I have a poll off to the right here. I’m mostly just curious if there’s something specific my blog-readers would like to see more of here. Please pick the one that appeals to you most, and feel free to leave a comment here if you want to provide some commentary […]

I really do enjoy zucchini. I keep waiting for my zucchini plants to start going crazy, but so far I have been able to keep up. I’ve even let a few fruits go and get large for shredding for zucchini bread. And while I could eat zucchini sauteed, roasted, or […]

Yesterday was the perfect summer day to have friends over. It wasn’t hot, and it wasn’t cold. There was a fantastic breeze that kept it from getting too sticky, and Andy wanted to grill some ribs and chicken. It couldn’t have worked better. To accompany his BBQ chicken and ribs, […]

My first experience with oatmeal scotchies was as a young teenager. I had a friend who was 2 years younger than I, and we started hanging out Sunday afternoons for quite a while. We would go to her house after church every week and bake cookies and ride her horses. […]

Recently I decided to look into what else we could do as a family to continue greening up our lives and being more eco-friendly. We’ve been doing what we can as far as recycling and conserving energy goes. In fact, we’ve only turned on the A/C four days this year […]

Some people get excited about flowers. Some people get excited about more exotic bouquets, like fruit or cookies. For myself, nothing fills me with delight like that of the herbal variety. And when a friend stops by with a delightful handful of homegrown Italian Flat Leaf Parsley, I can’t help […]

The Cooking Light Bulletin Board is my favorite place to gather recipes. I’ve been on the board for so long that I know who’s tastes match mine and I can always count on someone there having an answer to a question. This recipe is one that I’ve been making for […]

When we got back from our camping vacation a week ago, I found a monster zucchini in the garden. It had been sitting on the conter all week, and I finally decided it needed to be dealt with. I cut it into wedges and shredded it up and ended up […]

A big welcome to my new nephew, Isaac Christopher. Happy Birthday sweet boy! And congratulations Mom and Dad-enjoy! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

I don’t really have much to post about today, so I thought I’d share a garden update. I’ve really been learning a lot about gardening. I have decided that I need to keep a garden notebook so that I remember things for future reference. For example: Many of my tomatoes […]

*This book review is a cross-post. I enjoyed it so much, and feel it so worth reading, that I am sharing it on both Tummy Treasure, and The Savvy Bookworm. by Barbara Kingsolver Barbara has been making a few appearances on my reading list lately. This one is a bit […]

I am a complete risotto novice. I’ve only ever attempted it once, to rather poor results. I’ve never even eaten it out- risotto is just not common on menus here in NE Wisconsin. My one attempt at risotto was a rather awful butternut squash risotto that just didn’t do it […]