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  • Peach Vinegar

    Peach Vinegar

    My reading lately has been made up of things like This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, In the French Kitchen Garden: The Joys of Cultivating a Potager , and Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California . To top all that…

  • Indian Blood Peach Pie

    Indian Blood Peach Pie

    My youngest asked yesterday if we could have a “nice Sunday dinner.” I have gone back and forth on this. I like the idea of ending the weekend and starting the week out with a nice dinner. I went through a period of eating in the formal dining room, setting a more formal table, and…

  • Flank Steak Marinade with Worcestershire Sauce and Garlic

    Flank Steak Marinade with Worcestershire Sauce and Garlic

    I had another family over for dinner tonight. It was one of those fairly spontaneous things that works out to be perfect! Sometimes, we try to line up dinner and we end up months out and then someone gets sick or something else comes up and we need to postpone and reschedule. My friend had…

  • Pork Roast with Cranberry Sauce in the Crockpot

    Pork Roast with Cranberry Sauce in the Crockpot

    I had originally planned to do this delicious sounding recipe with a pork roast studded with 40 cloves of garlic or somesuch, then roasted in the oven with a few things. But life got in the way. I had errands to run one evening after work and didn’t get started soon enough. The next night…

  • Grandma Alice’s Baked Chicken and Rice

    Grandma Alice’s Baked Chicken and Rice

    Grandma Alice’s Baked Chicken is one of the few recipes I have that’s been handed down. My mom had this on a newspaper clipping I think, that she’d gotten from my dad’s mom. It’s so simple and yet so good! Sprinkle some garlic salt on bone-in chicken pieces, press them into some seasoned flour, then…