25 January 2025 Not the haggis.   I’m really not up to haggis this year, or any year.  I’d rather have guts than eat them!   I offer...

November 2024 When Eating an Entire Pumpkin Loaf is Inappropriate:   There’s the mini-loaf!   I found this recipe (among many others) in...

Mid-October 2024 Hey, Good Lookin’ by Hank Williams Say, hey, good lookin’   Whatcha got cookin?   How’s about cookin’ something up with...

1 October 2024 This recipe has been a work-in-progress for a few years.  Dear Husband has been the Master Chef behind this masterpiece. ...

September 2024 In remembrance of the passage last September of my Angel Cat, Gabrielle, from her country estate to her lofty place in...

August 2024 Usually, I make chicken enchiladas, but, this morning, I decided to go for the beef, and create The Whole Enchilada. This...

July Food Fest 2024 When this Jersey girl wed a boy from Nevada City, California (in Nevada City), I’d had no idea that my food combos...

Schoolhouse Fun 2024 Cowboy Pokies I’ve been scouting out this recipe for years.  This summer, I decided it was time for me to finally...

June 2024 In anticipation of the neighborhood pool-parties that Jolene the Party-Beagle will be crashing, I’ve decided to prepare a...

30 April 2024 Jovials:  Checkmate — The Checkerboard Crumbles On this date, this not-so-sudden development is ominous.  This reality is...

11 February 2024 Yesterday morning, I was busy making minestrone soup.  This morning, I commented to Dear Husband that I think I’ve got...

Winter Solstice 2023 This morning, I made oatmeal for breakfast. I’ve been known to eat oatmeal for dinner, or even an early lunch (or...

Halloween 2023 Sometime during October 1999, I was in the local, and the only, grocery store near my home-town of Newcastle, California...

American Oktoberfest 2023 My participation in Oktoberfest is sketchy, at best. I’m aware of its history, and, as an adolescent, was...

Labor Day Recipe 2023 Sometime during the mid-late 1990s, when I lived in Suburbia, I happened upon a recipe for black bean soup that...

4 July 2023 Native to western South America and Central America, the tomato was discovered in 1519 by Hernán Cortés. That Spanish...

Mid-February 2023 Peanut butter and jelly: It’s as American as apple pie, but apple pie, at least the store-bought kind, ain’t what it...

30 December 2022 When I was industriously labouring in Office World at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Dead Week was the name that one...

7 November 2022 This recipe has been altered slightly to allow for the inclusion of a sprinkling of dried cranberries. The prep work is...

28 March 2022 Grocery shopping is, of course, and, of late, a shock to the systems: financial, emotional, moral, and culinary. Today, I...