By Amanda Rose | Fun
Happy Thanksgiving! Especially to you Americans. 🙂 We have had a difficult week with a family funeral on Tuesday but that makes it all the more important to enjoy some of the delightful sights that nature brings. Yesterday was a lushly warm fall day. We’ve gathered red leaves for center pieces and have a giant […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Tomatoes
Spreads and dips are so quick and simple to put together, I’m not sure why I don’t do it more often. It is wonderful to have a container of spread in the refrigerator that will turn the plainest sandwich into a gourmet delight or to use it as a dip with veggies and chips. When […]
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By Amanda Rose | Broth
A turkey often sits center in a holiday meal and while the leftover white meat makes great turkey sandwiches and the dark meat is a great complement to casseroles and salads, many people discard the turkey carcass itself and miss their opportunity for a great soup. They also miss their chance to benefit from the […]
Continue readingBy Jeanie Rose | Salmon
I had an experience with salmon dip at a party that was so memorable that I have wanted to reproduce it for years. Quite unashamedly, I hung around the dip on the snack table at the party, dipping in and inquiring as to who made this heavenly concoction. The cook arrived on the scene. In […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Beans
I love glorious cool days filled with outside projects. The air is exhilarating and the exercise invigorating. What can make me cranky on a day like this is to have to stop and cook. Surely you’ve also noticed the appetites that accompany such work projects. Here is one of my answers to the problem — […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Berries
Years ago I had a taste of a blackberry dish that Jim Tollerico had prepared. He said that the recipe had come down in his family and it served him well since he had quite the stand of blackberries on his property. My thought had always been to get that recipe from him but Jim […]
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