(Chicken Fried pork medallions, fried green tomatoes, sautéed garden spinach, white pan gravy) This is a both a cookbook review and a giveaway. Five copies of this cookbook will be given away, the winners being selected on October 31, 2010 when there will be a simultaneous live event by Meredith Laurence, the author, on QVC...

Thanks to the generosity of the CSN Stores, their site Cookware.com and their great social media outreach people I have been given an opportunity to review several kitchen tools that are basic but, in my mind, are “good things to have.” The one I am going to share with you today is a piece of...

Wholesome energizing breakfasts on school mornings can be so hard! I am not the sort to fly out of bed full of energy so the idea of running to the kitchen and making some lovely home-raised eggs or some organic oatmeal for anyone just defeats me. I can do it on the weekend no problem...

Betty Crocker related posts: Going on a blogger outing to Betty Crocker Marta Darby, Brownie Goody Bars and Betty Crocker To Die For Lemon Cream Crepes My two amazingly action packed days at General Mills and the Betty Crocker kitchens still boggle me – we got so much done! From the moment we arrived at...

Homegrown heirloom tomatoes I don’t know about you but we are about to start a new school year here. If all your dining tables are like mine, they are covered in a motley assortment of new backpacks, crisp new binders and folders, pens, bottles of glue, markers, crayons, the list goes on! On top of...

Betty Crocker related posts: Going on a blogger outing to Betty Crocker Marta Darby, Brownie Goody Bars and Betty Crocker To Die For Lemon Cream Crepes As you know, I got a chance to go visit the Betty Crocker test kitchens at General Mills this week and I had such fantastic fun! There is quite...

Last year, in our garden (see our organic and permaculture homesteading gardening blog here – Humble Garden), we had a catastrophic tomato failure when I lost all 60 home sprouted heirloom tomatoes to the early blight. I had a bonfire and then tried to forget but failed miserably as I mourned their loss all year....

I have started a new focus on my blog that pulls together various interests I have that will hopefully be of use to some of you and which will be very important to me. As some of you know, I am a scientist (PhD Cell ad Developmental Biology) so I have a particular skill set...

When I was offered an opportunity to review the book “Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers” by Terry Hope Romero I was intrigued. Knowing latino cuisine as I do, the thought of a vegan adaptation of this heavily pork laden foodway boggled my mind. You can see from the traditional...

We had a little party in the garden to celebrate the summer solstice. It was a quick one because I had to milk the goats right after so that I was not doing that in the dark! For this party I made the 1-2-3-4 yellow cake in Joy of Cooking and then iced it with...