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In the bleak mid-winter
January is sometimes a rather bleak month, no matter where you live. The house always looks a little dreary after we put away the Christmas decorations but it's still too early to put the "spring"...
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A tale of two lentils and a two year old
Do you like lentils? I don't think I ever ate them until I was an adult. I grew up in the midwest where we ate a lot of great northern beans, navy beans, and kidney beans, but not lentils, blackeyed...
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Zucchini Garden Chowder
Got more zucchini? I bought some at a good price while we were up in the mountains last week and wished I had bought more as I contemplated all my favorite zucchini recipes. A number of years ago when...
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Cabbage Soup
Fall has definitely fallen here this past week. The temps have gone down and we have had several rainy days. It has been perfect weather for soup! We actually eat soups year round, but we especially...
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Soup weather
From the news I've seen lately it sounds like it's been cold just about everywhere this week. It's actually 41 degrees here today, but it has been damp and windy the last few days making it seem even...
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Bean soup
Dried beans are very nutritious, economical, tasty, and can easily fit into your schedule. There are many ways to cook them, including in a pressure cooker, a crock pot, or on top of the stove. Make...
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We’re getting closer
We have just over two weeks until the wedding. We have started purchasing a few more of the grocery items and I have begun making some of the cookie dough and stashing it in the freezer to be baked off...
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An abundance of okra
It seems like each year there is one crop in our small garden which outdoes itself. This year we have three things in abundance: okra, eggplant, and green beans. I'm already burned out on the eggplants...
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Aunt Camille’s Bean Soup
I don't have an Aunt Camille, but I do think it is a pretty name. Aunt Camille is the aunt of a former co-worker, Lenora, who gave me this recipe. I love bean soup and have generally used either Great...
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Cauliflower Soup
You can often find nice big heads of snowy white cauliflower at a good price in the fall and winter. If you get tired of eating raw cauliflower, this soup is a delicious alternative. I have been...
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A day of thankful anticipation
We are experiencing beautiful spring-like weather here in South Carolina today with temps in the low 60's. Rob did a little shopping this morning and worked in the yard a bit while I baked a couple of...
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A quiz and a recipe
I tried a new recipe last week that called for this ingredient: Do you know what these are? I plan to post that recipe soon, but I'll give you a chance to guess first. In the meantime I tried a new...
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The Midwestern Country Cookbook
A number of years ago I discovered The Midwestern Country Cookbook by Marilyn Kluger at the library and checked it out. I liked it so much that I asked for my own copy for Christmas that year. If you...
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Links to a few more new recipes
/> Today we have so many sources for new recipes -- magazines, newspapers, blogs, Pinterest, etc. Since I cook for just the two of us most of the time I often find I have small amounts of various...
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Waste not, want not
Last weekend I made the soup in the picture above from something that I normally throw away. Would you like to guess what the "green" element is in the soup? I will post the answer later in the week....
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The Mystery Soup
The mystery soup was made from radish leaves! Years ago when we visited with a French family in Bordeaux, France, we were served some soup made from radish leaves. Before this I would never have...
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A couple of new things
Last week a couple of my husband's students told him about a relatively new French bakery here in town. It is called the Legrand Bakery and it's located on Augusta Street near the Augusta Grill...
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A couple of new recipes
I haven't really meant to neglect this blog for such a long time but I've been a little uninspired. I didn't think my vast readership would enjoy reading about routine laundry, cleaning, mending, etc....
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A delicious soup to help recycle your Thanksgiving turkey
We celebrated Thanksgiving with our local children and grandchildren this past weekend. I cooked the turkey carcass overnight with a few vegetables in the crockpot and ended up with about a quart of...
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Barley Lentil Soup
Here is a soup recipe that you can make from ingredients that you keep on hand in your pantry and freezer. It is pretty quick to pull together and makes a nice lunch with some fruit and crackers or...
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