Most of the time, our first venture into cooking involves following a recipe.  Sometimes it’s our mother’s recipe, sometimes it’s from a cookbook, or other times we’re simply reading the back of a box.  I remember the first recipe that called me into the kitchen.  It was a recipe for minestrone soup.  It called for almost [Click to Continue Reading...]

Happy New Year, y’all! First, I must apologize for my long absence.  While I can blame my lack of updates partly on my trip home to Texas, the truth is I returned from Texas over a week ago.  The real reason I haven’t shared a recipe lately is because I had an idea to make [Click to Continue Reading...]

Harvest is in full swing here ’round these parts.  The last of the tomatoes are being hauled from the fields to the cannery across town.  The combines are parked at the edges of the corn fields, just waiting to tear through the rows.  Butterflies are dancing around in the alfalfa fields that will soon receive [Click to Continue Reading...]