(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 The very friendly people at General Mills and particularly Betty Crocker have invited me to come out to their test kitchens to take a...

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...

BlogHer, my main advertising network and a fantastic group of people, have included me in their JMS $500 shopping spree contest which I can then offer here. To learn more about this contest visit this page. [This giveaway is now closed] Good...

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...