Well, friends, summer is long gone, and party and holiday season is upon us. Family gatherings, pot-luck parties, gift exchanges, and cozy nights snuggled up with…
So, you say you don’t like cranberry sauce? You think it’s just a strange, ridged, gelatinous cylinder that jiggles and slurps out of some old…
People have been eating coffee cake for centuries. Although the recipes evolved through time and place in the world, having a sweet cake with your…
Feel like having a nice warm slice of yeasty, cheesy goodness but don’t have hours to wait for traditional bread dough? Well, you’re in luck…
Boeuf Bourguignon, or Beef Burgundy, is a classic French peasant dish made most famous by the late, great Julia Child. Though the French pronunciation is…
Comfort food, at its heart, is the epitome of simplicity, and there are few things a homesteader appreciates more than simplicity. Potatoes. Corn. Onion. Milk. …
With the arrival of the coldest weather so far this fall, I’ve found myself eating a lot of soup and stew. I’m the kind of…
More often than not, tuna salad is made with a heavy mayo and hard-boiled egg. While I admit to enjoying that version, I fell in…
Who doesn’t love pizza? We Americans sure do; we eat about 100 acres of pizza a year! At its simplest, it’s often its best, and…
Buttery, flaky, creamy, savory rounds of puff pastry, spinach, and cheese… That’s what I’ve made for you this week, and my family and friends couldn’t…
Ah, summer… wildflowers blooming; picnics with loved ones; hot days in the garden; cool evenings in the yard. If you’re like me, one of the…
If you’ve never had, or heard of, miso, let me enlighten you. If I were to say, “Japanese fermented soybean paste”, I’d probably lose a…