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 …