Pizza is a standard at our house - Saturday night dinners alternate between spaghetti and pizza. Everyone likes them both, and it seems to b...

Each year, I try out a few new "homesteading" skills. Mostly just to see how it goes, learn something new, and stash any knowledge...

My sweet friend Marcie is "afraid of soup." Her words. I keep trying to imagine this chilly fall weather without the warmth of sou...

It's no secret that I am a Pie Making Failure. There are a lot of domestic, housewife-y things I do a good job of, but making pies has n...

This week's recipe comes (again) from the Food Matters Cookbook . I'm starting to feel a little Julie & Julia-esque, except that...

My family has been eating muffins that resemble the consistency of cardboard for three years now, since I first started realizing whole whea...

Tonight's dinner: wild Nebraska pheasant (procured on our recent trip to the miserable, flat prairie-land of Nebraska) with wild rice an...

Two goose posts in two days... There have been two whole snow geese in my freezer since March. For eight months, I've feared preparing a...

Well, big game hunting seasons are all over for us now, and no elk. Or bear. Thankfully, he brought home a doe one evening, so there is 40 p...

Hey, look at that - I'm actually posting when I'm supposed to be! This is the last week to enter the Garden to Table Challenge. Priz...

I failed kind of miserably this week on this challenge. Cut me some slack, though - we were on a trip out of town for half of the week and I...

I was going to post a quick little blog with pictures from our recent afternoon spent decorating pumpkin-shaped sugar cookies with a new ici...

I've started a new "diet" or sorts - just temporarily, to try to clear up a few health issues. Anyway, it's a diet that in...

It's been a weird summer. No one's tomatoes are ripening yet, and I've only had a few compared to what I'm normally harvest...

Wendy over at Greenish Thumb posted a challenge that sounds like fun, so I'm jumping in since the Kinder Gardens challenge is over. (To...

I fell off the "wholesome" bandwagon in a big, big way today. Between missing my husband and trying to accept the distinct reality...

My in-laws are health nuts. That is to say, if you think I'm health-conscious, you ain't see nothin'. Having them over for a bar...

I'm mostly just "thinking" out loud here. Expect some rambling. Feel free to skip this one. I put up five more little baggies ...

I've been procrastinating. It's been strawberry season for a couple weeks now, and until today, I hadn't canned the jam our fami...

"Honey, what's the orange stuff on the counter?" "It's carrots," I say, as if it wasn't obvious. "Why a...