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revised overnight sourdough, and the trouble with no bubbles
If you don’t eat bread or are not a fan of cooking posts, you will want to find something else to read. Several of my readers are interested in this process, which is why I’m writing it; I’m not planning to become a food blog. Normal service will resume soon:) Okay, so I know our winters…
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…connections, the gifts we give to ourselves
I have been thinking about connections. Specifically, connections with people, as well as whatever else sustains us in our lives. These are the true gifts we give to ourselves. What started my thought processes ticking over was a passage from a book I’m still reading called ‘Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life’ by Barbara Kingsolver.…
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the coming and going…
We are blessed with amazing natural beauty here. It is almost criminal to take it for granted. But we do. Sometimes. Take the clear blue skies we often have… I long for some cloud now and then, not to mention a little rain. Clear blue skies have an implied imperative that one must get out and make…
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a soup story
Lately I have been thinking about soup. Incessantly. Due to an inability to digest onion and a few other frequent additions to soups I’m only able to eat my own homemade soup, or, oddly, a few flavours of tinned soups that are made with no onion. A few years ago, when I must have been short of time…
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breakfast and more…
I’m sitting in Adelaide, Australia having the best coffee I’ve had since last time I was here. After the coffee purgatory of the United States, I’m deeply appreciative. It’s not just me either. We walked into the Qantas Club at the Sydney airport after our last trip and I overheard the couple next to us:…
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playing with my food
The heat of summer has left me with little appetite for heavy food. I decided to return to a mostly vegetable diet for a few weeks and I’ve enjoyed it. I’m channeling my heritage with these ‘recipes’ that are not terribly precise, so please forgive me! I nearly always have carrots in the fridge, and in…
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the strain of it all…
Our weather has fluctuated wildly from beastly hot to unseasonably cool and humid, and today, very hot and humid. It leaves me feeling as if I wish we didn’t need to eat so I wouldn’t have to shop and cook! There’s been a lot of straining going on in my kitchen lately…of the consumable kind. I…
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a pumpkin epiphany–In My Kitchen, November
You know I love my slow cooker (crock pot). Recently I found a new trick that it can do and it has changed my vegetable life. It is so simple I could hardly believe it, but then simple is usually best. Cook your pumpkin or butternut squash in the slow cooker. Whole. With nothing else. Not…
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In My Kitchen August 2015
The first home I remember was in Bethel, Ohio on Main Street, USA. (sounds like the setting for a play, doesn’t it?) The house had a feature fossil rock wall that was part of my bedroom and a huge, huge pecan tree in the back yard. When my parents bought the house it was a real wreck, a ‘fixer…
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