it’s november, so of course we need soup…french onion mushroom soup….
I have a slight obsession with French Onion Soup. I’ve written about it before and my quest to find and develop a recipe I really liked and I think that was in 2015. I have been fiddling and fiddling...
View Articlethe cookie chronicles 2022
The Cookie Chronicles 2022 – amaretti, pignoli, chocolate chip with orange and coconut, white chocolate cinnamon chip oatmeal, and peanut butter cookies!
View Articlefrugal kitchen magic: leftovers become roast pork chili
Groceries have gotten so ridiculously expensive. I’m back to shopping specials and patronizing stores with a better dollar value like Aldi. I am also trying to not waste food and use leftovers...
View Articlea cooking week
It has been a week of cooking. Right now I have a chicken roasting in the oven, Julia Child style. Along with the roast chicken, I am making a salad with poppyseed dressing. I’m making at the way...
View Articlesemi-homemade cream of celery soup.
So what do you do when you end up with two giant heads of celery less than a week? You make soup. I went through recipes for cream of celery soup and I didn’t really want something that delicate. I...
View Articlea new summer salad for me
There is a summer salad, that Wegman’s makes and it’s a corn and bean salad. For a store made salad it’s not bad, but it’s too sweet. And that is the thing with a lot of salads involving beans and...
View Articlehappy pie accident
This is a semi homemade kind of a cooking post. Languishing in the chest freezer. I found a random graham cracker crust. I had been thinking of making a pie because I had leftover cherries and a...
View Articleanatomy of a soup
It’s a rainy day. It has been damp and rainy and then gray and damp and now it’s raining again. It is the first day of fall, and a perfect day to make soup. Potato leek soup came to mind. I had all of...
View Articleroasted curried squash soup
I am supposed to be sitting still for five days. I had a rather large area on the back of my head go under the little scalpels of a Mohs surgery. But I’m not lifting anything, and I do have to move...
View Articlechristmas traditions
Yes, these are cookies I baked this year, and they are on a beautiful vintage white milk glass cake stand that I got at the Smithfield Barn a few years ago! Christmas is a magical time and season for...
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