While planning this tasty twist on the grilled cheese sandwich, I discovered something handy at my local Kroger. The sandwich called for sharp cheddar and gouda. When I think "gouda," I think wheelbarrow-sized hunk of cheese wrapped in red rind. In my quiet little house, we'd never finish that up. You have to outrace the decay to which cheese is prone. We can't [...]
Fast Sunday. It’s probably not in the spirit of things to stuff ourselves once the fasting is over. But, to our credit, we feasted with half dozen fruits in this Glazed Fruit Bowl. And we added just as many vegetables to the Brunch Strata. (We won’t mention that it also called for cream and cheese and cream cheese.) We even ate fruit in the [...]
Do you think you will meet your long-gone pets after you die? Do you hope you will? I do, at least in the case of Trouble. He was an orange tuxedo cat, handsome as a movie star, loving as a baby, tolerant beyond belief of children who wouldn’t stop carrying him around like a sack of flour. In the case of Butterscotch, not so much. [...]
