painting: eggs (08/02/19)

Farm Fresh Eggs. I like that they are all different colors. 8″x8″ oil on stretched canvas. Available in my Etsy shop.

summer food: lo mein

I know, lo mein is a year round food and not just a summer food, isn’t it? We go to the restaurant for a girl’s-lunch treat now and then, and can share a plate of lo mein for $6. Quite the bargain. Now that the price of beef is going up up up, and as

food: caramel popcorn

When I was young, we’d go to an outdoor shopping mall after church and there was a candy shop that made fresh caramel corn and the buttery sugar smell would waft over the whole shopping mall. Sometimes we would buy a box. This recipe makes that kind of caramel corn. I think it’s slightly different

food: apple fritters

I was looking for a donut replacement because paying 50-cents (or more) for a donut is starting to seem a little ridiculous. And apple fritters or soooo easy. Yes, they look a little homely. But they taste GREAT. Plus there’s actual fresh apple in there. What’s not to love? Or you can leave the apples

canning: salsa and sweet-and-sour sauce

This year there are only two Roma plants and one cherry tomato, but they are producing like mad! So far I have been able to can two batches of salsa (using 15-cups of tomatoes), and one batch of sweet-and-sour sauce (using 8-cups of tomatoes). Someone made a comment online that my sweet-and-sour sauce recipe is

food: Beignets

Ever since the Disney movie, The Princess and the Frog, I get requests to make beignets now and then. They are super easy, so why not? If you make the recipe at night, put the dough in the refrigerator to rise and then fry up quick and easy in the morning! I used this recipe,

food: tandoori chicken and dahl

Hoo baby! Finally a food success! I left out the red food coloring that gives tandoori chicken its instant recognizability, and I don’t think the taste suffered any for it. Perfect chicken! I used this recipe, and after marinating threw de-boned chicken thighs on the barbecue for 20 minutes. I first soaked the chicken overnight

food: bouillabaisse

I have determined we need to be more food-adventurous, plus, we need to eat more fish. With all the healthy benefits to fish, why do we not eat more of it? I don’t know about your family, but we don’t really like the fishy taste of fish. I’m sure it’s all in how you were

the humble egg

We don’t like eggs around this house, not scrambled, not omlettes, not over-easy. Oh, we’ll take them over-easy, but only because there are lingering memories of good times with egg breakfasts at dinky diners. It’s just not the same homemade, though. We do like deviled eggs, however. Maybe it’s because the texture is different, sort

making something good better: braised mushrooms

When you go grocery shopping first thing in the morning it is **so** much easier to plan a nice evening meal than when you get to 2p.m. and think, “Now what?” I bought some fresh button mushrooms just for a change, we don’t eat them often, and when I got home I went to the