Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing

I so enjoy chatting with Matt Swaim on the Sonrise Morning Show/Sacred Heart Radio. Today we talked about mustard! Yes, there’s a passage about mustard in the Bible. MUSTARD We’re all familiar with:  “The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed….Matthew 13:31“… Yes, the Romans  made the first “mustard” by grinding the seeds into a paste and  the Greeks used in both medicinally and … Continue reading Spinach Salad with Warm Bacon Dressing

Best Pantry Pasta Sauce

You’ve heard me say before that it doesn’t take much to please me. Like watching our neighbor, Josh, spread a layer of “black gold”/aged horse manure on our tilled vegetable gardens. Ready for planting! Coinciding with prepping the gardens is a spring inventory of the pantry staples in my heirloom pie safe. Enough air circulates through the punched tin door panels to keep jars of preserved … Continue reading Best Pantry Pasta Sauce

Homemade Pizza

Last week I found myself mesmerized at the overwhelming variety of pizzas in the frozen pizza aisle at the grocery. From thin crust to thick, classic pepperoni to spinach artichoke, and everything in between.  That’s when I decided to share recipes for an easy, homemade pizza sauce and fool-proof dough.They use wholesome, customizable ingredients and take a whole lot less freezer space than boxed pizzas. … Continue reading Homemade Pizza

Stromboli/Savory Pinwheels

Regardless of what you call it, Stromboli or pinwheels, layering pizza dough with cheeses and meats if you like along with herbs and greens is what we call supper. And an easy one, too, since you can make your own pizza dough or purchase it. Today Matt Swaim and I chatted on the Sonrise Morning Show/Sacred Heart Radio, about cheese. Yes, cheese was an important … Continue reading Stromboli/Savory Pinwheels

Spiced Chickpea Stew with Coconut Milk and Turmeric

Here on my little patch of heaven Mother Nature can be fickle, but she does allow some consistent harbingers of spring. Like wild yellow aconite blooming, blanketing the hill down to the East Fork river alongside our home. Many years ago the first few seeds were flung at the top by dear friend Ike Leaf, of blessed memory. “The flowers will spread down the hill“, … Continue reading Spiced Chickpea Stew with Coconut Milk and Turmeric

No-Knead Gluten-Free Bread

No-Knead Gluten-Free Bread If you can’t have dairy or gluten, try this easy No Knead Gluten-Free Bread. This bread is fluffy on the inside and crispy on the outside. This is what all gluten-free bread dreams are made of. Even if you are not gluten-free. Thanks much to: Author: The Modern Nonna Ingredients Activate The Yeast Dry Ingredients Instructions Continue reading No-Knead Gluten-Free Bread

Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday

I love talking to Matt Swaim today on the Sonrise Morning Show/Sacred Heart Radio. Each week we talk about Bible foods and herbs, and with Lent coming up, the subject was Pancakes!! The Shrove Tuesday tradition in England was that Christians went to confession and were “shriven”  – which means absolved from their sins.  in the villages A bell would be rung to call people to … Continue reading Pancakes for Shrove Tuesday

New Fangled, Old Fashioned Oat Meal Cookies

I don’t need a thermometer to know the weather is in bone chilling single digits. A glance at the East Fork of the Little Miami river from my kitchen window tells it all. Still flowing, but very slow, with both sides of shore frozen.  The extreme cold snap across our nation this week has most of us nesting indoors.  I’m fine with that, since it … Continue reading New Fangled, Old Fashioned Oat Meal Cookies

Creamy Cannellini Bean One Skillet Meal with Cashew Cream

Have you heard of cashew cream?  Interest in plant-based recipes is growing and that’s where cashew cream comes into play. In its simplest state, cashew cream consists of soaking, then blending, “raw” cashews with water for a creamy, vegan alternative to heavy cream. It can stand in for coconut milk, as well.  Cashew cream subs in for whipping cream in this recipe for creamy Italian … Continue reading Creamy Cannellini Bean One Skillet Meal with Cashew Cream