Well, the peaches are here!  This week I decided to go ahead and order a few cases of peaches from a local farm who orders them in from Michigan.  Sunny Hill Farms is also where I got my blueberries and my strawberries this year.  Every time I go to pick […]

As it turns out, this new Amish cookbook is going to be well-used I think.  This past weekend for Sunday Company Dinner, everyone spent some time leafing through it.  There’s just so many recipes that sound fantastic, and actually very few that are just beyond strange.  Our dinner this past […]

I finally was able to pick some tomatillos.  I’ve been picking them over the last few weeks, as some turned yellow and some split their husks, which are both signs that the tomatillos are ready.  The one thing I will say though, is that they’ve been on the small side.  […]

A few weeks back, while I was camping, I left you all with a post on making your own basic vinaigrette.  It was a post I’d been meaning to do for some time, once I’d figured out how easy a homemade vinaigrette really is.  While there are still moments where […]

The salad that I’ve been waiting for finally made its appearance last night! I had enough assorted tomatoes in the garden to make my first Heirloom Tomato salad.  I have to tell you, I can taste the difference in each and every heirloom tomato.  There’s a flavor there that simply […]

The other day the kids requested a trip to the bookstore after Abigail’s ballet class.  Bookstore? I’ve been… sort of needing inspiration this week, and nothing gets me going like a new cookbook.  So I was only too willing to “acquiesce to their request.”  It was a successful trip, with […]

Two nights ago I had a dud.  And not just any dud- but a big one.  I’d made a recipe from my “A Year In A Vegetarian Kitchen” which I have heard recommended over and over- a recipe for Potatoes and Swiss Chard in a Green Curry Sauce.  How could […]

Monday morning the mailman dropped off a brand new issue of Vegetarian Times just as I sat down to figure out a weeks worth of menus.  I decided that was providence and flipped through the issue, looking for something to inspire me.  Sure enough, there was a section on avocados, […]

I keep meaning to do an update over in the Garden Notes, I swear every day the garden shows me something new.  We’ve been enjoying the first tomatoes, beans, carrots and scallions, and any day now the eggplant are going to be ready to pick. (What am I going to […]

I never know what people think we mean when we say we’re going camping for a week.  What do you think of? I guess I grew up going camping every summer- we would pack up the van and go pitch a tent in the middle of the woods for weeks […]

My family loves it when I make pie.  It’s one of those things that no matter what flavor it is, we all enjoy it.  Pie really is one of the best ways to enjoy fresh fruit, in my opinion.  Pie making itself is fairly easy, but the one task that […]

With the fair recently in town, I once again succumbed to the allure of freshly squeezed lemonade.  Why, oh why is that stuff so fabulously good- so much so that I’ll pay any price for a glass full of this delightfully sweet lemon concoction.  Here in the Midwest where citrus […]