What Thanksgiving REALLY Is, A personal message
We’ve been planning and shopping and chopping and stressing and Thanksgiving is finally here. Thanksgiving for me has always brought memories of comfort and warmth. The holiday was always spent up north with my grandparents. We’d pile into the car when school got...Snowed IN
There is not much chance of that on the immediate horizon but all of our local meteorologists are pretty excited about our first snow, which is predicted for this weekend. The first snow of the season is always interesting because it seems like most people have...Chicken in Hunter Sauce
This dish is a French classic. “Chicken Chasseur” which literally means “Hunter’s Chicken” combines chicken with mushrooms in a tomato-white wine sauce and comes from a time when wild game birds were plentiful and combined with wild mushrooms from the...Beef Stroganoff
Beef Stroganoff 1 ½ lbs beef tenderloin (use stew meat or cubed sirloin if you prefer) Olive oil & butter3 tbs each Onion Mushrooms Garlic Beef stock or consumme’ 3 tbs flour Tomato paste Heavy cream Egg noodles Thyme This was originally a Russian dish using...
A Wonderful Discovery
We found an apartment to live in while we build our little place up north. I can’t wait to start cooking. There’s just one problem. The tiny one butt galley kitchen in our rental is full of cardboard boxes and I don’t have a clue where anything is. I guess there are...This looks like a good spot
I found a spot!
Just Do It – A First Draft
I’m getting started, and this conversation is about to get interesting…