A really beautiful thing happened to me at the end of September. I won second place in a recipe contest. But, wow - it was a big surprise....

Does anything scream "summer" more than a pasta salad? I don't think so. Unfortunately, sometimes we get pretty tired of t...

Despite the supposed arrival of spring, it's been rainy and cool here in Wisconsin.  And we've been busier than ever. In additio...

   It's been a while since we posted about all the canning we did over Labor Day weekend. In the meantime, we've had a couple of req...

Difficult to believe we're coming to the end of another great year.  As it gets to be this time, we always find ourselves looking back, ...

Autumn in Wisconsin is a glorious and fickle time of the year.  It generally begins quite mildly with breezy but sunny days and cool eveni...

Do you ever notice that your cooking habits seem to run in streaks?  I know that ours do.  For the past couple of weeks, we seem to have g...

A number of people have expressed curiosity about how we plan to use our nettle garlic paste this winter.  Now, it wouldn't be so fun...

Spring in Wisconsin is a fickle beast. Just last week, we were enjoying gorgeous sunny days with temperatures close to sixty degrees. The...

It's that time again... time for us to tell you about our monthly soup night & all the joy it brings to a Sunday evening in the mi...

If the way to someone's heart is really through his/her stomach, then this post is probably as good as a love potion when it comes to...

I'm not superwoman. I can't leap tall buildings in a single bound. I can't wear spandex. And I'm fairly sure I can't ...

It's been a little crazy around here lately.  And there have been moments when I seriously thought life would never return to normal ...

I frequently drool over the food featured by Tina & Mike over at Choosy Beggars .  But, their last pub night, featuring Buffalo Wing Mac...