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Going Back to Work!

22 months of washing dishes is enough. I’ll still be cooking, but not between 10:00am and 2:00pm. Here is the press release that M106.3 WGLM put...

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Is Your Pantry Ready For Winter?

This is a lesson I learned the hard way. Twice! (I’ll explain at the bottom) We are just now experiencing our “First Big Snow” here in Michigan. I...

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A Great Gift From a Friend

I mentioned in a previous post that it was somewhat heartbreaking to say goodbye to summer. The reason for that was, I had nothing look forward to....

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She’s Gone

It seems so strange to look out the window and see nothing tied to the dock. It is always a melancholy day when the guys from Nelson’s Speed Shop...

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Snowed IN

There is not much chance of that on the immediate horizon but all of our local meteorologists are pretty excited about our first snow, which is predicted for this weekend. The first snow of the season is always interesting because it seems like most people have...

Chicken in Hunter Sauce

This dish is a French classic. "Chicken Chasseur" which literally means “Hunter’s Chicken” combines chicken with mushrooms in a tomato-white wine sauce and comes from a time when wild game birds were plentiful and combined with wild mushrooms from the forest.The...

Beef Stroganoff

Beef Stroganoff 1 ½ lbs beef tenderloin (use stew meat or cubed sirloin if you prefer)Olive oil & butter3 tbs eachOnionMushroomsGarlicBeef stock or consumme’3 tbs flourTomato pasteHeavy creamEgg noodlesThyme This was originally a Russian dish using mustard. You can...

A Wonderful Discovery

We found an apartment to live in while we build our little place up north. I can’t wait to start cooking. There’s just one problem. The tiny one butt galley kitchen in our rental is full of cardboard boxes and I don’t have a clue where anything is.I guess there are...