Grandpa didn’t have far to go to holler “come on you kids lets go hay!” because we lived upstairs in his house and had for several years during the war years of the early 1940’s. We scrambled down the stairs and out into the hot July sunshine.  Haying meant we would all have a turn […]

Busy times call for easy, quick and healthy meal options. How about having your entire meal roasted on a stick, no clean up! Shishkebabs are  actually a Turkish dish, “shish” refers to the stick and “kebab” is the meat.They have traveled around the world so many varieties of shishkebabs exist. Meats such as chicken, lamb […]

Super quiet here following a week of the offspring visiting and bringing their children along for the fun and frolic. It is a major feat to have everyone’s schedules come together in unison, but I’m so glad that they all still make an effort. We ate and ate and ate and along with all that […]

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Busy times call for easy, quick and healthy meal options. How about having your entire meal roasted on a stick, no clean up! Shish kebab are actually a Turkish dish, “shish” refers to the stick and “kebab” is the meat.They have traveled around the world so many varieties of shish kebab exist. Meats such as […]

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Story of William Blackstone Reynolds

Back to life…back to reality…back to school! It’s time kids, you have had your 3 months of fun and now the real excitement begins. Parents are often on the fence about how they feel about school starting again. Some feel relieved that their child will be supervised and learning new things and others just want […]

I had intended to write about pies and a trip Downeast. However, I need to talk with you about a far more serious topic directly related to food and our climate. You have seen on the news and through social media outlets that the Amazon forest is burning. The vast acreage of the Amazon forest […]