Have you ever tried cutting a up a butternut squash? They aren’t the easiest to peel and chop, especially if they are quite large. When I saw that my regular grocery store had some that was peeled and cubed, ready to use, I was over the moon. There wasn’t a price listing anywhere, but I […]
It’s Secret Recipe Club reveal day. I am very pleased to announce that I was assigned Manu’s Menu. Here’s something you probably don’t know, I’ve been a Foodbuzz friend of Manuela’s blog for sometime. You can imagine my delight when I saw who’s blog I was assigned. Considering how many blogs I read and the […]
Growing up I thought cranberry sauce came from a can. I believed that the only way to eat cranberry sauce was in the jellied form. Open the top of the can, partially open the bottom to break the seal and slide out a perfectly tube of jellied cranberry sauce. It was actually kind of a […]
With our late summer here in Montana, the tomatoes are growing full on. My neighbor has a green house and his tomato plants are so big that they are growing out of the roof, it’s quite the site. His tomatoes that he’s growing outside of the green house aren’t fairing as well, but not because […]
This post is dedicated to my not daughter. Unbeliever of grilled pizzas. Recently on Facebook, she announced that she was going to make homemade pizza… Naturally I had to post a grilled pizza recipe. I took photo’s of all the steps, it’s good for the kids. We were at the cabin so I made […]
I am a domestic goddess. I make homemade jam for my family and neighbors and anyone one else willing to take a jar. I am a domestic goddess, except I need to vacuum and laundry is piled up and there are dishes to do, maybe some dusting too. Barring all that, I am a domestic […]
This weekend we went up to the cabin, like we do most of the Summer time. This time McGyver suggested we go for a stroll through the woods. A stroll through the nice shady woods on a hot summer day, who could resist. We loaded up in the Rhino and Becca was coming along (Summer […]
It’s no secret that my eyes are bigger than my stomach, my sense of time means that I always think I have more time than I do and I have an unrealistic view of how much fresh food we can consume in a week. I have this tendency to overbuy and then I find myself […]
It’s a weeknight, you’ve worked a long day, your favorite way to unwind is to cook. Except tonight, you really don’t feel like it, no energy. Of course you could pick up something on the way home, or you could order out or even have the whole family go out for dinner. But you don’t […]
Sometimes you read something, watch something on TV or someone says something and it just brings back waves of memories. It’s not that you’ve forgotten, it just hasn’t been front and center on your mind. Then BOOM, you can’t get it out of your mind. The stories and the reminiscing begin… Almost all of my […]
