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All Things Food & Drink
People who love to eat are always the best people. – Julia Child
All Things Food & Drink. I love to eat, I love to cook, I love to bake and I love to drink. Breakfast. Lunch. Brunch. Dinner. Yeah, that’s me taking another picture of my meal I ordered before I take a bite, I was doing that way before the days of Instagram and Twitter. Home cooked meals from the heart are always the best. And don’t bother asking me for the recipe, chances are I took notes from one and notes from another and added a little something else just because.
“Traditional” dishes I don’t do for Thanksgiving. 1. Green Bean Casserole with the Crunchy Onions 2. Sweet Potato Casserole with the Marshmallows 3. Anything involving Brussel Sprouts What…
Harvested our first flush of pink oyster mushrooms today. Only one week growth – 1/2 pound. Sauteed them with onions and shrimp and tossed over linguine with some…
My friend Kristen passed along this recipe knowing I was with an abundance of sourdough starter. CINNAMON RAISIN SOURDOUGH BREAD My heavens it is delicious…
All those tomatoes from the other day became 22 jars of green tomato pickles, 4 jars of roasted tomato sauce with basil. And one bushel tomatoes hanging out…
“It’s ok little overachievers, time to stop flowering and start turning those pretty green fruits, red.” -Me, talking to my zillion GREEN tomatoes on the vine in the…
#GoBills (ish…) FOOTBALL AND SOUP AND STEW TIME! If nothing else, I have a pork roast with sage rice in the InstantPot and a Gumbolaya in the Crockpot. Oh…
These Reisetomate Tomatoes are ridiculous and beautiful and odd and delightful.
I really need to take a mushroom foraging class. Found all these in our yard/woods while walking the dogs. I bet they are edible, but I’m too afraid…
Mushroom Foraging. Back behind the house we had a giant puffball mushroom growing a bit ago, that HWMMS poofed and spores went everywhere. Today, while walking the doggos…
I just harvested my first round of Thai Basil from the herb garden, so excited I have about a dozen plants that have really taken off and are…
HWMMS: I’m putting you in charge for coming up with our dish to pass for Old Fort Niagara. Me: Cherries! (Thinking bringing bags of sweet cherries, simple, and I…
Sleepytime Herbal Lemonade To make sleepytime herbal lemonade, just add chamomile, lemon balm, lemons and raw blue agave syrup. Simmer on stove a few hours, strain and enjoy…
Cadbury Creme Egg Frappuccino! SAY WHAT! 49 Coffee House & Eatery posted this photo of one of my most favourite Easter Candy of all time in coffee form! How…
HWMMS just unleashed his first batch of homemade mead AND IT IS SO GOOD AND I CAN’T STOP DRINKING SMALLish AND VERY TASTY GLASSES. The end.
The four stages of bacon jam. Bacon, onions, garlic, rosemary, apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper, paprika, cayenne pepper, coffee syrup and cognac. Don’t ask me how much of…
This is what two dozen baked scotch eggs looks like. Half are farm fresh duck eggs. Mmmm. Prepping for #BFFBACHELORPADDYWEEKEND!\ Hard boiled eggs. Bob Evans Sage Sausage (although…
Someo Since HWMMS and I both (sort of) had last days of work scheduled on Wednesday, I offered up the idea that we hit Seabar for a celebration….
A tale of Homemade Potato Bacon Soup. I meant to make mashed potatoes. Ok, not mashed, smashed I’m FAR TOO LAZY to peel potatoes (and usually cut myself)…
I swear if I told you all that I cook like this (as in THROW ALL THE THINGS FROM THE REFRIGERATOR INTO A NEW RECIPE) a majority of…
“They paved paradise and put up a taco truck…ooh, la, la, la, la, la…” Never question the journey, enjoy the ride. Today while accompanying a friend to a…
So this is Christmas* 2017—-And what have we done? NOTHING Christmas* around Weber Wonderland is otherwise known as the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. HWMMS and I…
Tomorrow is HWMMS birthday so I wanted to make him something sassy and spicy to take to work for lunch. He mentioned gumbo the other day, so…while he…
Ribs. Mmmmm. I went to the freezer looking for something? And the two packages of ribs called out to me. EAT ME. If there’s one thing I’ve learned…