Wow Chow Cooking

When the kids were younger (and our incomes smaller), I was a fanatic about buying food in bulk and pre-making meals for the week. I’d get one of those huge 10-pound ground beef rolls, cook it all up at once, and bag it in freezer bags. I also remember going on fruit and vegetable binges, [...]

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 [...]

The smell of the oven is wafting upstairs into my study. Mmmmmmmm. My daughter is cooking. It’s a zucchini, cheesy, something or other casserole bake-y thing. It smells so good. I think our oven has missed us. It poured rain today and it’s been rather chilly this week. I have LOVED every second of it. [...]

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, [...]

I usually don’t pay attention to food recalls. I know I should, especially in the summer when our purchases of processed meat rise (hotdogs, pre-made hamburgers, etc). But an Upstate news outlet had a very long story about the latest recall — this time it’s for Cahill ground turkey — and it got me thinking. [...]

When we visited New York City this past week, I decided to treat my daughters at the historic Fraunces Tavern for lunch. As history buffs, the Fraunces Tavern on 54 Pearl Street is near and dear to our hearts. This was the place that the New York Sons of Liberty met, planning their agenda against [...]

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 [...]

This is my dining room lately. It’s my favorite place right now. I’ve always wanted a screened-in gazebo. I need screening because bugs feast on me like no tomorrow, and I dislike smelling like DEET all the time. Seriously, as soon as I step outside, the mosquitoes and black flies descend upon me within minutes, [...]