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Pioneer Woman's show last Saturday showed her making meals from food she always has in her pantry.  This got me thinking about which fo...

Every so often I tell people this, just so it's clear what meal I'm talking about.  I realize the vast majority of people consider t...

This is a flower on the hibiscus plant I grew from a seed my cousin gave me.  Isn't it breathtaking?   Almost six inches across!  Don...

We see our son once a year, for a week.  This is when I hold my annual cook-a-thon.  Most of the time it's just Cliff and me here, and I...

Cliff and his sister went to Kansas to visit their brother. I opted to stay home because the men all go out to the shop and work on stuff, ...

This morning I figured that since I have about two thousand butternut squashes, I'd better make squash soup again. Cliff and I both enj...

The weather-guessers guessed right this time: they've forecast two to four inches of snow. It's still coming down. So pretty and ...

Every time Cliff and I are in Richmond at Walmart, I check out the meat that has been marked down 40% because the "sell by" date i...

My daughter had a really busy week, since it was the grand climax of her company's busy season. To celebrate the end of all that work, ...

I spent some time this morning on Five-Dollar Dinners and Living On A Dime; links to those sites are over on the left-hand side of my blog, ...

Let's face it, with temperatures hovering near the freezing point, it's time for hearty soups and stews. A local small-town grocery...

Cliff and I started putting on weight around Thanksgiving, like everybody does. The past couple of years we've done fairly well getting...

I spent two hours in a dentist's chair today. Afterward, Cliff and I went by a local grocery store (NOT a Walmart) and spent another $1...