by Lillian Lake | | Food, Recipes
This week I drove home from New Hampshire in a nasty snow and rain combination. It wasn’t fun, but my current favorite radio station had started playing Christmas songs around the clock that very day. How lucky can a girl be hearing some of her favorite Christmas...
by Lillian Lake | | Food, Recipes
Summer has settled in nicely. I know this well by taking inventory of dust accumulating on the furniture; mail that has not been shredded or filed; and on the upside, outdoor planters filling out with emerging blossoms. I have all winter to fuss with things inside,...
by Lillian Lake | | Building Community, Food, Recipes
Summer is in the history books and tomato canning season is underway. Tomatoes are a fairly easy fruit to grow. You can grow them directly in the ground or in containers. My parents used to grow several different kinds. Picturing my mom in her “Daisy May” gardening...
by Lillian Lake | | Coffee, Food, Recipes
This past weekend we took an opportunity to “get out of Dodge” and went to visit my daughter and her family. I took a freshly, baked loaf of “Nona” bread and homemade butter. I love that my granddaughters have coined it “Nona Bread”. There’s nothing that makes my...
by Lillian Lake | | Desserts, Food, Recipes
It’s the first full week of June, and we have three national food holidays in one weekend! June 9 is “National Rhubarb Pie Day,” June 10 is “National Iced Tea Day,” and “National Herbs and Spices Day. Last week I wrote about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Pie Plant,” more...
by Lillian Lake | | Farms, Food, Recipes
Brillat-Savarin said, “The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.” While I have been equally in awe of each, I would probably choose the new dish. This week as I gazed at my neighbor’s robust rhubarb patch, I pondered...
