DIY Homemade Dill Pickles

My Chief gardener started bringing lettuce from the garden a couple of weeks ago.  This past week he brought in the first basket full of yellow squash and cucumbers.  Today, I received my second BIG basket of cucumbers.  It is time to start pickling! Last summer our cucumbers caught a nasty bug and died on … Read more

Friday’s Soul Food

I absolutely love this quote by Oswald Chambers.  He is referring to John 4:11 which says, “The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ”  The woman at the well came to draw water at the hottest part … Read more

Stay Cool With Melt-In-Your-Mouth Pot Roast

You may not think “pot roast” is a very exciting or blog-worthy recipe.  But when my sous-chef dish-washing mom came home from her visit in Kansas City earlier this month I wanted to greet her with some down home comfort food.  I was picking her up at the Nashville airport at 3:00 p.m. and would … Read more

Healthified Frosted Banana Bars

Do you ever have bananas that look like these? I over-shot bananas on my shopping list and ended up with 3 1/2 rather ripe ones I couldn’t get the Chief nor my Sous-Chef Dish-Washing mom interested in eating! 🙂 I ran through the gambit of banana nut bread, or crunchy pecan banana muffins,  and then … Read more