I thought I’d share my Easter dinner menu with you and maybe you’ll share yours too. People generally like sharing menus because it helps give everyone ideas about foods we might not have thought about. I usually bake a ham on Easter and make a coconut cake. Just a tradition…
I’m sitting in my office watching the maple seed ‘helicopters” fall on the deck. The sun is shining and the breeze is blowing. It’s a good day to think about what Jesus has done for me. He means more to me than He did years ago when I first was…
Have you ever had Foccacia? I have made it for years but never as a dessert! I found a scrumptious recipe for Lemon Blueberry Sourdough Foccacia and made it a few weeks ago. It was a big hit here and let me tell you, it’s probably my favorite dessert of…
These muffins are super easy to make if you have a sourdough starter. The original recipe can be found at Traditional Cooking School, which is where I work! Come by and visit if you can. I make mine a little differently than TCS does but you could follow either recipe.…
Here’s how to make yogurt using your Instant Pot. You will need: An Instant Pot with a Yogurt Button A thermometer A whisk 2 quarts of cow milk 1/2 cup of live culture plain yogurt Measuring cups A fine strainer, I use a Greek yogurt strainer. You can find them…
It’s the big thing right now, sourdough bread! I’ve been making sourdough since 1999 when I owned a bakery. These days I teach people how to make sourdough bread (among other things) at Traditional Cooking School . Anyone can make a successful sourdough starter and sourdough bread, it really isn’t…
Any time I can purchase good, healthy meat for a good price, I try to do so. Once I find it, I lie to stock up because I can freeze it or can it. It’s best to have food stored in as many ways as you can. Freezers sometimes stop…
This is one of the first things I ever wrote when I started my website some 30 years ago. I thought you might like to read it. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Galatians 5:22 Brothers, if anyone is caught in…
When I was a child I thought everyone cooked with cast iron. Everyone I knew did. Then I got older and realized that there were a lot more choices out there. Waterless cookware, aluminum, stainless, porcelain covered steel. I learned to cook in cast iron and I still prefer it…
I made some Baby Balm recently, what with all the new grandbabies … but its also great for dry heels and elbows and even to protect facial skin before going out into the wind or cold. This balm is soft and smells so good. The best thing about it is…