I put together this recipe on a lark (a term you might use to describe most of my experimentation in the kitchen, light hearted with a chance of failure always but that being ok). I call it Three Secrets Chicken because there are three ingredients in it that I think most...

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The time is almost gone for entering your favorite egg recipe at this Egglands Best egg review! Click here The contest ends on 2/8/2010 at 5:00 PM...

I recently got a starter batch of kefir grains from Wardeh at Gnowfglins. She too has her own herd of dairy goats and also works hard to give her loved ones whole and wholesome foods. Her kefir grains have been amazing, quite vigorous, and the kefir delicious! What is kefir? Kefir grains are...

A fact of life with kids and school these days – Snack Must Be Provided For Snack Time. Week after week I have to find a snack that the kids will eat but which is not nasty like cheezits or chips or other sorts of candy. Sometimes they go in with cheese,...

[When I donate during disasters, like the Indonesian Tsunami, I give to the UN World Food Programme. Please do the same for Haiti through THIS LINK] Just like you, I have been struggling with the contrast between our cozy home life and the cataclysm in Haiti. We are snuggled away in...

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Goya and other latino food purveyors have “latino” style flavorings and spice useful to quickly add a certain flavor to foods that some interpret as “latino”. (Note that I never think of myself or refer to myself as “hispanic”. The term “hispanic” was a broad class term coined by...

We have been enjoying christmas here, lots of baking. My mother gave me a Kitchenaid stand mixer and we have been using it for a few initial recipes. One of them is a cheesecake we have baking in the oven as I type. Another is a recipe I whipped together on the...

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a beautiful New Year! Lets hope that the new year and the new decade brings us a greater measure of happiness, resilience, and simple...