I’m always on the lookout for new Girl Party Food. You know, the kind of food you can pick up and eat with your fingers. The kind with delicate flavors and textures. The kind of food men usually prefer to eschew in favor of meatballs on toothpicks and pigs in blankets. Several weeks ago, I…
Yesterday, Eli got his second deer of the season, this one with his rifle. He looks sedate in the photo here, but that’s deceiving. He was practically bursting with adrenaline. At any rate, I will now have about 175 pounds of venison in the freezer – which means I won’t be buying beef for another…
I don’t understand all the hullabaloo that goes on about making pie crust. I know it’s easy to buy a pre-made crust in a foil pan or the Pillsbury ready-to bake crusts that you just unroll and bake. But seriously, folks, homemade pie crust is incredibly simple, tastes better, and is free of the additives…
Risotto and I didn’t make friends right away. I think it was the first recipe I tried – it involved a lot of cheese and butter. So much, in fact, that it was overwhelmingly rich (and it takes a lot to overwhelm me). I’m going to blame my overly high expectations on my favorite television…
I am a pumpkin junkie in every way but pie. Odd, isn’t it? Most people who love pumpkin are big fans of pumpkin pie. Me, I’m a berry pie girl. But if something other than pie claims to be pumpkin flavored, I’ll buy it. My favorite coffee drink is Starbucks’ Pumpkin Spice Latté. My favorite…
Fall has almost abandoned us to winter here, but the end of the zucchini crop keeps lingering. I have a feeling that the heavy frost that covered my part of the world last night means the end has come, but there are still several quart-size freezer bags of grated summer squash in my freezer. This…