Last St. Patrick' Day, I made Irish Brown Bread , a type of Irish Soda Bread. I had never made it before and found it easy, quick, and q...

For summer meals I do as little cooking as possible. That means dinner salads are often on the menu. This one is a take-off on ta...

Soup season has come to an end. Soup is our favorite winter lunch, so all summer long I stick leftovers into a recycled peanut butter jar as...

 I don't usually post much about holidays, but you may recall my Christmas series last December, Christmas Songs of My Ancestors ...

This time of year we have a number of seasonal dishes, all from Christmas leftovers! One of them is split pea soup. It's my favorite way...

A lot of people make their own mayonnaise, but for some reason, the idea always intimidated me. I have no idea why; maybe it was ju...

This has become one of our favorite side dishes.  It's tasty and another great way to get probiotics into our diet. And, it's quick ...

The best sauerkraut is said to be made in its own juices. The cabbage is shredded and pounded enough to bruise the juice out of it. The requ...

Tis' the season not only for soup , but now, for festive snack foods. Here's one I made recently, after years of forgetting about th...

As promised at the end of my Pemmican blog post , here's my first cooking experiment with my pemmican. This is rubaboo or pemmican soup....

This is not a combination I would have come up with by myself, but my daughter assured me it's a delicious combination. I always ma...

Chevon and grilled onion sandwich with oven fried potatoes, and homemade ketchup. We don't eat a lot of ketchup. In fact, I'm the on...

Dan and I love dessert. We grew up in different parts of the country, but both of our families considered dessert to be part of a pr...