With households watching every penny, a growing number of Americans are ditching their takeout menus and heading into the kitchen to cook dinner at home. The trouble is, many don't know how.
"We have forgotten how to cook," says author Mollie Katzen, best known for "The Moosewood Cookbook." As families learned to rely on dialing for pizza, they stopped being able to bake their own.
Daughters Elizabeth, 15, and Susan, 13, are putting in another day of detasseling corn. Susan was hired last week after a few others quit. She was glad to get a chance to earn some money. It has been very hot, though, and they put in a good day’s work. The corn is really high in some fields making it even harder work. Elizabeth was off a few days last week after she poked her eye with a tassel. They wear eye protection but this one went up under her eyeglasses.
There is a new recipe for homemade bread sweeping the Internet. The recipe turns up in varying forms.
Some of the recipes have “artisan” in the title, and some have “five minutes,” but they all have one thing in common: a method for preparing no-fail homemade bread that doesn’t require any kneading or waiting around for hours of rising time.
I asked my butcher how you can have a country rib with no bone. He showed me his knife. OK, I get it.
Then he showed me a slab of pork loin cut from the rib end. Minus the bones, here we have country-style ribs. They are about an inch thick and well primed with fat, which makes them so juicy.
By the time Easter rolls around, we’re more than happy to forget about the gray of winter and welcome cheery colors back into our lives.
These adorable Egg-ceptional Easter Nests aren’t just pretty to look at. Inside the bright and bold foil wrapping lies a delicious Nestlé chocolate egg.
With just a few ingredients and easy assembly, these nests make for a fun cooking craft for kids. Use them as a treat, or as an edible decoration to brighten your holiday table.
We awoke to find a fresh coating of snow in our yard, which was prettier to look at than the mud caused by warmer weather over the past week. We did enjoy two warm, almost 60 degree ,days last week, though. It almost made us have spring fever and made me long for the first warm days when I can go out and plant the garden.
Eating at home can save you some cash, but beware the calorie cost.
Though restaurants often take the blame for portion distortion — the trend of serving up ever larger helpings — cookbook recipes have done some Supersizing of their own, a study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine found.
Two of the children are home from surgery and are taking it easy
The tonsil surgeries of daughter Verena, 11, and son Benjamin, 9, were a success. But now comes the pain after the surgery. The doctor did a very nice job in doing the surgery and the nurses were all very helpful and friendly.
A brand new year has begun. Although the New Year always seems like a good time for resolutions it doesn't take a turn of a year to make some. We started our New Year's with our family gathering at our house. Since my dear parents are departed, our siblings take turns from youngest to oldest to host the annual gatherings. With the total having reached 69 it can seem a bit overwhelming to have everyone over, but it all proves worth the work. I know our parents would want to see us continuing the tradition. We always sing the New Year 's Song at each gathering which was done as far as I can remember in my mother's family. We would go to my grandparents and sing the New Year's Song every New Year's Day. My maternal grandparents would always have all their grandchildren home on New Year's Day for their annual Christmas gathering. Then my parents kept on with the tradition and always had us children and families home on New Year's Day.
The busy Christmas season is upon us. May everyone enjoy the Christmas season but also remember God's amazing love showing through his son, Jesus. Christmas week has brought us frigid temperatures, with the mercury staying right on the zero mark most of the day. We've also had some cold strong winds, which has caused the snow to drift. It makes the house seem cozy with the warm coalstove going.
