Which salad reminds you the most of warm summer days and family get togethers and gathering around a table to load your plate? Potato Salad? Macaroni? Chicken? Can you taste summer and picture a lazy Sunday afternoon in front of you just thinking about it? I can. If ever there…
When Italy comes to mind, Italian food is not far behind. And then next thoughts tend towards pasta. Or gelato. Or cheese. Or pizza. Or gelato. (Yes, gelato is deserving of a double mention, since I tend to eat it twice daily when I am there) The thing missing from…
I know, April Fools was yesterday… I in no way wanted to take away from the time honored tradition of practical joking, spoof websites and twitter rumors flying around the internet. Instead I thought I would take April 2nd as the day to reintroduce everyone to a time honored English…
I did a lot of camping with the scouts when I was a kid, and without fail cobbler made an appearance. If it didn’t, I’m sure there probably would have been a small riot. So, you really can’t go camping, and not have Dutch Oven cobbler. In continuing my Dutch…
I had a day to myself recently and decided to spend it doing nothing but cooking – not for the blog, not because I needed to figure out dinner, but for no other reason than I wanted to spend a morning luxuriating in the kitchen. Almost my entire life revolves…
One of my favorite camp meals was always Dutch Oven BBQ Chicken. It is seriously easy, and everyone loves it. You can go the ridiculously easy route and just pick up a bottle of your favorite barbecue sauce on your way to your camp site, but that’s not nearly as…
I have talked before about not being much of a baker. I think it stems from the fact that I can’t follow a recipe verbatim to save my life. I am always tinkering. It works well for me most of the time, but when it comes to the precision needed…
Do you dream of dinner party domestic goddess fabulouspicity (a made up word, I know)… That moment when you pull the perfectly lovely / lovingly perfect dessert out and everyone collectively sighs? And then they taste and sigh again. I have delusions of such grandeur as well. A baker? I…
One of our family traditions that I didn’t get into until recently really, is that my parents used to make chili for dinner every year on Halloween. I think there was a texture thing I couldn’t get past as a kid.But before we would go out trick or treating, we…
We had some torrential rain this past week at my home base in the Salty City. It was my cue that it is time to kiss summer goodbye. Though I tend to do so kicking and screaming… I love harvest veggies and sweaters and soup that come along with the…