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Erika

We Be Jammin!

You know what I love about strawberries in Wisconsin?  There are different varieties!  And different varieties mean that you can go from patch to patch for some time, because no two patches...

How To Host A Pizza Party

This was such a fun idea!  Last week I decided that I wanted to make pizza for our Sunday Company Dinner.  Since it’s summer, our group dwindles sometimes, so with pizza I...

Perhaps The Adaptation Is Even Better

I still have cookies on the brain.  After nibbling on those chocolate chip cookies all week, I really had a desire to see how that dough fared with white chocolate and macadamia...

The Burger Challenge

Last week, my husband actually challenged me to come up with a veggie or bean burger that I think he’ll enjoy.  I keep playing with vegetarian food while he’s out of town...

A Tale Of Bacon

I’ve been meaning to share a few things here on my blog, but then things have come up or a new recipe caught my eye and got some attention.  I keep a...

In Need Of A Cookie

It’s been far too long since I’ve made homemade cookies.  I was feeling like a bad mom, and feeling like a bad wife, sending my husband off to work without homemade goodies...

Discovering My Love For Greens

I guess I really like chard! Before sampling this rainbow chard from my garden, I had only ever had spinach, as far as a green goes- and as far as I know,...

Andy Says…

“It looked really good and tasted great! Tell your blog readers that.” …but I didn’t get a picture of the finished product. For Sunday Company Dinner this week, I had decided that...

Loving The Rainbow Chard

One of my intentions with this year’s garden was to explore greens that I was unfamiliar with.  I tend to shy away from greens other than spinach in general, which is a...

Definitely not a well-balanced meal…

but, oh, was it good!  We did end up heading out the the berry patch yesterday morning.  I wanted to pick some simply for eating and sharing.  Usually we pick berries and...

So I’ve Been Having This Dream…

Several nights this week I had a similar dream.  In the dream, I was grocery shopping, or about to go grocery shopping, and I had this sense of urgency to stock up...

Now That’s Better

Other than one bit of rogue code that I can’t seem to get rid of, I think I am happy with this one.  It took a wee bit of editing, and I...