I have a ton of posts pending … just need to find the time to write up recipes and work on the images. Here’s part of what’s been taking up my time lately. 3 boxes of these take a while to process.
More coming …

The August 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by LizG of Bits n’ Bites and Anula of Anula’s Kitchen. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make pierogi from scratch and an optional challenge to provide one filling that best represents their locale.

This was a …

This week at the farmer’s market, it was all about the tomatoes. I bought 2 large bags of tomatoes at about $0.30 a pound. I knew immediately that I’d be making a huge batch of my summer-time standby salsa. This is one …

Every year around the holidays our family makes frozen whiskey sours.  The recipe is written on an old 3×5 card, smudged, folded, with bent corners.  The jars used to freeze the mix are old peanut butter jars – at least 25 years old – with …

For food bloggers just starting out with their first DSLR, I usually recommend the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D Lens as a fantastic basic, all purpose food lens. If there’s a little extra money available, Nikon 50mm f/1.4D AF Lens is my absolute favorite go-to lens …

My friend Shannon (who I have mentioned here before) recommended this tea to me a week or so ago as being a fabulous afternoon “pick me up” drink. Her food and drink advice is always good, so I immediately ordered a tin of the sachets …

Eating clean is a phrase that’s thrown around a lot these days by foodies, dieters, trainers, and many others. There are dozens of books on it; a search for Clean Eating on Amazon returns 20+ pages of books, magazines, and cookbooks. And each …