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This week’s menu swap host is Manda over at Asparagus Thin and peas are the featured ingredient. My darling BF saw the subject peas and promptly boycotted the ingredient this week, but I plan to work them in for a dish just for me, peas with prosciutto and dill. Lately I have been […]

This week’s menu swap is hosted by Gluten Free Mommy and the ingredient is lemon! The ironic thing is I used about a dozen lemons in last week’s menu. I was in a lemon mood and ate most of the 8×8 pan of double lemon bars myself over the week.
Sunday: Wales, home […]

I saw this delicious looking loaf of bread on I’m hungry and decided it would be a good idea to try it, with tweaks of course. Being lazy I used spelt flour instead of a gluten free flour and started the involved process. The result: Rich, flavorful, herby, cheesy (I used 3 […]

This week’s menu swap is being hosted by Ginger Lemon Girl and the theme is chocolate! Since it is Valentine’s Day this week, I thought I would send you all some flowers and remind you that spring is on the way:

If you look closely, you will see a honey bee flying in to the […]

I believe I have previously mentioned that my house is for sale right now. We put quite a bit of mola into redoing the kitchen floors and painting the kitchen cupboards and three rooms in the basement. (I will get around too blogging about cooking and knitting in a bit, hold on) Ah, […]

We are well stocked:

Once again we are hosting a New Year’s eve party. This was only decided on Thursday night last week after my sweetie mixed me a nice strong cosmo something or other. Once the email goes out to the gang, it is too late to retract it! We had to […]

Well this started out as a food, knitting and brewing blog and got a little side tracked by all things food. I just started a new knitting project. People all around me seem to be in baby having mode, so I have started a baby blanket for my good friends who think they […]

Wild ramps (leeks to me), garden garlic (not my garden, but a friend’s), garlic chives, chives, and onions. That is what I used for my onion family soup - all in the allium family.

I learned to make the basis of this soup 10 years ago when I worked at McMenamins Brewery in Hilsboro Oregon. […]