Hot Chocolate
Homemade Hot Chocolate
You can use nut milk, soy, goat or cow’s milk. Put about a cup of milk and 1 T. of Penzey’s Dutch chocolate powder (you can always add more) in...
Baby Arugula Salad with Turnips and Tomatoes
Turnips
It’s a mystery.
I don’t know why this salad works.
Putting together the strong flavors of turnips and arugula shouldn’t be delicious,...
Colorful Vegetables
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Asparagus and Mushrooms
Start with crusty good bread, or sprouted Ezekiel. Just make sure it’s good bread with some character. Forget white...
Fresh Vegetables For Breakfast
Zucchini Egg Scramble
This is the easiest concoction in the world to whip up, and even adds a few vegetables to your day, which Jamie Oliver and Dr. Oz would no...
Healthy French Toast
There are ways to make French Toast so that you feel as if you must have eaten a couple dozen “cotton candy” cones from the local County Fair.
My most humble opinion...
Tomatoes With Herbs and Fresh Mozzarella
Tomatoes with Herbs and Fresh Mozzarella
This is easy, tasty, fun to make, and totally gorgeous. It’s a show stopper on any table.
Start with slicing...
You can see I got a little happy with the goat cheese...
Oh, my gosh. This is a good one for your Fall menus.
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
Cut open a butternut squash and remove seeds. Peel the squash. ...
Growing up in Iowa where the tall corn grows surely gives rise to the occasional farm reference sooner or later. The crops, the animals, the Iowa landscape, the sky, the people.
Today, we’ll go...
Back in Iowa my home
state gets me thinking about all
things past and present.
First, mostly
the past,
but from how I see now…
It was a 14 hour drive one way from here to my hometown of Paullina,...
My youngest brother passed away on June 5th, 2010, after a year long bout with cancer. He was only 50. It is said by some that we have full view of our entire life before coming into this physical...
I’m down. I’m out. I can’t move. I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck.
A big darn truck.
Perhaps the world’s largest — like this one in the photo. If you look closely,...
That’s a quote from e.e. cummings, and it’s true about our weather now. Yesterday, we barely made it up the hill and it’s supposed to start to rain….more.
My car will make you...
Sunrise After Snow Storm
Appreciating weather and four real seasons again after living in sunny California for so many years takes some getting use to. I’ve decided, in retrospect, that in California...
I don’t know how it all went so wrong, so fast.
But it did.
It began so innocently…
A long time male friend of mine came to visit with his new girlfriend. I’ve known this gentleman...
The Question of the Day
This one surprised me totally.
Just goes to show you how long I’ve been away from country living…
The BIG Difference between city and country?
Everything is cleaner...
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