I had managed to harvest 8 cabbages and a few pumpkins from my garden before a hard freeze hit. By “harvest,” I mean I piled them in the garage and hoped the freeze wouldn’t be low enough or long enough to damage more than a few layers of green. When the cold temperatures continued, I […]
Chef Betharoni’s Fresh Garden Carrot Cake
During the week, I make sandwiches at work. During the weekend, I come home and want to bake cake. Fortunately, those around me are frequently willing to indulge me and eat cake. Since it’s harvest season, and my sister requested a pinnable recipe for my version of carrot cake, that is how I most recently […]
Slicing for Pickles is Faster with a Mandoline
I had my traditional knife and cutting board set up at the counter to slice my cucumbers to make pickles, when my professional chef daughter breezed in the door arriving home from work. As she passed me, she said in a friendly, but firm manner, “Mandoline. I’ll be right back.” She has, in the past, been […]
Perfect Homemade Chocolate Milk from Scratch
I have often looked longingly at the gallons of chocolate milk in the grocery store, but I have never purchased it. Partly, I was sure it would be too sweet. I have always been disappointed in the syrupy taste of chocolate milk made at home from syrup, or the fake chocolate taste in […]
Rich Wants to Know How I Make Beef Lentil Stew
Rich, it all started with me raiding my dad’s freezer. With his supervision, of course. He had a 3 pound package of beef, already cubed for stew into about one inch pieces. It is important to note that while it may have said “stew meat,” it was definitely high quality, because it was tender and […]