Andy’s away this week working out of town, so I thought I should take advantage of the opportunity to try some “out there” recipes for me. Most often I am good at picking new recipes to try, but every once in a while, something is so different from the norm […]

It had to be so. I’m in the middle of a wonderful explosion. Every day I head out to the garden and pick the cucumbers that are of pickling size and hide them away in the fridge, awaiting the moment I have enough to make homemade pickles. I also manage […]

“Erika, what are you doing?” “I’m baking of course, what does it look like?” “But it’s 96º outside and muggy!” Such is my devotion to this blog and my readers. And that is how much I truly love these bar cookies. They are worth turning on the oven for on […]

All week long I’ve been planning tonight’s post. After a whole week away, I wanted the post to be insightful and wonderful. My initial plan had been to post about a bar cookie that I made for last weekend that is really out of this world. But first, I feel […]

I tried really hard to come up with a last minute “wow” recipe to leave you with. I really did try. Unfortunately, when you plan at almost the last minute to go camping for a week, real cooking tends to take an aside from planning and packing. We’re in the […]

I had planned on posting about last night’s chicken dinner. It was an herbed lemon chicken cooked in the crock pot. And I should have known better. When I put it all in the pot, it smelled fantastic, and it smelled fantastic while cooking- bright and lemony and herby. I […]

One of the hazards of blogging is that a recipe that you’ve tried and enjoyed often gets shelved and forgotten in favor of something new. Since I’m always looking for something new to blog about, a recipe that I’ve talked about before obviously isn’t new. But I thought that today […]

And no, B will not be for beets. One of the few veggies that I cannot get my kids to taste- regardless how it’s prepared or whether or not we’ve grown it. Oddly enough, it used to be one of Abigail’s favorites when she was an infant. I would make […]

Trust me on this… get the ingredients you need to make this fantastic cilantro-lime butter and smear it on freshly roasted corn on the cob. A big thank you to applecrisp on the CLBB for sharing. Yum! We roasted our corn on the grill, and I left the cayenne out […]

Thank you everyone for the well wishes yesterday. I was a bit nervous to say the least. Yesterday went okay, essentially we did a Q&A session to introduce me to the newspaper readers and to just let them know that from time to time I’ll be popping in with a […]

Just a little bit. 🙂 I have to apologize because my posts over the last week or so have been pretty lame. Sorry, I’ve been a bit distracted this week. But there is a reason for my distractedness, and before I get to that reason, I have a sincere promise […]

This has been a bit of a quest! A few months back we were given some cudighi. I tucked it in the freezer and didn’t really think about it again until recently. I just didn’t know what to do with it, and to add to not knowing what cudighi tastes […]