Cream of Fresh Tomato Soup II

It’s soup season!  My first new soup of the fall came from a recipe by Ina Garten of the Food Network.  This summer when our Roma tomatoes were coming in by the dozens I didn’t have time to do anything with them.  My sous-chef dish-washing mom was fighting breast cancer, we had a fair amount … Read more

Woo-Hoo From The WHOot!

Seventy-one days after my last blog post on July 22 I signed on to the administrative part of my blog.  I had 46 comments sent in during that time. I began working through the ones that were spam and needed deleted and the ones that were genuine and deserved a reply. That is when I … Read more

Beef Burrito Casserole

We don’t eat a lot of Mexican food.  I know, crazy, huh?  But by the time I start adding up flour tortilla carbs and calories, throw in some red meat and smother in cheese, well you probably get the idea!  But when The Recipe Girl  posted a “healthy version” of a burrito casserole I couldn’t … Read more

Cheese Frenchee Revisited

Nebraska cheese frenchee

Remember when I posted this recipe for a Cheese Frenchee?  My mouth is watering at this very moment as I start thinking about these and looking at the pictures.  I guess they’re going to be on our menu this week! 🙂 One of the really fun parts about writing a blog post is when I … Read more

Spring Is In The Details

This is the cave spring that feeds the little creek that runs in front of our home.  The cave is located on our neighbor’s property.  Lucky for us she doesn’t mind us walking down her lane and across her front yard so that we can view this lovely spring.  During the winter everything surrounding the … Read more

Lobster Bisque

[ Trials and Temptations ] Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.   James 1:2-3 NIV I have put off posting this Lobster Bisque recipe because I can’t find the fabulous pictures of the finished bisque.  I can say they … Read more