Wow Chow Cooking

I was watching some very old English costume drama recently. Have you ever noticed how they always had orchestras playing in the background, always having “balls” and “cotillions” or whatever. I suppose in a culture where social structure is everything, society functions are the crowning and decisive events, eh? India may have its caste system…. [...]

Every week I am going to try posting a tentative menu plan. Right now, everything is usually scrawled all over half dozen sticky notes, and we all know how organized those can be. :-p So maybe by posting things here, I won’t forget what on earth I’m making for dinner 5 days ahead! If you [...]

What is it about those teeny tiny flakes that inspire a flurry of cooking? We’re getting several inches of snow today, perhaps more snow in this one day that we have had all winter long so far! It’s been a very brown and gray winter, that’s for sure. And as I watch the little flakes [...]

Like many Americans, we live in an old home. Ours is 160 years old. The house is a “middle income” house and is less than 1600 square feet. There are six of us here, not including the cat, two dogs and bird. It’s *kinda* cramped, actually. So my dining room does double-duty. We eat our [...]

Am I a good mom or what???? LOL I got my boys cooking!!!! Look, here’s the proof! They made a pie for the holidays. Woohoo! The boys expressed some apprehension when I asked to make a pie (we gals were very busy with other jobs at the time), but I threatened them with no allowance [...]

OH SO full of calories but it was a delicious treat for Christmas dessert! (I passed over the pie — too filling — to enjoy a cup of this). I found it while looking for red wine for Christmas dinner. It was affordable so I thought I would try it. I used to LOVE dairy [...]

Ever since I was a little girl and I dug an old, discarded Sunbeam Bread tin sign from a junk pile, I have loved retro signs. Since I renovated my kitchen last year, I have been slowly collecting and adding them to my kitchen walls. I wish they weren’t so durn expensive, and I could [...]

Every year, I make the same basic, traditional (AKA, boooooring) Thanksgiving dinner: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, pie. Last year I think I did something REALLY exciting and made deviled eggs, woohooo. I love the holiday, but when it comes to the feast, I am horribly dull and uncreative. I think may do something [...]

*snicker* I’m on a spree, a tin-sign-hanging spree. I’ve decided to fill my kitchen walls with tin signs, usually referring to cooking, cleaning or wifely duties in general. This one just came in the mail yesterday. I love it!!! HAHA!!! I also got this one. We don’t drink Coca-Cola (or any soda, actually, except ginger [...]

I could eat fish every day. Just love it. When we went to Hudson, NY, recently, we stopped at a marina restaurant, Frank Guido’s Port of Call. It looked a little too casual for us, actually– as if some sailors might come swooning out of the low-roofed building. OK, I wasn’t expecting to walk into [...]