At 9:30 the night before last, I counted heads before closing the chicken coop door for the night. I came up with eleven… one short, but it was quite dark inside the coop so I just figured two chickens were huddled to appear as one. The group had always hung close together so it would…

My friend Deb, from across town, called me this morning while she puttered in her garden. She was pulling some rhubarb stalks, so I told her I had a tasty recipe for sauce that has a few flavors going on that you don't find in typical recipes for rhubarb sauce… so yummy. The recipe calls…

I am drawn to simplistic labeling on packages. Working as a graphic designer in NYC, my daughter, Lisa, creates logos, ads, and store signage to catch the eye of consumers like me and entice them into buying a product. Although she didn’t design these flour and corn meal packages, she has most recently been freelancing…

Every Monday at 12:25 p.m. on the 104.3 KLKS ("KLakes") Radio Station located at Breezy Point north of Brainerd, I listen to a 5-minute segment called "Lunch with John". John, who is an announcer at the radio station, proceeds to describe what his wife has packed for him in his Roy Rogers and Dale Evans lunchbox for…

Happy 4th of July! This is what I made for lunch today… hamburgers, coleslaw, and a vanilla milkshake… so 4th of July-ish! Holidays are SO fun. Beef Burgers Serves 6. 1 lb. ground chuck (ex. lean ground beef or ground bison) ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp pepper ½ tsp dried thyme ½ tsp dried oregano 1/3 c grated…

I picked this season’s first substantial number of strawberries today. I walked out to my patch without a bowl thinking that I would be able to carry them in my hand but, when the berries began to spill onto the ground, I found a pie tin in my potting shed to hold them. Without a…

I went to buy some apples to make "Good Mornin' Apple Crisp" for my bed and breakfast guests this morning. For apples to eat raw, I like the Gala variety. Instead of the Gala Apples, though, I selected a bag of the "Pink Lady" variety. I had never tried Pink Ladies before. One crunch into an apple and I now have a new favorite. Their firm…

Yesterday, I decided to bake a "Daffodil Cake" to celebrate the arrival of sunny skies and a break in the rain. It ended up being a celebratory cake symbolizing new springtime birth. We received news that our fourth grandchild was born last night at 10:34 p.m. Eastern time… a boy! Not knowing that my daughter had gone into labor,…

It was our monthly "Member Day" at our local food co-op yesterday, so I received a 10% discount off my total purchases instead of our normal 5%. By the time I arrived back home and had put all of my groceries away, Dick and I were getting hungry… too famished for any long involved prep or…