Tummy Treasure

This salad doesn’t need much of an introduction, or a long tale about how it came about being made in my kitchen.  It’s been hot and muggy out this week, and cooking anything has been far from appealing.  Unable to come up with any ideas for a cold supper, I spent some time trolling [...]

Do you have one of these?  If not, and you have a grill, then you need one.  You really, really do.  I had no idea how much we needed one until we had one!   We were given one not too long ago, and have made much use of it ever since.  The first thing [...]

Many, many years ago, I stumbled across a recipe for Fettuccine and Tofu In Finger-Licking Peanut Sauce.   I loved thinking about the idea of a peanut sauce for a stir fry, but at the time, I was a non-tofu person and completely discarded the recipe as something I could use.  As time ticked by [...]

I don’t know what to call these things.

I found them at Pioneer Woman’s Tasty Kitchen website- were there are so many drool-worthy recipes, it’s hard to pick just one.  They were called Kit Kat Bars, and based on the title alone, I had to make them.  But when I looked at the ingredients [...]

A few weeks ago we were invited to a friends house for lunch, and I was asked to bring a dessert.  Andy had asked if I could make my Rhubarb Custard Bars, so I picked up the ingredients to make it and intended to do so.

And then something happened… I’m not totally recalling [...]

After months and months of waiting, it has finally arrived.  Strawberry season here in Wisconsin is officially underway.

Our favorite patch is Sunny Hill Farms in Suamico.  We’ve never been disappointed picking there, and it is well worth the drive.  I also placed my order today for the blueberries which will be available in [...]

Last weekend was recital weekend for us.  This year, with Abigail’s added dance classes, that meant that we were going to be busy all weekend.  Between her dancing and Andy’s light-making magic, we were going to be very busy, and food was going to take a back-seat for a few days.  The problem with [...]

I have never had broccoli raab before- also known as rapini.  I see an awful lot of recipes for it, but I’ve definitely never seen it for sale in my neck of the woods.  However, when I was looking at seeds for the garden this spring, I found lots of them for broccoli raab, [...]

I grew up in a camping family.  Every summer Mom and Dad would pack up the family, canoes, tents, bedding and sustenance and haul everything out to the middle of nowhere to spend some quality time together.  Sometimes it was just for a few days and sometimes for as long as two weeks.   For [...]

I know what you’re thinking.  It’s hot, it’s summery, and I’m sharing a muffin recipe. Yes, yes I am.  I am always in the mood to bake- even when it’s full fledged salad season, there’s nothing like homemade bread to accompany that salad.  And in my book, muffins are always good for breakfast, afternoon [...]

Last week while the kids and I were waiting in line to check out at the grocery store, we were looking at the magazine covers.  Most of them really made me wish that stores would stop stocking headline grabbing magazines in the checkout aisle where my kids can read many things that I wish [...]