Make Ahead Bean Salad After a crazy few weeks, I'm settling in to routine. I think  know I do better when I have a routine to follow. Pa...

Chloe, your comment on my last blog post meant more to me than you'll ever know.  We all (I think) wonder if people notice us. It's ...

Microwave Bread & Butter Pickles Goodness, it's still at our house this morning. And so quiet, too. Our granddaughters headed back h...

Summer supper—pork tenderloin, orzo spinach salad, grilled corn, sautéed apples. What a week! We had Little Lady and her mama and daddy in r...

Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes This year's odd Thanksgiving has come and gone. We were home alone but thankful for FaceTime and Zoom so that...

Slow Roasted Tomatoes I've been cooking forever. It has been over a half century. Isn't that crazy? But with all those years in the ...

Oven "Fries" Way back when I started using this recipe, oven roasted vegetables were not the first vegetable cooking meth...

Marinated Carrots (aka Copper Pennies) In our current world, cooking often means making things with what you have on hand or what s...

We have a new—well, it opened a year ago—local meat market in our tiny town. You can see the beautiful pinwheel steaks stuffed with ...