I recently wrote an article on a greener kitchen. One of the tips I gave was to save the scraps of food you would normally throw away. I save bones, carrot peelings, onion peels and ends, celery ends, carrot stems and tops and parsley stems. They all go into a freezer bag that I add […]
I’ve turned into such an inconsistent blogger, my life has been railroaded with a platter full of work and activities. After retiring from the Air Force I was trying to find my way, I loved food, any thing and everything to do with food. So I blogged, then went to photography school, then volunteered as […]
It’s no secret my love for Eric and Audra at Groundworks Farm, a local organic farm where I purchase my whole pasture raised pig and use their produce as much as I can. Actually last year I based by whole Cafe Paris menu on what they grew, changing the menu weekly to provide fresh […]
Every month I go through the same thing, I receive my Secret Recipe Club assignment. The goal: choose a recipe from a secretly assigned blog, make it, photograph it and write a little about it, then reveal your secret assignment on a scheduled post day. A Secret Santa club for food bloggers. Only with Secret […]
As you read this I am at my second day of photography school. I wish I could share my thoughts with you but I’m writing this from my cabin one full week before I embark on one of he most exciting and scary things that I’ve decided to do with my life. Of course that […]
Imagine being in a foreign country and not for friendly reasons. You’re there because you stepped up and joined the services. The services…Army, Air Force, Marines, Navy, Coast Guard, the services…to serve. Many people have served this country, they sacrificed me time, family time, friends time and sometimes sacrificed everything, never able to return home […]
Way back in the 70’s when I was a little girl, not much shorter than I am now, my parents used to take my sister and I out to dinner. Sometimes it was Shakey’s pizza, or maybe a burger joint but every now and then they would take us out for Chinese. Going out for […]
Seven is such a magical number, it’s the 4th prime number, it is revealed in the Bible and and the Torah as the world’s creation time, in Japanese mythology there are the Seven Lucky gods, in Irish Mythology the number seven is associated with Cúchulainn, and if you are lucky enough to be the 7th […]
Sometimes life gets in the way of riding, cooking, photographing and blogging like I want to. There just isn’t enough time, often times I’ve thought “I should have waited till I retired to do a blog”. I’ve even thought about putting it on hold for awhile, you know, while I try to catch up on […]
Is everyone as excited about grilling as I am? The weather is warming up and so is my grill. I love to grill so much so, that poor McGyver has slowly been cut off from the job. I couldn’t help myself, there is just something about standing next to the grill, drinking a beer and […]
