One hundred year-old cookbook tells all

I’m flipping gently through the pages of Tried and True Cook Book No. 2, published in 1907 by the Eisele Printing Co. in Cleveland, written by The Ladies of The Miles Avenue Christian Church and Their Friends. The recipes are all written in paragraph format, no ingredients list, most only a few sentences. The pages [...]

Chocolate orange cupcakes with ganache and buttercream and a side of reupholstered dining room chairs

Busyness all weekend (nothing seed or garden related, but I’m out of the self-flagellation business, so we’ll just vett that to next weekend’s to-do list). Chris surprised me Saturday afternoon by coming home with four new seats for the dining room chairs cut out of 3/8″ plywood. We all got busy taking the nasty covers [...]

Buying a garden in the name of sanity

I made a decision yesterday and it felt so good. It’s a step in the direction of filling my pantry and freezer with my own food. It will cost more money than my original plan, and could be considered the easy way out. But I’ve recently discovered that laziness is the doorway to productivity. Overdoing [...]

Coconut cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

So! Sorry family (New Englanders, all) but that was some game last night. I couldn’t help rooting for NY, they played so hard. The only treat I made for the game was a batch of Ina Garten’s Coconut Cupcakes. The cream cheese frosting came out like silk. But I really need to work on my [...]

Pickled turnips, redux

To the soul who found my site by searching “buy pickled turnips”: Don’t buy them! Make them! It’s so super-easy and inexpensive and more delicious than you can ever imagine. Note to self: buy more turnips, you only have a few slivers left in the jar. Bookmark It

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