Want to make sourdough bread but don’t have any sourdough starter? No worries, making your own in a two-quart glass or plastic container is easy. Healthy Sourdough Starter Is Easy To Make At Home Sourdough starter can be made from flour and milk or mashed potatoes left to sit out […]
A Wonderful Vintage Recipe From The Old Junior League Cookbook Asparagus season is as fleeting as a junior high romance. So, it’s essential to eat as much fresh asparagus as you can when it is in the season because when it’s over, it’s over! Asparagus will soon be at its […]
Houdini Chicken is a revelation I wish I’d known about 30 years ago. I was a time-starved working mom with hungry kids to feed. Better late than never, though, right? My brother passed along this straightforward recipe to me recently. He and his wife are both retired empty nesters. They […]
A Fast And Easy Way To Chocolate Mint Nirvana I’ve spent years playing around with brownie mix hacks. There is no shame in using cake mixes or brownie mixes, especially when there are so many ways you can use them as a starting-off basis for some pretty amazing desserts! Cake […]
Homemade Laundry Soap Recipe I want to teach you how to make homemade laundry soap! It always smells delightfully fresh and clean! I leave the lid off the container just to inhale the wonderful fragrance whenever I walk through the laundry room. Every time I make a batch, I feel […]
The Coziest Colcannon Recipe Colcannon is a dish that originated in Ireland, and it is classic comfort food that’s cheap to make. Irish Chef Richard Corrigan maintains, “there’s no such thing as a recipe for Colcannon, really. It’s something that is put together with love, not measurements.” Generally speaking, that’s […]
This cottage cheese dish was served on the salad bar at a local steakhouse for over sixty years. The establishment opened in 1952, long before the Interstate system connected our country. Highway 30 connected east and west in a ribbon that strung through “Beef country.” Steakhouses dotted the landscape in […]
Fresh peach pie is another one of summer’s incredible delights. Today, there are so many different peach hybrids that “peach season” has expanded to last from May to September! Peaches are showing up in grocery stores now, and soon there will be roadside stands laden with aromatic peaches grown closer […]
Broccoli slaw? In a bag? Everything is already shredded for me? It’s right in the produce section? I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I had never, ever noticed it. What a mistake! I am so happy I finally found it!! Last week, I took a little road trip to spend […]
Lemon cake is a perfect dessert for summer (and fall, and winter, and spring.) I have baked more lemon cakes than every other kind of cake combined because everyone loves it. This simple lemon cake is a sunny, yummy classic. I still use a recipe from the 1960s that circulated […]