Fresh Ginger

I have been a bit under the weather for the last 6 days. I started out making traditional comfort food like lemon and herb roasted chicken. then switched to my NM comfort foods, pork and green chile. Went back to childhood with tater tots (feeling too crappy to cook even that night) […]

I have had a busy year. Well, 5 years. Four years ago the ball got rolling by having a gigantic limb fall from the 70-80 year old cottonwood by the garage (there were three of these giant trees). The tree fell on my mulberry tree - a fruiting one and my fence […]

Yum. I haven’t even baked them yet and I already can’t resist them. I am not a raw cookie dough eater by nature, but, well, it has been awhile since I have had a delicious choc chip cookie. I did make some with oats several months ago and used ground up McCann’s […]

Homemade GF beer will come, if you make it…
Keeping up with the GF beer world. Here is a nice comparison of what is out there. I have yet to make my own, but I will. It has been enough for the last year to relearn how to cook fav’s, start baking any […]

Well, I have been having blog envy for a while now. The solution? Design my own blog with my colors and layout. I wanted a theme to match my mood, the colors of Mexico. It is still in process, but from now on I plan to post on this site: http://www.freshginger.org/ […]

I have to gush for just a moment here, so give me a small gush moment if you would. Last night I was making stir fried shrimp with snow peas from this magazine http://www.saveur.com/ (of course I can’t find the recipe online to link to it) and my sweetie offered to make me a […]

Ok, I completely forgot for a while that this blog is also about knitting and gardening too, so here is my first post of a knitting project. I should have lots of photos, but have a habit of giving the finished knitting project away before photographing. Here are my adorable niece and nephew […]

For me, it is all about the sauce and the crunch, well, two sauces really. Hot wing sauce and blue cheese sauce. Eating wings is a reason to eat the wing sauce. Just like for my dad, eating shrimp is just a way to eat as much cocktail sauce as he wants. […]

Day 5 Savannah and Hilton Head. After sleeping in and waking up to the sound of the surf and gulls on Tybee Island, we headed in to explore Savannah. I am not going to blog about the dinner we had on Tybee Island, needless to say, we should have gone with our gut […]