WINNER!We love Kentucky bread here at our farm table. I have made loaf after loaf of this easy treat, but lately, I have been on a hunt for a dinner roll recipe that would be my signature bread. Do you know what I mean?My mom makes delicious homemade crescent rolls and my mother-in-law makes yummy blender rolls. All their kids and grand-kids look forward to a meal at grandma's, in part, because they LOVE their bread.I think I have bread envy.I want that same special breadbasket … [Read more...]
Simple Saturdays
I am having my favorite kind of Saturday.We have no obligations today, so I slept in a bit and read my book, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, while I drank my tea.Then I made a quick trip to the grocery store, which I should I have done last night when we were in town, but "NO" I can't seem to get myself organized when it comes to food and cooking, to get ingredients for Trisha Yearwood's Tortilla Soup. I learned about it on Sophie's blog earlier this week and wanted to … [Read more...]
Farm Food-Grandma’s Strawberry Shortcake
The strawberry fairy left these in our refrigerator this morning while I was out buying plants. Actually, it was my dad who brought them from their strawberry patch. The berries haven't been very prolific this year, so I was glad to get them.Usually my folks have oodles of berries for all of us to make jam, freeze for the winter, and eat until they are coming out of our ears. Not this year. Because of this, I threw the diet to the wind and pulled out our all-time family favorite shortcake … [Read more...]
Farmhouse FoodI was invited to attend a meeting today that reminded me of this book, which I loved. Sweet "mature" ladies who have been meeting together for 20+ years. Anyway, roll call was an April Fools Joke played on you this year. One of the members said she had recently started a new diet. When she stepped … [Read more...]