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.
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…
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…
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. You…
Gary & Patty Thompson on Hawaiian Second Honeymoon Tour Forty years ago today (February 17, 1968, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) my brother Gary Thompson and Patricia (Patty) Murrary wed to become Gary and Patty Thompson. They’ve stayed that way for 40 years. That’s no small feat in today’s fast-dissolving-of-everything world. They’ve founded a family of…