Quick Pickled Red Onion Slices

Quick Pickled Red Onion Slices

If you’re looking for an easy way to add flavor and crunch to sandwiches, salads, and burgers, these quick pickled red onion slices are your ace in the hole. They’re simple to make and so flavorful.

Cucumber Salad with Dill

Cucumber Salad with Dill

This cucumber salad combines the refreshing flavor of cucumbers with the creaminess of buttermilk and flavor of fresh dill.

Corn and Tomato Salad with Basil

Corn and Tomato Salad with Basil

During the summer months, we try to grow, harvest, preserve, and eat the best of what is in season here in New England.  Summer is such a short season here that there isn’t a moment to waste, so it’s a very busy time. Summer flavors Read More

Dijon Potato Salad

Dijon Potato Salad

I started making this warm Dijon potato salad last summer.  Since then, it has become a common side dish on our dinner plates.  It’s so simple to prepare and full of delicious flavors and textures.  It makes the perfect accompaniment for burgers, grilled meats, or Read More

My Favorite Homemade Creamy Salad Dressings

My Favorite Homemade Creamy Salad Dressings

There’s something about the utter simplicity of a crisp salad dressed with just the right amount of flavor in the form of a delicious dressing.  When the temperature warms up each spring, I find myself craving something fresh and bright, a welcome change from the Read More

Cast Iron Skillet Cornbread

Cast Iron Skillet Cornbread

Cornbread is a modern take on a recipe as old as America.  When the first European settlers arrived on the shore of the New World, they were introduced to corn, called “maize”.  The Powhatan Indians cultivated corn and used it to produce a variety of Read More

Black-eyed Peas:  A New Year’s Tradition and American History Lesson

Black-eyed Peas: A New Year’s Tradition and American History Lesson

Like many families, we start our New Year with a dinner that includes black-eyed peas, cornbread, and greens.  It’s a tradition that we started several years ago after moving to New England.  It simply wouldn’t seem like the first day of the year without black-eyed Read More

Instant Pot Macaroni and Cheese

Instant Pot Macaroni and Cheese

Is there anything more warm and comforting than homemade macaroni and cheese? There’s just something about the unctuous cheese sauce, tender macaroni, and the knowledge that you went to the trouble to make something from scratch that can be made from a box with a Read More

Heirloom Tomato Panzanella

Heirloom Tomato Panzanella

Tomato Panzanella has a fancy name, but the dish is simple summer perfection. The tomatoes are the star of this recipe and they make it sing with summer flavor.

The Secret to Making Perfect Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits

The Secret to Making Perfect Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits

Biscuits.  Just reading the word brings up thoughts of flaky, tender biscuits still warm from the oven topped with a pat of butter and a drizzle of honey.  My mouth waters just thinking about it. I hear from readers quite often who have struggled to Read More

Ratatouille

Ratatouille

For me, ratatouille is a celebration of our summer garden harvest.  I often think of this dish as I’m planning the next year’s garden, adding seeds to my shopping cart in anticipation of planting, tending, and harvesting the fresh ingredients that put this meal on Read More

Farmhouse Coleslaw

Farmhouse Coleslaw

I love cabbage.  I like it raw.  I like it cooked, especially in the traditional German dishes my grandmother made when I was a child.  Hand me a soft Bierock filled with seasoned ground beef and sautéed cabbage and prepare for me to get misty Read More