A Warm and Hearty Dinner – Beef Burgandy

Tired of turkey and ham leftovers…again!  Beef.  It’s what’s for dinner.  This hearty recipe is easy, delicious and makes great leftovers for taking to work the next day.  Serve with egg noodles or rice, a nice bread or rolls, salad or vegetable.
Beef Burgandy
INGREDIENTS:
2 lb lean beef, cut into cubes
2 T bacon drippings or oil
1 medium [...]

Apple Crisp Recipe

I wish I could send you the awesome smell that fills the house while this is baking! Use this topping for other crisps such as pear or peach, even a combination of fruits. Adjust the amount of sugar depending or the tartness of your fruits and the spices as to your family’s tastes.

Orchid Happiness

A couple of years ago I asked for an orchid rather than cut flowers for Mother’s Day. After the blooms faded the plant stayed healthy but didn’t bloom again until I re-potted it with new orchid soil from MiracleGro. Since then I have divided and will divide again after this bloom event.

A Quilt for Baby Zoie

I had to make a bib too! The front brown dotted fabric is a pocket…inside that is a detatchable keeper for a pacifier or small teether or toy.

Kitchen Now Open!

We are REALLY enjoying the new kitchen floor AND the new dishwasher! Although this project took longer than expected (isn’t that always the case?) we are now open and functioning with a punch list of details still left on the to-do list.

This is Vacation? or New Kitchen Tile!

Jonathan is back in school but Scott has taken this week as “vacation” to work on installing new tile in our kitchen. The renovation is great fun when you’re a kid! We used lots of 3 day weekends to tackle projects around the house when I was growing up. What will Jonathan’s memories be of [...]

Square Foot Gardening

The first picture was taken yesterday; a bed of squash, cucumber, cantaloupe along with okra, peas, green beans and some flowers in front of a bed of azaleas. The second picture was taken of the same area 6 weeks ago (6/8/09). Most of my vegetable gardening has been in raised beds. This area had been [...]

Pickled Green Tomatoes & Peach Preserves

My favorite helper & favorite hen; Jonathan & Lucy!

A new batch of peach preserves.
Pickled Green Tomatoes Recipe from Michael Symon

Trying new recipes is always fun but today’s new kitchen adventure was special, pickling for the first time since I was a kid with 10 year old son. The tomatoes came from my garden, [...]

Victory Garden 2009

I’ve been gardening for a long, long time but have concentrated my efforts of perennials, flowers, etc. and not so much on a vegetable garden. A few tomato plants here and there and herbs but that was the extent of it. This year we are enjoying the fresh produce from our yard, more specifically, planted [...]

Gretchen…aka Bubbles

Bubbles has a new name and shall now be known as Gretchen! She’s a Lakenvelder, a German breed and I really wanted a name to suit her heritage. Crazy, I know.
They are enjoying a spell of free range time in the flower garden and where the compost pile used to be. Finding fat, juicy [...]