Category Archives: Recipes

I am always hungrier for lunch on Sunday than I am any other day of the week. By the time we are driving home from morning worship, my mouth is watering and I am thinking about how quickly I can get Sunday “dinner” on the table. Years of experience have taught me that nothing is […]

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Yesterday’s dinner was a bit of cultural serendipity. I had been working on a long overdue letter to some dear elderly German friends. I would write a bit, let several days go by, write a bit more, let several more days go by, and so on. Yesterday I finally sat myself down for an hour […]

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Fed a horde last night, although it was a smaller horde than usual — a hordelet, I suppose. The homeschool co-op middle/high school history students stayed after co-op for our second Dinner and a Movie Wednesday. This time it was To Kill a Mockingbird followed by spaghetti and meatballs. A friend had helped me transform […]

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I really enjoyed school when I was growing up, except for math and some parts of gym. One of my favorite classes was eighth grade home ec. My teacher was young and pretty and shared her mom’s recipes with a class of mostly clueless girls. I am ashamed to say that one of the reasons […]

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Weekday lunches at our house are an every-man-for-himself affair. I try to have a few choices available — often there is some kind of deli meat and there is always cheese, tuna, and peanut butter available. Our Male Adolescents usually have a sandwich, and I often do too, but about as often I have some […]

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Our daughter, our firstborn, is home from college for the winter break. She heads back to school at the end of the week — back to the study grind, her on-campus job, and cafeteria food — so when she said she had a meal request I was ready to comply. “I want an Italian creamy […]

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Feeling blue? Got a cold? Try my sure-fire mood-enhancer: caramelize some onions. No, really, it works. Here’s why:–It is cheap, so one does not feel guilty about doing something self-centered.–It takes just the right amount of concentration to keep one’s mind off self-destructive, whirligig thinking but not so much that one can’t mind-putter while one […]

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No picture. Sorry, but I just need to get this memory-jogger to you immediately. Hot, much? Don’t feel like doing any cooking to speak of? (Or is it, of which to speak? Nah.) Around our place, we have been in the throes of remodeling. The house is basically a construction zone. I am busier than […]

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It’s strawberry time, one of the best times of the year. The season is a little late due to a cool spring, but that only means they are all the more welcome. Probably our favorite way to celebrate the scarlet gems is with a dessert I learned 14 years ago in the kitchen of an […]

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Landscape designers speak often about the need for a garden to have “good bones.” The bones of a gardening space are what the eye sees when all of the color, bloom, and even foliage are stripped away – basically what you see in the winter. It is the manmade features like walls and walks and […]

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