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.
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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 […]
How I Send Out Over 100 Christmas Cards Every Year
Many people have mixed feelings about Christmas cards. Some folks view them as a waste of money, another sign of our rampant consumerist society, or just outdated and old fashioned. I have even heard some people take a cockamamie spin on it where they felt guilted into sending out cards themselves just because someone sent […]
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 […]