Last week, I made a batch of homemade fennel sausage which I’ve done a billion times before to have on hand for sauces, pizza or breakfast. Rather than follow my own recipe, I winged it. I was positive using too much … Continue reading
The best thing about pickle season besides the pickles are my lilies. Mother nature rocks! Getting used to living in the country has been bumpy.Trying to remember every item, during my weekly shopping marathon, that we might need for the … Continue reading
Zucchini blossoms are sunshine on a stem. Magnetic but too hot to touch – until now. Every cook has that elusive dish that is a little bit scary to make. Deep fried zucchini blossoms is mine. I rarely deep fry … Continue reading
It was less of a barn raising and more of a barn covering. A covering of what one hundred and ten years of hard weather can do to a barn. We thought about just pulling it down. We’d never build … Continue reading
Every blogger has a blogger muse. OK, maybe not a muse but a blogger who inspires you to try harder, reach higher, dig deeper, be all you can be… Deb Perlman, creator of the Smitten Kitchen writes, as Martha Stewart … Continue reading
I have a confession to make. During the summer, while we’re at the farm we eat dessert every night. Partly because we spend so much time working outside, we feel justified in ‘having a little treat’. The other part is … Continue reading
When you’re the mother of three little girls who my girls are twenty seven love bread and when they were little would choose it, hands down, over all other food, you bake a lot of homemade bread. I was constantly on the … Continue reading
Even if I didn’t love zucchini everything, I would grow them just for the spectacular blooms. The first time Ralph and I were in Rome I saw flats of sunshine yellow over-sized flower blossoms for sale at a giant vegetable … Continue reading
When friends arrive for the weekend and are kind enough to bring lovely ice cream bowls as my hostess gift, I do what any food blogger would do – I make ice cream to photograph. I could fib and say … Continue reading
In Italy, pizza sauce is not an over embellished ‘used to taste like tomatoes’ kind of sauce. It’s a clean pure tomatoey not sure that’s a word sauce sometimes too salty usually not. I’ve eaten pizza from one end of Italy to … Continue reading
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