Thanksgiving week Menu Swap: sweet potatoes

Sea of Book of Yum is hosting the swap this week and has chosen sweet potatoes as the ingredient.  It took me a long time to realize that sweet potatoes are great.  As a kid they were always coated in marshmallows and brown sugar, not having a sweet tooth and not liking marshmallows much, the […]

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Menu Swap Monday October 20th: Squash

Squash.  It has such a great sounding name and it can make a nice squish when you eat it.  Food that sounds like it is.  Kim of Gluten Free is Life is hosting this week’s swap.  I do have two pumpkins that I will attempt to carve this week in honor of squash and their […]

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Menu Swap October 6th: pears and localvore meals

It’s the end of the gardening season here in Michigan.  So I greet you with a parting shot of sunniness in the rain - the last sunflower of the season.  Ah such a bittersweet ending to the summer.  However cool crisp autumnal smells are in the air and if it were not for the loss […]

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Menu of the week September 15th - Plantains!

I can happily say, I am porked out.  We co hosted a going away party for a friend who is moving to Virginia and I made porchetta.  That’s right, porchetta, one of the most delicious pork items on earth.  I didn’t have a deboned suckling pig handy, so I asked my butcher to debone two […]

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