LIVING LIFE AND LEARNING ALL I CAN ALONG THE WAY
There’s really only one reason I always hope for extra tomatoes in my garden. Okay, make that two. One is salsa. Two is homemade tomato sauce. I don’t usually have much of a bumper crop, so I’ve only tried the tomato sauce thing once or twice before. This year, between my garden and our CSA,…
I’d really like to say that this salad represents a fall Michigan harvest, but I used avocado, so I can’t. Instead, it represents what I had in my possession as far as produce goes and wanting to make a salad for company at the last minute. However, it does have apples and toasted pumpkin seeds…
Sometimes you just need some easy and delicious comfort food. I had made something similar to this before, but I needed to use some particular ingredients. I had grilled some chicken the night before and had a lot leftover. I also had tomatoes and jalapeños from the CSA that I had to use. Looking for…
Before I get into tonight’s delicious summer recipe, I need to do a plug for our CSA. Did I tell you we joined a CSA this year? CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture — and is basically an association between members of the community and a local farm where you buy into a share of…
This is it. The one you’ve all been waiting for. At least, it’s what I had been waiting for my whole pizza-loving life. Grilled pizza. I’d heard of it, but being a grilling novice I had put off trying it until last year. I’m glad I didn’t wait any longer. Tom is normally my grill…
I have a confession to make. I always disliked Chicken Pot Pie. Only, I’m not sure I ever actually ate it to know that I didn’t like it. It was more the concept. I mean, meat pie? I don’t even like cooked fruit pies (much to my pie-loving mother’s chagrin and dismay). Plus, it usually…
I suppose it’s time for a 2015 Spring Garden Update. I feel like this has really been an ideal spring for gardening. The snow stopped in a timely fashion. We’ve had a few hot days, plenty of rain and generally weather on par for the season. I started my tomato seeds (and a few others)…
Unintended though it was, this past weekend was a weekend of making things — mostly food. On Friday, after a delicious surf ‘n turf meal (in which I almost burnt the house down when the grill caught fire, but miraculously managed to keep the steaks from getting charred or overcooked), I decided to try the…
My dad just told me today that my grandmother used tolook for the crocuses each spring and announce theirarrival — I wasn’t sure I had any anymore, but I found thislittle guy in the front yard today! Spring is my favorite season. Summer is my favorite, too. In fact, so is fall. But, I think…
I’m not sure if it’s the old age kicking in or what, but I had a bit of a brain fart at the grocery store yesterday. I knew I had seen a recipe on Pinterest that I wanted to try that was some sort of Asian / Ramen noodle bowl. It sounded like a fairly…