It’s a good start,

It’s a good start,

to a new year. We celebrated in our low-key way. Playing board games, watching a movie, staying up to watch the ball drop, and make plenty of noise. We also made a new treat. Mini Cheesecakes! You can get the recipe here at PBS.org They 

Teriyaki Rice Bowl Recipe

Teriyaki Rice Bowl Recipe

Love teriyaki rice bowls, but hate buying processed food. I like good food, but don’t care for meals that take a super long time to prepare.  Coming home from afternoon activities, I more than occasionally come home and need to cook dinner in a hurry. 

Onion Goggles? Really?

While browsing a local cooking supply type store, I saw these– Ridiculous-looking goggles for the cook (or prep cook, whichever it may be) to wear while cutting onions. Now I have thought safety goggles, even for cooking, are a good thing (especially in my kitchen), 

Adventures in Bread Making

Adventures in Bread Making

I love bread with dinner. Warm bakery bread. Artisan bread. Sourdough bread. Yum.  I love warm bread with soup and pasta, but I hate going to the store just for artisan or sourdough bread. I really wish I was savvy enough to make my own, 

Cream of Yukon Gold Potato Soup

Cream of Yukon Gold Potato Soup

I love soup, and have lamented for years that I could not make good soup.  But that is a thing of the past. Over the past couple of months, I have been experimenting in the kitchen, wandering way out of my comfort zone. This has 

Too many ripe all at once…

Which means we need to freeze much of our blueberries. We will be in supply for a while, so to keep the picked ones edible, we freeze them. We cannot eat them that fast 🙂 we have so many. It’s best to freeze right after