What is the secret to a life well lived, a spouse well loved, a home well furnished? I’m not 100% sure, but I think I know the secret to a delicious chili.
Recipes
Jul’s Chicken Potpie
This delicious, nutritious chicken pie is like food you would expect from your country Grandma’s house. As my mama would say “tastes like it was made with love”. Pull out a cutting board and a large chef’s knife and put a dish tub or a big bowl next to it. Rinse and pile up all […]
The Cup of C
There is a tale-telling tickle at the back of my throatSaying a germ has been busybeing a lousy old bloke. Soon I’ll be laid upwishing I had a remoteI’d press the fast-forward’til my voice doesn’t croak. -An oldie-goldie poem by myyoungerself I had plans to explain some fascinating project of mine today, but alas, my […]
Famous Vegetable Beef Soup
This soup has great fame and lasting power in our house. I created it as a 20-something year old new housewife throwing random things into a pot in my old yellow kitchen. I knew not then what I was creating. It was only a decade or so later that my son declared my fame. My […]
Ron’ s Oven-Fried Chicken
This is a main course that is easy and can be simple and filling for supper when served with Crispy Parmesan Potatoes and a side of broccoli, or dressed up with twice baked potatoes and Caesar salad and served to guests. I remember when my husband came in from the wood shop on a gloomy […]
Whole Food Crispy Parmesan Potatoes
Sometimes you just need that go-to oven potato recipe that you can scale up to help feed a crowd. This one is a favorite with kids and husbands alike! I enjoy my bready-crunchy foods as much as the next American girl with Italian roots, but as we are raising our children in a world with […]