I’m an admitted ice cream junkie. If I had an ice cream maker (and believe me, it won’t be much longer until I do), I’d be making ice cream at home, putting all that organic raw cream to good use. Sadly, I have to get my ice cream fix in Grand Haven, at Sweet Temptations…
A few weeks ago, my friend Jean gave me a book she found at an antique store in South Haven. Circa 1950ish, and decked out in a very apropos cross-stitched-look cover, it’s called Betty Crocker’s Guide to Easy Entertaining: How to Have Guests and Enjoy Them. Jean referred me to the chapter entitled “Stag Parties.”…
Sometimes my day job as a managing editor at a major Christian publishing house brings lovely opportunities my way, like the chance to try a recipe or two from fiction writer Amy Clipston, author of the Kauffman Amish Bakery Series. I had several recipes to choose from, but since it’s cherry season in Michigan and…
Raspberries are one of the best things about summer. The week they finally show up at the farmers’ market, I find myself handing over four dollars for a single pint, because let’s face it, the fragile beauties are never cheap, whether they’re grown locally or not. It’s not hard to eat them up, either –…
I love leeks. I know, I know, they look like giant green onions, and how can you love something like that? Well, they’re not true onions, although they’re related, and they have the mildest bit of onion-y flavor. I bought them on a whim at the farmers’ market in Chicago a few years ago thinking…
I ate my first frittata just a few years ago at Cafe Lula in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, where I was living at the time. It was full of tomatoes, spinach, and cheese, and arrived in a 6-inch white china ramekin. It was delicious, but since it was available at such a close venue, I didn’t…