I'm taking matters into my own hands. After yesterday's post, no one asked for a lesson in preserving their fruit. I'm deeply hurt. Just kidding. I'm going to teach you anyway. Because I love you. Even if you don't love me. That's just the way it is.I saved this pickle jar. I'm so glad I…
Today, I am making a global appeal. Well, maybe a tropical climate appeal. Really just a citrus fruit climate appeal.Now I'm an east coast girl. Born and raised. I have nothing California in me, I'm way too type-A for the west coast way. And way too fair.BUT.I do envy one thing. One very large, important,…
There once was a woman named Virginia Elizabeth Williams Gray. People called her "Jennie" Gray back in the 1800's.She was my other great-great grandmother. Whereas, Evelyn Day Bruner was my great-grandmother's mother, Jennie was my great-grandfather's mother.We shall call her the tree trunk. Because she is the basis for a very wonderful tradition that links…
Chicken breasts are hard to get right. Chicken tenders though... well that's a different matter altogether. A lot of protein tastes better when it's cooked low and slow. You can still get the brown crusty outside if you play with the fire...These are perfect for you Super Bowl watchers this weekend.You know who you are.…
Because it's Wednesday...Because some days you need a little blues...Because today I do...Because I just made some barbecue sauce and it made me remember...Because there is nothing more badass than a really good blues band playing live during a dove hunt...Because.I thought I'd share a little video clip with ya. These guys were playing last…
I'm not a man.I just play one on the Internets.That being said, I am mildly obsessed with good whiskey. And now good cigars. But maybe just cigars because you don't have to inhale. And I have no idea how to inhale. I have no future as a chain smoker. I've tried and failed a time…
Grandma Pellegrini has these faintly pink glass bowls in her house. She's had them since the 1930's. She and her sister (my great-aunt) lived together in New York City when they were working girls.I like that she still has them.She served me a pudding in them that I would like to tell you about, because…
I had a nice post about pudding that I was about to share with you today. But I need to vent. So I hope you'll indulge me. The pudding will have to wait until Monday.I hate coyotes. They offer nothing and take everything.On the plane ride two days ago I was watching a news story…
Loretta has had quite a colorful life in her seven months as a bird. As you remember, she started out as the one "rare breed" sent to us in the little box with all the other Rhode Island Reds that arrived at the post office. She was called a "Buff Laced Polish Chicken" and she…