• Corned Beef and Cabbage
    Eat,  Family

    Corned Beef and Cabbage

    There are those who can trace their ancestry back hundreds and hundreds of years.  I am not among them.  Yes, my maternal Grandmother’s father came over from Ireland when he was a child, but that’s all I’ve got beyond stories and jumbled memories from a childhood filled with a storyteller’s stories…you know, a mind that takes facts and turns them…

  • Meyer Lemon Recipe Extravaganza
    DIY,  Eat

    Meyer Lemon Recipe Extravaganza

    If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you will have seen that I received a very exciting package in the mail last week! It came at the end of a very long day and I was not feeling so hot. We were expecting several packages containing items for Sprout, so when I saw three packages on the doorstep, I…

  • Eat

    Herbed Buttermilk Biscuits

    Herbed Buttermilk Biscuits are my absolute favorite biscuit to make and have become a Thanksgiving tradition because 1) Fish Girl always helps me with the prepping of all the herbs that go into them and 2) Brother could eat every single one I make, and would if I let him.  He LOVES them and that makes me happy. Unfortunately, I…

  • Everything Else

    Pot Roast

    As part of our renewed adventures in meal planning, Tool Lady made us a delicious pot roast last weekend. If you’ve been around for a while, you know that Tool Lady never uses exact measurements, so of course, all measurements below are approximate.  However, I do have to say, the addition of the pickled hot pepper and a bit of…

  • Food & Drink

    Fancy Water

    It seems that, recently, “vitamin water” has become all the rage.  Not the kind you buy in the store (with all of its sugar and artificial colors), but the kind you throw together at home using whatever you have on hand. We have done this for the past few years, usually with one or two additions (mint by itself, mint…