Big Brownie Bites
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. ...
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Sep 1
Angel Cake
September 2024 In remembrance of the passage last September of my Angel Cat, Gabrielle, from her country estate to her lofty place in...
Aug 1
The Whole Enchilada
August 2024 Usually, I make chicken enchiladas, but, this morning, I decided to go for the beef, and create The Whole Enchilada. This...
Jul 1
East-Coast Food Combos
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...
Jun 12
School’s Out For Summer! - Cowboy Pokies
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...
Jun 1
The 7-Layer Bean Dip
June 2024 In anticipation of the neighborhood pool-parties that Jolene the Party-Beagle will be crashing, I’ve decided to prepare a...
Apr 30
Jovials - Checkmate
30 April 2024 Jovials: Checkmate — The Checkerboard Crumbles On this date, this not-so-sudden development is ominous. This reality is...
Feb 11
Borrowed Opulence
11 February 2024 Yesterday morning, I was busy making minestrone soup. This morning, I commented to Dear Husband that I think I’ve got...
Dec 6, 2023
The Lost Art of Oatmeal
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...
Oct 22, 2023
Luscious Tastes of Autumn
Halloween 2023 Sometime during October 1999, I was in the local, and the only, grocery store near my home-town of Newcastle, California...
Oct 5, 2023
Burt Wolf, Master Chef
American Oktoberfest 2023 My participation in Oktoberfest is sketchy, at best. I’m aware of its history, and, as an adolescent, was...
Sep 4, 2023
Black Bean Soup
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...
Jul 4, 2023
The Tomato is History
4 July 2023 Native to western South America and Central America, the tomato was discovered in 1519 by Hernán Cortés. That Spanish...
Feb 15, 2023
P B & J
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...
Dec 30, 2022
Dead Week Special: The Cookie Rises
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...
Nov 7, 2022
Scottish Oatcakes
7 November 2022 This recipe has been altered slightly to allow for the inclusion of a sprinkling of dried cranberries. The prep work is...
Mar 28, 2022
The Corporate Cookie Crumbles
28 March 2022 Grocery shopping is, of course, and, of late, a shock to the systems: financial, emotional, moral, and culinary. Today, I...
Mar 22, 2020
The Mother Crumbles
Spring 2020 Goodness Gracious! Mother and her cookies have crumbled! I knew from the moment I saw this warning on the packaging: NEW...
Aug 5, 2019
The Cookie Re-Crumbled
August 2019 Update The decade’s end is approaching, and I see no sign in sight of the advertising geniuses having re-built that span...
Jan 2, 2019
The Pastie
January 2019 Rainy Day Repast: The Pastie I used to call this culinary creation The Paste-ee, not Past-ee, to tease my husband. This...
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