Gluten Free Cookbooks: Gluten-Free Baking Classics
Caution: Overuse of this book will cause extreme plumpness. Do not blame me if your pants don’t fit next month! Today we continue our Friday series of gluten-free cookbook recommendations. Today’s book...
View ArticleGluten Free Cookbooks: Gluten-Free on a Shoestring
Happy Friday! Today we continue our GF cookbook series, and Gluten-Free on a Shoestring is my true favorite. Of course I picked it up because its title suggests that this woman has found a way to cook...
View ArticlePioneer Style Pumpkins
The beautiful pumpkin awaits a good roasting. I am fully aware that pumpkin puree can be purchased in a store. Some lovely people somewhere have grown pumpkins, built a factory, and then shipped...
View ArticleCake
The fat lady has given us her last note. It’s over. The Christmas presents have been dispersed, the Bible story was read out loud, and the guests have returned home. It was a wonderful Christmas,...
View ArticleCommunion
Just in case you fear that I never have a serious thought in my head, here is some proof that I occasionally do ponder something deep… Where we attend church, our congregation takes Communion together...
View ArticleWhy I Cannot Actually Be an Organic Farmer
In my mind, I am a nature-loving, dirt-plowing, animal-raising, vegetable-loving fiend. I whip open the latest copy of Mother Earth News and I read the latest articles on how to live just like my...
View ArticleToday We Buy Leftover Plants and Wait in Expectation
Joy of all joys, today we had some time to go to my favorite garden center. When I become rich and famous I’m going to run wildly through their aisles and buy all sorts of delightful things for my...
View ArticleOh, Love of Cooking–Where Hast Thou Gone?
Adorable dishware, waiting for delicious beverages that I have no plan on making. I type this from my kitchen. It’s a lovely room, with all my retro dishware and antique tablecloths and vintage chairs....
View ArticleThe One Ingredient You Must Have for the Holidays
I type this from my desk in my bedroom. In my kitchen, loudly calling my name, sits a pan of brownies that the kids and I made the other night. Now, the brownies are delicious, but the peanut butter...
View ArticleLet’s Watch the Very Non-Asian Woman Buy a Wok from Goodwill Then Make Dinner...
A few weeks ago we had a little potluck party at our house, which was fun because they all brought food so I didn’t have to make dinner. Instead I spent two hours making a chocolate cake that was worth...
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