Occasional Adventures in On-Line Browsing At Sunset on Sunday, December 2, Hanukkah begins. Jewish families will light the first eight candles, one for each day to commemorate the miracle of the Maccabees’ victory and the miracle of the oil that…
I have loved meatloaf since I was a little kid. I have made it many times as an adult and since it is getting cooler outside, I felt like making it recently, so I did. A friend of mine gave…
Here it is. Valentine’s Day. And you have nothing to give. Take a deep sigh. Look in the cupboard for these items or run to the store for: 3 cups Sugar 1 ½ sticks butter, 5 oz. can (2/3 cup)…
Hal, Here it is. Long Island Blueberry cake. Each year when blueberries are plentiful, I make this blueberry cake. I started making it after visiting my sister on Long Island. There was a blueberry bush in her garden that was…
I was in the store the other day and was thinking about baked potatoes. There is nothing like a baked potato! I like them wrapped in foil off the grill or baked for a long time in the oven. I…
What was your most recent impulse buy? Mine was an ice cream maker. For $20 (I love you, Target), my little Sunbeam ice cream maker whips up little batches in 25 minutes. It’s got a canister with thick walls and…
A friend shared this recipe with some of us the other day, it’s good and easy to make! In this picture are 2 of the 12 different variations of the recipe, the top one is the spice and the bottom…
Wow! The other day when it was very cold, I cooked some stew in my crock pot. I posted that I was doing it on FaceBook and got 9 responses, including someone asking if my recipe was going to posted…
Here is a recipe called Senate Bean Soup, I got this from my Dad a number of years ago, he got it from a neighbor and she cut it out of a paper or magazine, somewhere. I don’t usually cook…
Here is another soup from my Dad’s recipe archives, he collected these over the years and this one looked simple and good. It is kind of neat too because it was written down by hand. It’s not my Father’s writing but…