There are times when I plan out my grocery list for the week that I have no idea what I’m going to cook. I’m sure you have experienced this as well. You’ve hit all the favorites too many times, don’t have the energy to tackle some new and involved recipe, or nothing sounds good. This […]

There are certain things that have the power to take you back in time.  No, I’m not talking about a complex invention like a Delorean with a flux capacitor, or a theoretical tunnel through space after crossing the event horizon of a black hole.  Something as common as a scent will do, especially if it […]

I have to assume if you are a regular reader of this column, then you are serious about maintaining a healthy lifestyle and making each meal as healthy as possible.  Fair warning to all those new to this way of living, the peer pressure from family and friends to put that all aside from Thanksgiving […]

It’s Thanksgiving week.  I know the first image that always conjures up is the giant roast turkey from a Norman Rockwell painting, but for me, the star of the show was always my grandmother’s chicken and dressing.  It stands out in my memory as a plate full of happiness and contentment.  Maybe it was the […]

Spaghetti squash seems to get a lot of push-back, through no fault of its own.  People will tell me it’s too mushy, the noodles aren’t long enough, and it doesn’t hold up structurally in dishes.  I’ve got some hard news for you.  Those issues are all your fault.   The spaghetti squash is more than capable […]

  Ground your chickens and cook your bacon I’m sure you’ve noticed that everything is more expensive these days. Chicken breasts are no exception. The last time I bought local, pasture raised chicken breasts, I thought I was going to have to finance it for a couple of years.  Lately I’ve decided to go a […]

American food, much like most of the people in it, originates from other lands. Unless you are a descendant of Native Americans, at some point in the past, an ancestor arrived here in one way or another.  Many arrived with just the clothes on their backs, and some arrived with even less than that against their will.   The […]

If you have been reading this series of articles for any length of time, you know that I alway bring up reading the ingredient list on any packaged food.  There is good reason for that.  Labels lie.  They mislead.  They gaslight.  They misdirect like a street magician performing a card trick.   The label on the […]

Summer is here.  I can tell because I have 2 metric tons of dust in my lungs from mowing the other day.  My electric meter is spinning like a skydiver’s altimeter when the parachute doesn’t open.  And yellowjackets are buzzing around all angry…wait…they are never not angry.  No matter, I know summer when I see […]

There are many fears in life.  Some are rational, some not so much.  Politicians seem to deal only in fear nowadays, because it’s such an easy emotion to tap into and manipulate.  I bet I could fill a book with fears I wasted time on that never happened, or ones I worried about so much that I seemed […]