Yes, yes, I’m coming back! This summer has been nuts. I’ve had a heck of a time trying to get back here. And now it’s literally the end of summer. Actually, we get an extra month of warm weather here. But, technically, summer is over. …
As many of you know, there are aspects of this house that we live in that would make one think you had actually stepped into a slide out in an RV whilst in our living room. A slide out in an RV from the eighties,…
Hubs has a friend at work that occasionally sends home mystery whiskey in teeny tiny unmarked bottles. They come home, everyone tastes, and then emails thoughts and tasting notes back. Except me. I don’t have a taste for hard alcohol. But Elizabeth likes whiskey! And…
Wow, it’s been a minute since I’ve been on here! The farm is revving up and we ripped out the hospital ceiling in the living room. I posted the Single Mom Chronicles a whole four days late. And I didn’t get around to updating some…
Upon perusing the intrawebs, I see that there’s not a lot of recipes for crispy pork belly. After trying my hand at various methods of cooking this cut, I can see why. It seems to be very difficult to get the meat juicy AND crispy…
Yep. It’s Hubs’s birthday. It was actually a few days ago, but everyone came over last night. On the actual day, we had Molly and Kip over (Hub’s sister and brother in law), and they came again last night. They just moved back here and…
I can be kind of reclusive. I can easily be reclusive for very long periods of time. Like…..years. Usually, when we spend time with friends….which is a lot….we do it at home because I usually cook. And I like to entertain so it totally works…
One of the things I love about steaks….besides the fact that they’re steaks…is that they cook quickly. And steaks are very versatile. No grill? No problem. Oven on the fritz? No problem. Stove not working? No problem. I mean you can even eat the stuff…
So I was talking to a girlfriend of mine, Colleen, the other day and she brought up a place we used to order chicken wings and pizza from way back in the day. Do you ever have one of those Aha! kind of memories that…
Last weekend we headed back to Betty’s…AKA The Shire. Her house sits in the middle of her own private forest and next to her sixty acre vineyard and her nearly two acre private garden. I don’t like to call it a garden. It’s more like…