
Whistlestop End to the Garden
After planting all the garlic and strawberries this weekend, I kept looking at the peppers and tomatoes. I don't have the heart to pull...


Chipotle Chicken at Home
I had so been looking forward to SPRING BREAK ... And suddenly, we are coronavirus closed for three weeks. No students for three weeks....


Christmas in March
Exhausted from a long hockey season and two weeks of non-stop grading, I just packed up the car and headed to the farm for spring break....


Cold Snap Split Pea Soup
Not sure why this recipe isn't on the blog yet. I fell in love with Laura Calder and all her French recipes on "French Food at Home." An...


Butternut Squash Soup Revisited
"I'm so glad that I live in a world where there are Octobers." ~ L.M. Montgomery Just returned from Houston to watch my Yankees lose the...


Kitty's Squash Casserole
There might be a protest if we all arrived to Thanksgiving or Christmas at the farm, and there wasn’t Kitty’s Squash Casserole. Kitty was...


BBQ Potato Salad
This is another Vail Fourth of July recipe. Appropriate that I found it in a series of cookbooks that Ryan and Jenn gave me for Christmas...


Cous Cous Salad
Brenna Tally lived next door to me in Vaughan 2 during my freshman year at Vanderbilt. With her birthday so close to Christmas, it was...


Secret to Turkey Burgers
Ryan and Casey called me over to try these one Sunday, and I couldn’t believe it. This was not the best turkey burger I had ever had; it...


Steak Sandwiches
Robert and I had a favorite take-out restaurant just across the way from Erol’s. Dad would let each of us choose our Betamax movie, then...