This morning I awoke to a bucket full of very ripe figs on the kitchen counter. Ellis, Linda and Alden had picked them yesterday afternoon after the grapes thinking that we would eat all of them fresh. After eating our fill, we still had quite a bit left!!! I decided to try my hand at [...]
Yesterday was a wonderful day! We spent the day picking cynthiana grapes in the vineyard and making grape jelly. Ellis, Alden, Meredith and I had a great time sitting on the porch at his parents’ house picking the grapes off of the stems with them. Alden is a pro at spotting the rotten ones! (And [...]
I had a leftover ham bone from a spiral ham we had at harvest last weekend and decided to put it to good use in these black eyed peas. They were so yummy! I served them tonight for dinner with rice, cornbread muffins and a salad. The Blanc du Bois wine we had with it [...]
Yesterday, Alden and I made a special trip to Sur la Table to look for fun things to do in the kitchen together. We found an entire set of alphabet cookie cutters and Alden couldn’t wait to get started!! By the time we got home last night it was too late for cookies so I [...]
Since the entire top of our stove was taken up with pear preserves and canning equipment tonight (and I was completely exhausted from standing there stirring the pot all afternoon), I decided to throw something together that could go in the oven. I also had some leftover marinara sauce in the fridge that I wanted [...]
I finally got around to doing something with the hard pears off of the tree in the yard! I think they are Kiefer Pears, but I am not 100% sure. They are very common in the south and are so hard you can’t do anything with them but cook them for hours and hours.
I decided [...]
Tonight I was craving meatloaf, so I decided to make a healthier turkey version. This is a great way to hide veggies in the food if you have picky eaters around! This meatloaf will win over even the people that say that hate it…
1 lb ground turkey
3 carrots, grated
1 cup fresh spinach or 1/2 cup [...]
Tonight we had one of my favorites. And I love it when Alden can’t get enough mushrooms! He ended up eating the mushrooms off of everyone’s plate by the time the meal was over.
4 pork chops (bone in or out - doesn’t matter)
2 cups of baby bella mushrooms, sliced(you can use regular button but they [...]
Alden woke me up at 5:00 am with a crazy request to wash his “brown blanket” (his lovey) and to make muffins, so I thought I would make the best of it and start baking! While we had a great time watching the blanket spin in the soapy water, we had an even better time [...]
After my fabulous birthday weekend celebration in Galveston, it was back to reality on Sunday night. The kids were in bed early, so I was able to prep Monday’s dinner on Sunday night so that all I had to do this morning was add everything to the crockpot and turn it on. There’s nothing like [...]