it’s somehow an important celebration of daily existence. And even if you don’t have a lot of time to spare today, you can whip up something special. Here are… Read More
To have a homestead-style Thanksgiving there is much preparation. It starts somewhere in February when I begin to longingly gaze into my seed catalogs to start planning my garden and herb beds. Since we live in northern Ohio we can’t start planting until around Memorial Day. It is our goal to plant almost everything that… Read More
Yes, you read that right. Green tomatoes. Try not to think about it too hard. We have loads of green tomatoes and I hate to let them freeze on the vine but I don’t have the room to pull up the vines and hang them until the tomatoes turn red. I needed another idea. I’d… Read More
Since true clafoutis are always made with cherries, calling this a cherry clafouti is redundant. Sorry about that. I did it to differentiate between clafouti and flaugnarde, which is like a clafouti only made with some other kind of fruit. According to Wiki, the proper word is Clafoutis, from the verb clafir, meaning “to fill”… Read More
Say HELLO to Larissa! Q. What are your favorite things to cook? I suppose I go through phases. I am always trying to learn how to do something new, so I will spend a month trying to get something right. Once I have it down, I usually add it to my monthly/weekly regime. Recently I… Read More
One of my all-time favorite Google search terms for people landing on my blog was this one, from about two years ago: MY STUPID BREAD WON’T RISE. That poor person! I wished I coulda gone right to their kitchen to help them. Here’s my quick rundown on some of the most common bread problems I… Read More
any MSG free recipes and substitutes for bouillon used to make my own, as the homemade recipes all contain flavored granules or bouillon which contain MSG
My MIL made the only thing I actually liked using the old fashioned citron fruit mix – a very soft cookie. Not a bar, just a regular cookie. Not particularly spicy, and more sponge cake like than a normal cookie. For some reason, the citron tasted good in this particular cookie. Other than in this... Read More
When I was a kid, my aunt used to can crab apples that I loved. Never thought to ask her for the recipe when she was alive, but a friend has a crab apple tree so loaded with crab apples, that some of the branches are touching the ground. When she told me that I... Read More
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