Summer 2025
Happy summer, all! It’s been an amazing (albeit a little crazy) one so far! We had 2 rounds of new windows put in over the last few months, replacing every single damn one of them. What a joy but what a process, though I’m thrilled …
My journey of cooking, gardening, preserving and more
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Snake River Farms Wagyu Steaks
If you’re looking to treat yourself to a delicious steak this holiday season, I thought I’d share my recent positive experience with ordering online from Snake River Farms. I’d not planned on posting this here but got to thinking that since it’s a COVID 2020 …
In the Veggie Garden 2017
Autumn has arrived yet again and I want to share with you some of the wonderful things I grew in my veggie garden this year. I wish that I could have featured all of these in recipes but in a gardening and cooking blogger’s life, …
Easy Lamb Recipes
Quite often I am awed and inspired by what my followers deem my most popular recipes because, quite often, they are not the recipes (nor the accompanying photos) that I aspire to be popular. A few people take the time to comment here on my …
Hello March
Hallelujah, it’s finally March. It’s still snowing here in Northern Illinois but March is here and with it the knowledge that spring is just around the corner. I admit that I tend to hibernate a bit in the cold winter months but now, as the …