It’s foodie Monday and I’m trying two new recipes today. One is a recipe for Coconut Macaroons. I’ve been craving these sweet, decadent treats for a while now. And, the other recipe is for a spicy crockpot chicken. I haven’t gotten to either, yet. So far today, I’ve been cleaning out more of my files…
My husband and spent last week in Buffalo and Brockport New York – in roughly the areas in which we grew up. If you don’t know, the Buffalo area and Western New York, in general, have a great diversity of food. We always look forward to eating when we go back to visit family! Here…
Last week, we had some really good meals. We ate grilled salmon with mustard and brown sugar glaze, beef tacos (not had in a great while), and a few other yummy dishes such as strip steaks. But, the topper was the pork carnitas. I had a weird hankering for these that I think was brought…
Recently, my husband found a recipe for homemade marinara sauce and meatballs. It is delicious and seems easy. He’s made it three times in the last month and was so delicious we had it for our Christmas Eve dinner. We might never have store-bought sauce again! The meatballs, made separately, are delicious as well and…
When I blog about food, typically it has been on Mondays. But, Monday gave way to a book review and Tuesday – well, Tuesday, my Mom was on my mind so I wrote about her. But, my plan was to write a food post on Buffalo Chicken Wings on Monday. This Sunday I experimented with…
Last week I made some homemade crackers. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a while but just got around to doing. These were seed crackers, consisting of several types of seeds – pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds, and sunflower seeds. I threw in extra chia seeds due to lacking one of the…
Peaches are in season! They are one of my favorite fruits! Since I wanted to preserve some of that sweet flavor of late summer for the cold days of winter, I decided to make freezer jam. And, not just the standard strawberry freezer jam that our mother’s used to make! I found a recipe for…
Last week, my husband found a recipe in a cook book we’ve had for almost ten years. We’ve been trying to cook new dishes regularly. This dish was called Mustard Milanese with an Arugula Fennel Salad from Deb Perelman’s The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook (2012). It was so tasty! We’ll definitely be making it again. Beyond…
Yesterday, I took an intro to foraging class. It was held by an organization called the Driftless Folk School and the session took place on the grounds of the Kickapoo Valley Reserve near La Farge, Wisconsin. This area is a jaw-droppingly (my own term) beautiful part of Wisconsin. I was excited to go, as much…
My husband and I moved to Maryland early in our marriage. He had obtained a research job at a Delaware hospital and I just finished my child health – pediatric nurse practitioner degree and was working at the esteemed Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. It was 1990. We enjoyed living outside one of the major…