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My Fab Dijon (sounds like the title of a 50’s pop song!)
At my monthly soiree we made mustard, ate it with all sorts of cheeses and breads, and everyone got to take some home. See? It’s addicting!!! Soak overnight: ½ C. brown mustard seed ½ C. yellow mustard seed 1 C.…
Mustard is a perfect condiment for summer: Make your own from scratch!
My son-in-law Chris is nicknamed Mustard! So of course I had to ask him if he had ever made mustard. No says he. So that determined me to explore the topic myself. I’ve always liked rough textured mustards but the…
The Railroad and the Catalogue
From the late 19th century till well into the 20th Montgomery Ward and Sears supplied Americans on the farm and in small towns with all the tools for self-reliance but nobody was fooling themselves with some idea that they didn’t…
Pipes and feathers; Native American trade items
In truth long before Columbus arrived in the New World Native American cultures traded over long distances for interesting and innovative products not available locally; the red soapstone (Catlinite) for sacred tobacco pipes is one example, decorative bird feathers from…
Dotty the Pig is getting bigger every day
She nibbles out of our hands, begs for an ear scratch, and eats, eats, eats!!
All the rainy day cooking
Here is my yesterday’s production! Six quarts of beans and ham. Four dozen cabbage rolls, and a five pound bowl of hummus.