The crash and boom of thunderstorms have me enjoying this ever so slight chill in the air on this late summer afternoon. I feel blessed that this humid summer’s day led to a rainy afternoon and that has me craving something hot, spicy and wrapped in bacon; Like Jalapeno Poppers. A Curried Eggplant Tamarind Stew would …
I find food with pumpkin in it this scary. As someone who really can’t stand pumpkin pie or pumpkin spice anything I sure do love to grow pumpkins in my garden. Watching my baby pumpkin plants slowly emerge from the soil in our front yard brings me all kinds of autumn joy. When I …
Once upon a time, I was very fat. I was also very disabled and spent basically 8 months of 2015 sitting on my front porch hugging an emotional support border collie with crazy eyes and crying because I was in so much pain I could barely walk to the toilet. Also, my employer of 15 …
I love all the smells of fall. Autumn days mean breathing in the scents of cinnamon, cardamon and fresh leaves under my hiking boots. And then I drive home to our cabin full of farting pets. I love the scent of those cinnamon pinecones, cloves and orange essential oils. What I don’t love is all …
Jeremy Clarkson made me do it. This week thanks to that good old British journalist I learned a lot about sheeping, got a big hankering for shepherd’s pie and then I had a hands-on sheep experience at over eight thousand feet. No, it had nothing to do with the sweetbreads found on Jeremy Clarkson’s Farm …