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Apple blossoms!!! You know what that means!!!

After a massive eval base64 code injection hack on my server, I’ve had to rebuild my blogs from scratch. So sorry for the mess… I’m working on building them back. Sorry for the clutter. I will be working on this over the next few days. Thanks for your patience.

… when you are hungry. *sigh* Enough said.

In my post Turkeys Take Forever To Thaw, I lamented that my turkeys always take their sweet time defrosting even when I place it in the fridge according to the recommended guidelines. Well, as a followup– I placed the frozen turkey in the refrigerator on December 21. One week later, I removed it to cook [...]

I admit, I was never much of an apron gal. I SHOULD be, Lord knows. I’m probably one of THE messiest cooks in the kitchen. I usually have a dishtowel draped over my shoulder, or a large flannel shirt that I wear to, um, wipe my hands if necessary. No matter how careful I am, [...]

Well, fall has only just begun. I haven’t yet kicked into high gear with my cooking. My daughter made a delicious black bean and ham soup yesterday, though. And cookies. And she made apple pie! And we’ve already made beef and barley stew…. but I’m really not going hog wild cooking, just yet. Part of [...]

Oh I am looking forward to autumn. Soon I’ll be able to turn on the stove and bake again! Look what’s growing in my yard! There were multitudes of blossoms in the spring, but oddly enough the apples are rather few and far between. I don’t know what happened along the way. Although I will [...]

I have this rule as soon as summer hits: NO BAKING in the house. With the sun scorching the asphalt parking lots all around my property, we do enough baking around here. :-p I cannot tolerate the heat and therefore the oven is OFF. Once or twice we’ve heated up pre-packaged burritos or frozen pizza, [...]

Well, it certainly FEELS like the “underworld” today, temps expected to be topping 100 degrees this week, with high humidity. :-p This is Upstate New York, we hate hot weather!

You know, there’s nothing like a luscious, huge salad to perk up a girl’s day. This is what I served the family recently. It took a bit or work, all that cleaning and chopping and placement. But OH it was so worth it. I never liked salads as a kid, but maybe that was because [...]