I told Edie I’d make her a cherry pie with fresh cherries. I’ve long had the itch to make hand pies and thought this was the perfect opportunity to have at it. I googled a few recipes, but figured, hey, it’s pie that fits in your hand. I know how to make pie, so I will just use my regular crust recipe and make them hand sized. Continue reading
Oysterfest in July
It’s summer squash season.
Summer squash is every where this time of year. While it’s an easy addition to any meal, I’m always looking for new ways to serve it to avoid everyone groaning at the answer of “squash, that’s what’s for dinner”. Inspired in equal parts by a summer squash recipe someone gave me years ago cut out of a magazine as well as one of my favorite lentil soup recipes, I whipped this up for dinner the other night. It turned out so well that I grabbed the camera for a quick shot to share with you all. We will definitely be eating this for dinner again soon and so should you.
Granny’s Crab Soup
We took off to Baltimore this past weekend. Generally I’m not so hot at making time to visit with anyone outside of the particular branch of the family tree we are staying with, but one of the beauties of summer is that we have enough wiggle room in our schedule to have long weekends. Which means being able to make time to see people we really want to see.
Hopping to it.
Suzicate is a creative kindred spirit, with her poetry blog, her sewing/quilting/fiber arts blog in addition to The Water Witch’s Daughter. Suzi is an amazing photographer as well as an inspiring writer. Whatever the topic of her latest post over on The Water Witch’s Daughter, I find it has some relevance to what is going on in my life, every time. She approached me a few weeks ago about participating in a creative blog hop with her. As I often find myself either in some sort of conversation about creativity or following the path of some creative avenue, I thought it was right up my alley. Continue reading
In the gardens.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a garden post. I’ve mentioned I’ve expanded to a second vegetable patch off site – in the nearby community gardens located behind the English Inn – but I haven’t shared anything from that site with you all yet, have I? Well, let’s fix that. Continue reading
My Favorite Books: D.V.
I love Patience Crabstick’s Friday Reading Assignment posts. They inspire me to write more about what I read, although to be honest, my reading list is not nearly as lofty as Patience’s. She is currently working on a Fifty Classics Project while I tend to read well, nothing that highbrow. For the last few months, I’ve been reading what Edie is reading, partially to keep tabs on what she’s reading and partially because she hands me books she wants to discuss with me. I keep intending to write about at least some of these books – they are not all The Fault in Our Stars and The Hunger Games – but first is a book I recently shared with her. It’s one of my all time favorites – D.V. , Diana Vreeland’s autobiography. Continue reading
Strawberry Rhubarb “Pie”
As the banner strawberry season continued, I started looking for ways in which we had not yet eaten our bounty. Edie suggested strawberry rhubarb pie. I still had a tub of the creamy frozen delight that was otherwise known as strawberry ice cream fail that would pair wonderfully with a pie. However, as I found myself in the kitchen the other afternoon, I realized I just wasn’t in the mood to make a pie crust. I know I claim they are easy peasy, but I had spent the better part of the last two days working in both gardens, finally getting them both in for the summer growing season, I had picked up the house and had a batch of bread rising. Pie just seemed to be slightly overly ambitious for one afternoon. Continue reading
Mrs. Cape’s Pimento Cheese.
At the outset of last week, I realized if we were going to eat dinner, I was going to have to do some planning (and cooking) ahead. I wanted several options for meals we could just grab and go, making life a little bit easier. One of those options was pimento cheese. Continue reading
And it’s a wrap.
A few years ago, a friend once remarked that you could be a parent the last week of school or you could work, but you could not be a working parent that week. The number of activities that seem to require your presence do not leave much time to do anything but be a parent. Here, we had: Continue reading
Chicken Wire & Paper Flowers 