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Celebrate Black History Month with Dinner at Indigo House
Celebrate Black History Month this year with a Southern Sunday Supper on a Saturday Night. On Saturday, February 24th, 2018 this dinner for eight will feature iconic African-American and Southern dishes. After a 1st course of “Pot Likker” soup accompanied…
Ultimate Winter Comfort Food: Split Pea and Ham Soup
Split Pea soup is one of my favorite soups. When I was a little girl in the early 1950’s it took almost 18 hours to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco on Highway 101. My mother and stepfather and…
HURRAH FOR THE AMAZING NUMBER OF HOME GARDEN VEGETABLE VARIETIES
It’s the time of year that we who are garden starved pour over the mail order seed catalogs and yearn to get our hands into the dirt. No matter that it’s cold and icy and wet and stormy and the…
IN WHICH WE MAKE PIZZA IN OUR HOME BUILT WOOD BREAD OVEN
Yesterday our family had the delicious fun of making pizza in our wood oven for the first time in the yard out by the picnic table under the oak tree. The wind was chilly even though the sky was bright…
In which I make beef and venison hand pies
It was chilly and overcast today – a high of 42-ish. I remembered a recipe for Cornish Pasties I saw in a recent South Dakota magazine and someone on facebook posted a meat pie idea which jogged me into action.…
No fresh eggs
After many years of always having our own eggs, this winter the old hens ran out of laying power before the young pullets kicked in. So we have had to buy store eggs for the first time on over a…