I have a mold. I don't know where it came from. It just appeared one day. It's always in the way, it doesn't fit anywhere nicely. It was suggested at one point that we throw it out, but it wouldn't go. So today I finally used it, in honor of our Christmas party this evening.I…
I'm going to take a pause from my deer hunting adventures to share with you what showed up on my doorstep yesterday. I think my non-hunting oriented readers might need a rest. Plus I want to talk about chocolate. This chocolate.It comes from a charming chocolate factory called Charles Chocolates in Emeryville, California.His things are…
We have a place that we go to every year on the highway. It is a place where burly Canadians come and display their Christmas trees. I look forward to finding that perfect tree... it's a bit of a treasure hunt. Everyone has their own style. I look for nice balance and proportions, a little…
Because it's Monday. And because we're all strange birds at heart. This was Loretta hanging out in the kitchen the other day. She lives inside... it's one saga of a story, but she enjoys herself. And cracks me up.
I just had a very Norman Rockwell evening. Warm food and Christmas carol singing and advent wreath making... it began with a church potluck down the road. The same church that every member of my family seems to have gone through...in birth, marriage, or death. It's a place where everybody knows my name... like on…
There are few things more gratifying than cooking a meal entirely from things you have grown. This Thanksgiving we spent as much time outdoors collecting ingredients as we did indoors cooking them.First, we cut these baby brussels sprouts from the garden. They were strange things this year. We waited and waited for them to get…
I am about to step outside into the biggest travel day of the year. I'm a little scared. I've never done this before. I'm usually a hop, skip and a jump away from where I need to be on the holidays. So this is new territory for me.It also means I don't get to cook…
I recently received an email from Grandma Pellegrini. Yes, she does email now, she has a gmail account, and most recently a Facebook account, and is quite good at it. She is also good at ordering interesting things on amazon. Mostly cooking equipment. Just the other day I walked into her kitchen and a new…
Grandma Frances Pellegrini invited me and my brother Gordon over for dinner recently. On the menu was chickpea and tomato soup among other things...She has a very special soup terrine that looks very lovely with soup in it. It dresses up even the simplest of soups. I have a feeling it has been in this…