I don’t know if it is just me, or if my tastes have changed, but the Wheat Thins that I have bought in the last year or so have tasted strange to me. I don’t know how to explain it, and like I said it could just be me, but I was really excited to… Read More
The holidays are over, and while you probably have finished off the last of the leftovers, you may not have had time to clean out the fridge. No doubt there are still a few items shoved in the back of the refrigerator that—while still good– they are quickly approaching their expiration date. You know, like… Read More
This crazy chicken combo is not one I would have ever dreamed up. The inspiration for it is Anthony’s Chicken. It is an eclectic ingredient list that leaves one frightened initially. Looking at something different we tried this meal several years ago. It is certainly different and unique. The crazy chicken combo blends together to… Read More
My maternal grandmother, Elzoda, cooked on a big black cast iron wood-burning kitchen stove all of her life on a farm in rural Maine. The stove was called Modern Clarion, with the name right on the oven door. It was purchased around 1915 when they were first married. The stove in 1941. The stove in… Read More
For hundreds of years, dried fruits have been popular for their convenience of storage and concentrated flavor and sweetness. We seem to have gone full circle from fruits dried on rocks in the sun, to commercially dried fruits packaged in convenient little boxes and pouches, and back again to the interest in making our own… Read More
Very few things compare to the smell of hot cookies fresh out of the oven. When I opened the oven door to check on this batch of cookies, I was overwhelmed by a swarm of grody men who–-not moments before–-had been happily playing grease monkey in the backyard. Apparently the heavenly scent of the cookies… Read More
any MSG free recipes and substitutes for bouillon used to make my own, as the homemade recipes all contain flavored granules or bouillon which contain MSG
My MIL made the only thing I actually liked using the old fashioned citron fruit mix – a very soft cookie. Not a bar, just a regular cookie. Not particularly spicy, and more sponge cake like than a normal cookie. For some reason, the citron tasted good in this particular cookie. Other than in this... Read More
When I was a kid, my aunt used to can crab apples that I loved. Never thought to ask her for the recipe when she was alive, but a friend has a crab apple tree so loaded with crab apples, that some of the branches are touching the ground. When she told me that I... Read More
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