Do you have a favorite banana bread recipe? I don’t. At least I didn’t until recently. I’ve made a lot of banana bread through the years. Mostly crumbly, sometimes overly dense, occasionally dry, and always leaving me wishing I just hadn’t bothered. Then my friend Opal called asking me if I have a recipe for … Read more
Last February I made Chili Soup with the intention of sharing my recipe with you. It’s not that I don’t think you have a Chili recipe, I’m mean, who doesn’t? But, when I made this one it was so good I thought we should all have it in our winter soup arsenal. And then a … Read more
This is a photo of my darling chief culinary consultant and I while visiting Petropavlovsk, Russia in September. Petropavlousk is the only sizable city on Kamchatka Peninsula and home to over half the peninsula’s population. The 776 mile long KAMCHATKA PENINSULA, westward from Alaska between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea, is often … Read more
Churches have long been known for a great place for recipe swapping. Now, don’t get your dander up, I’m not saying recipe swapping is the best function of a church 🙂 but it is a lovely by-product! A couple of weeks ago at our church small group meeting, my friend Maribeth served an Apple Crisp … Read more
My good friend Sue recently moved from Nebraska to Washington State. I was wondering how her move was going when I got this email and picture: “You’ve got to make this pumpkin bread. I always use Libbey’s pumpkin. You gunna love it cuz it tastes great and makes such nice gifts too.” She had me … Read more
On a recent trip to Tuscaloosa, Alabama this site caught my husband’s attention as we passed over the dam on Tuscaloosa Lake. He said, “did you see that?” As usual, I bobbed my head up from whatever I was reading and missed the view. As is typical with my very considerate husband, later that day … Read more