In honor of Chef Edna Lewis
In the cozy and warm dining room of Okra’s Restaurant in Manassas Chef Carla Hall and I got to share our skills in honor of the memory of Chef Edna Lewis (1914-2006), the author of The Taste of Country Cooking.…
Cookery Classes for 2011
The class schedule for 2011 is now up on my Classes page!
The kitchen in our new house progresses
A Bit About Brussles Sprouts
Unlike the chunky, dry, strong flavored mini-cabbages many of us were first introduced to as children real homegrown Brussles Sprouts are tiny nubbins of concentrated yummy taste. Here are what the harvested plants look like. While this picture was taken…
Ok, Kids, It’s Time to Roast Garlic!
Of course the house smells a bit but in one fell swoop you can have the entire winter’s worth of roasted garlic in your fridge with just one afternoon of work. I buy several sleeves of fall harvest garlic (it’s…
Milk Cow Retrospective
Here’s me and my favorite cow ever with her new heifer ‘back in the day’ on our farm in South Dakota! It was the spring of 1982 and the calf was the first heifer after a run of 6 bull…