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Our farmer neighbor paid us for grazing privileges last week. For allowing him to put a couple of young steers in our pasture, so we don’t have to mow it, he pays us. Not a bad deal! He pays us in chicken. (It’s a much more stable currency than the dollar.) The chicken takes some … Continue reading…
Go directly to recipe I don’t know how many of you watched ‘Friends’. Those who did will remember the episode. For those who didn’t a brief description: Joey, that pillar of male intellect, was reading a book. A rarity for Joey. It was ‘The Shining’ by Stephen King. Whenever he got to the scary parts, … Continue reading…
Mon mari tends to take the fun out of being a traveling food blogger. He’s quite patient at home, waiting while I take a few hundred photos of a crumb of bread: arranging and rearranging; posing and reposing; adjusting the lights and the props. And he did ask me, very nicely, to please not embarrass … Continue reading…
Go directly to recipe What is it about the hidden things that make them so appealing? Something that's forbidden must be better than something that isn't. And something that is both hidden and forbidden, well, that is simply an invitation! My mother, so practical about many things, couldn't grasp this. Every Christmas she baked 6 … Continue reading…
Go directly to recipe First: Those of you who keep fruit bowls on the counter take note: today I learned that you cannot put kiwifruit and clementines in the same bowl. The kiwifruit cause the clementines to turn to a moldy, mushy mess. I don’t know why. The kiwifruit were fine and only the fruit … Continue reading…
Sedi, aka Sweet Pea, my little, brown, German, pointy-nosed bitch, has another name added to the ever growing list: Sedi, the Bunny Slayer. Yesterday, as I was taking the girl-dogs for their morning constitutional, we had AN EVENT! The girls were running ahead as usual. As I came around the bushes towards the lower part … Continue reading…
I just heard our pointy-nose, German dog struggle up the stairs. Time to come up and nap in the warm office. She has arthritis in her back hips and, on these damp days, the stairs are a challenge. Six years ago her vet in Andorra told us she shouldn’t be allowed to go up stairs … Continue reading…