My mom loves, loves, then add a little bit more love on top of those loves… key lime pie. Every summer, I make it as my go to party dish for her house. Here’s the thing, at our parties we eat big! So here’s what happens, it’s after dinner, I pull out the pie and […]
Recipes
Peanut Butter Oatmeal
2 inches an hour of snow drifting down in the fields this morning. The morning had a rough start. Sawyer needed to go out at 4:00 am, which didn’t wake me as Bruce crept out of bed to let him out. Although, my eyes popped wide open when a black hairy flying body flew up on my […]
Hickory Nut Cake
Foraging for nuts is part of my childhood. My little tree house used to be in a Chestnut Tree. Chestnuts were not my favorite. They lined the path to the pool and the spiny husks littered the way and I would inevitably stomp on one. The driveway was littered with hickory nuts. Somewhat friendlier nut […]
Drömmar Cookies
Somehow, I’ve been relegated to the Christmas Cookie maker in the family. My mom and grandmother used to meet one glorious day in December and when I returned from school it was a confectionary delight. As I grew up, I was invited once to my grandmother’s to make cookies. Unfortunately, I was the odd man […]
Apple Bacon Egg Bake
When we moved into our house it was the middle of December and this apple tree looked very, very dead. Upon further inspection, it was even worse than we thought. One of the limbs had fallen off in previous years and they had packed the big hole with concrete. We knew that it was going […]