This morning I felt a familiar sensation in a totally unexpected place: an EARTHQUAKE (5.2 as it turns out), but in the Midwest, not Northern California, where earthquakes had become so common as not to be remarked upon. In California, pundits were always warning of California falling off into the ocean. Hey, maybe the country […]
Now that I’m back in the heartland of the Midwest, I’m happily enjoying Oberle’s Headcheese. Yes, I understand. It’s an acquired taste. But, for us farmgirls, it’s a natural.
Oberle’s Meat Market
21529 Highway 32
Ste. Genevieve, Missouri 63670
(573) 883-5656
Offering the original famous Oberle sausage, smoked pork loin, garlic cheese and a wide selection of other prepared meats […]
Dagoba organic chocolate, eclipse 87 percent cacao content, extra dark chocolate
That’s what I’m imbibing (yes, imbibing) this morning with my tea…looseleaf black tea with condensed milk whisked in.
The thing about these super-rich extra darks is that they go best with a beverage so they melt in your mouth.
As the saying is in Ghana, “No […]
If you live in the Dallas area…if you’re travelling to the Dallas area…If you live anywhere in Texas…come on down to Alla’s Historical Dallas Bed and Breakfast where old ways and new ways meet to offer a thoroughly modern version of old world hospitality…and, enjoy the rooster!
Alla is what makes Alla’s B & B a […]
Click here to read Redwood Coast Review’s lead article by Daniel Barth, “Staying Afloat: The poor devil author in the 21st century,” online in pdf form.
Daniel Barth’s article is well-researched and chockfull of information about Big Picture Publishing and how three authors in his region, Northern California, have responded in three distinctive ways to […]
When my dear friend Daniel Holland set off to return to his home in Lake County in Northern California this week, I wanted to give him something to stick with him as we traveled in the blustery St. Louis weather via MetroLink to the airport and then he flew home.
Improvisational cooks know the best […]
You may be finished with your holiday baking. You may be sated from all your holiday eating.
Or, you may be bored in this week of the dead in these days between Christmas Day and New Year in which my birthday happens to fall.
Or, you may even be collecting yourself for next year. […]
Judy Tart writes: “Here for my wonky friends—play this vocabulary game and feed the hungry– -have fun and help people at the same time.”
I got above 1,000 grains of rice…44 vocab level…decided I’d better stop and put it on my blog.
For every word you get right, Free Rice donates 20 grains of rice through […]
If you are in the mood for a taste of something rich, smooth, and choc-late-y, but not too sweet…and nutritious into the bargain, this is the recipe for you. Like all Riehlife Recipes, it’s super-easy…the only way to go. You can eat this as a snack, of as morning lite-bite.
INGREDIENTS
Chose a good quality bread. Any […]
Bachelor/Bachelorette Scrambles is a recipe for those times when you wish to cacoon in your chrysalis and perhaps there is little in your refrigerator except eggs. For me, this is comfort food. What I love about Bachelor Scrambles is the simplicity…and the texture that comes from scrambling the eggs directly in the iron skillet.
You will […]
