I love lima beans so much that a friend brought me a lima bean recipes. Here’s it is and it is truly outstanding: Pennsylvania Dutch Beans Many Pennsylvania Dutch dishes trace their origins to the 17th-century German immigrants who farmed the southest part of he state. this bean bake, with its tangy-sweet sour cream sauce,ContinueContinue reading “I [heart] Lima Beans”
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Holiday Cookies 2008
Well, I have achieved almost-complete cookie delivery this fine December 24th with reserved tins for some people we’ll see after Christmas day. This here is one baking mama who is going to run out of cookies this year (unlike last year). Then, last night, one of my neighbors delivered cookies to us. IT ROCKED beingContinueContinue reading “Holiday Cookies 2008”
Did you hear the one about the wife and the casserole?
We’ve been snowed in for 2 days. Today (day 3), I got out for a while – wind chill was well below 0, wind was whipping snow drifts around at 30 miles an hour and I passed a highway closed off due to a multi-car accident. Nevertheless, I got to the gym and got toContinueContinue reading “Did you hear the one about the wife and the casserole?”
Sam I Am
Sometimes I shop at Sam’s Club. Yes, I am going to hell. OK, so Hubby and I were at Sam’s Club. And if you’ve ever been to Sam’s Club, or any place where you can buy items in bulk, you can appreciate how bulk buying can sometimes get out of hand. Below, Hubby with hisContinueContinue reading “Sam I Am”
Mid-Winter Hot Chocolate Reserves
They’re Carrots
Two years ago for the big Christmas dinner at Mom’s I watched as she put a pan of water on the stove to boil and took a package of carrots out of the crisper. I looked askance at the carrots. Carrots? The only times I had eaten cooked carrots since childhood had been 1. inContinueContinue reading “They’re Carrots”
All Out for Christmas
We give Christmas cookie tins and treat bags to, well, everyone. Everyone we like. Everyone who admired them from afar last year (my ego is easily manipulated). Everyone who earns them like the nice guys in facilities at work who keep our building functioning (they get one of the BIG tins). The guy who ownsContinueContinue reading “All Out for Christmas”
