I recently re-discovered the joys of really fresh eggs. I mean fresh as in laid a day and a half ago. One can only assume the chickens that produce these gems are happy birds. They are semi-free range (out, about and unfenced during the day, sheltered at night). They eat all sorts of things chickens [...]
Tastes in foods go in cycles. If you look back by decades it might surprise you to realize how appetites for different foods evolve over time. So does their preparation. In the 1950s, the average American family ate three meals per day, on a more-or-less set schedule. Breakfast for many of us consisted of meat [...]
A woman who loves to cook collects a lot of recipes over decades of time. She takes family recipes with her when she leaves her childhood home (not counting going away to college) to make a home with her husband or “significant other” as may be the case. Single or married, she makes friends with [...]
Seriously. What do you serve people this time of year? We’re well into spring weather in Ohio. This means a climatic see-saw that goes up and down between freezing temperatures and the tropics. At 30 degrees we’re dressing in wool and layering; then the thermometer hits 80, and it’s shorts and flip-flops, for those of [...]
Rhubarb finds its way into so many baked goods. It just adds a nice, tart taste to everything. Mom baked with her homegrown rhubarb often, and she never had trouble growing rhubarb. If you want to start your own rhubarb patch, plant the rhubarb one year and then use it the second year. I have [...]
Spring quick — What’s the second word that comes to mind? Spring forward — Yes. We have another hour of daylight after work. There’s time to walk dogs while it’s still light. Daylight Savings Time is one of the best fake-outs of all. We all know we haven’t really gained an hour overnight. But I’ll [...]
My birthday is next month — the day after taxes are due. So far, I’ve never had a birthday that’s caused me concern or thrown me into a depression. I buy into the attitude that one’s birthday is cause for celebration, if for no other reason than the fact that it beats the alternative. If [...]
Sometimes the same old routine gets to be too much. You feel like you’re plodding along in the same footsteps you trod last week and last month and maybe last year. A rut is forming as you walk the same path. The path is familiar and the rut is not altogether unpleasant. But the [...]