My family loves cranberry season. As soon as the gorgeous red fruits arrive in the stores, I bring home several bags and start making maple cranberry butter, cocktails, tea, cranberry upside down cake, cookies, and other delicious things. I first started making this cranberry curd from Cooking Light a couple years ago, and we love […]
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Pumpkin Cream Cheese Spread
Yes, it’s that time of year when the word “pumpkin” is found all over everything on the Internet and in the stores. Being a seasonal food gal myself, I look forward to all the pumpkin goodness, both savory and sweet, and my boys always ask when we can start having pumpkin muffins and scones. And […]
Roasted Carrots with Moroccan Spices
I planted our first carrots two years ago. We have raised beds over heavy clay soil, so I opted for shorter Danvers half longs. Crop failure the first year, then finally last year we got some. Monkey Boy was so excited when he pulled them and realized that carrots really do grow underground. So our […]
Roasted Bacon-Wrapped Pork Tenderloin
Is Sunday dinner/supper the most important meal of the week for your family? It was when I was growing up. I always looked forward to Mom’s pot roast, or fried chicken, or whatever special she had planned for the day. Sometimes Dad had to go to work, but I remember sitting down together as a […]
Italian Sausage, Kale, and Cannellini Bean Soup
While recovering from surgery in February, our friends and neighbors made wonderful meals for us, which is a very good thing because I wasn’t going anywhere far from the chair during that first week. My neighbor Dee Dee brought over a pot of sausage and lentil soup that my guys flipped over—yes, the boys went […]
