It seems we’ve been on a streak lately with discovering new-to-us foods.  The most recent new-to-us food is edamame- also known as soybeans.  I live in farm country, and to me, I’ve never been interested in edamame because it is soybeans.  Soybeans are something that farmers grow… they sell some […]

Two weeks ago, Andy had indicated a desire to do some smoking.  He hasn’t really done any yet this year, and when I asked him what he wanted to smoke, he really didn’t know.  So when I was out picking up a few things I made the decision to challenge […]

AS happens from time to time, I take a package of something out of the freezer.  I’m positive there is fish in this package, but what kind, and how it was frozen is a bit of a mystery.  Then it begins to thaw.  There is the unmistakable appearance of a […]

I have always wanted to like tofu.  In so many of the magazines and cookbooks I read, I see recipe after recipe for tofu, and the recipe always sounds great-until you get to the tofu part.  I have tried it a few times.  The times I’ve enjoyed it was when […]

Here I find my son, hiding behind the pea bushes, helping himself to a little snack.  Normal kids sneak into the pantry and find the cookies, or sneak into the freezer and find the ice cream.  Not my kids.  There is nothing they enjoy more than a freshly picked pea […]

How is it that this event has been going on for a full 12 months now, and I have only first heard of it! I was so excited yesterday when I stumbled on Andrea’s Recipes and saw the blogging event, Grow Your Own. The event is simple, you simply prepare […]

I have a problem with lunch time when we travel.  The quick and easy way to do lunch is to do sandwiches and take them along, or bring the ingredients and assemble at our destination.  The problem with sandwiches is that I don’t eat lunch meat, and actually, neither does […]

We had a great weekend- I sure hope all of my readers had as wonderful of a weekend as we did.  We had a fantastic time visiting with family, and were saddened when our time to leave came upon us. We all spent a fair amount of time visiting, playing, […]

You’re going to love these Simple S’mores Bars. I had a s’mores type cookie in mind for this coming holiday weekend, but I really wasn’t finding what I was looking for.  The only thing I knew for sure was that I wanted it to be a bar cookie, and that […]

And the grand total is 24 pints of strawberry jam, 10 half-pints of blueberry-strawberry jam, 10 half-pints of strawberry-peach jam, 13 quarts of frozen whole berries, 7 quarts of sugared berries, and a big ole bowl of cleaned and ready-to-eat berries in the fridge.  I’ll tell you, the best part […]

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 seem to be ripe and ready at the same time.  Two weeks ago we went and picked the […]

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 thought I could be prepared for just a few people, or a lot of people.  But how best […]