It is chili season. No doubt about it. Just this last weekend, while in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, at my family—the Ensminger family –reunion, we enjoyed chili while the wind howled and snow accumulated on the slopes. [Read more…]
My mother and grandmother made all things apple. Pans of applesauce simmered while apple pie, Dutch apple cake and applesauce cake baked. The fall just isn’t fall for me unless there are apples cooking and the kitchen is filled with the aromas of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. [Read more…]
Lunch! Just the mention conjures up all kinds of emotions. Always on the look out for new lunch solutions, I was thrilled when I found the Beauty of the Bistro food truck and discovered a solution to most of my Wednesday lunches. Its the perfect anecdote for hump day. Read all about this perfect lunch spot at the blog I wrote for the Kansas City Star’s Kansas City Chow Town site here.
Ok, that solves the Wednesday dilemma but what about the other 6 days? I am oh-so-lucky that my spouse joins me many weekdays for lunch and my daughter attends a university model high school, so she is home for lunch 2 weekdays. [Read more…]
It happens every year around this time. It seems I have just gotten my groove on when it comes to visiting local farmer’s markets and enjoying the bountiful produce. When I have finally gotten my routine down to an art, the calendar days slip away and I soon realize my farmer’s market days are numbered. And, I do the exact same thing every year. I go to the market, per my routine, but all of a sudden, as I feel the hands of time ticking away, I begin to purchase gargantuan amounts of produce. [Read more…]
Someday soon it will be fall. Today, we are baking in more of summer’s heat, but the calendar says it is nearly the middle of September. So which is it — summer or fall? Brats are one of those foods that make a tasty transition from summer’s sizzling heat to a fall tailgate party. [Read more…]
