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

Thai Peanut Chicken Salad

This past summer the Brown Eyed Baker posted a recipe similar to this one, sans the chicken.  I like Thai peanut flavoring and was on a salad kick trying to get in shape for eating myself silly on an Alaskan cruise with The Chief and my sous-chef dish-washing mom! This salad made for a wonderfully … Read more

Strawberry Pretzel Salad

I am doing it again. Posting a recipe to share because I typically lose my copy of the recipe and can’t find it at the moment I need it. Now I will have it on my blog — forever. Well, at least for as long as I need it! I adore this salad and/or dessert. … Read more

Cucumber and Onion Salad

As I sit with my computer on my lap, poised ready to write about cucumber and onion salad, I am brain-dead.  Truth is, I am posting this recipe for myself.  Yep, it is true. Selfishly, I am thinking of all the time I spend looking for the recipe note card, sorting through recipe files on … Read more

Kale – Queen of the Greens!

If you haven’t eaten kale lately, it is time to jump on the bandwagon and join the health craze for kale!  Even though my southern-born and raised husband grew up eating collard greens and turnip greens, kale wasn’t cooked up in his granny’s kitchen.  But last year as he was fighting an iron deficiency we … Read more