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

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

Cheese Frenchee and A Walk Down Memory Lane

Nebraska cheese frenchee

If you were lucky enough to grow up in the Midwest in the 1960’s or 1970’s you just may have fallen in love with the Cheese Frenchee.  I was and I did.  Just the name evokes fond memories of sitting at the King’s Food Host in Scottsbluff, Nebraska or sometimes in Lincoln munching away on … Read more

National Grilled Cheese Day!

It wasn’t until I became a “foodie” and started following a few food bloggers that I was even aware that April is National Grilled Cheese Month.  Really?  A whole month celebration for a grilled cheese sandwich? If you are a grilled cheese connoisseur, which my Chief Culinary Consultant is, then you are no doubt thrilled … Read more

Crock Pot Tomato Basil Soup

John 3:16 For God So Loved the World “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ESV As Christians all over the world are preparing to celebrate Christ’s resurrection on Sunday, March 31,  I am humbled by this opportunity … Read more