Great Grandmother's Kitchen

As the aliens eyed the seating arrangements with suspicion...all hope of the embassy dinner's success evaporated.

 I don't think there is an adult middle-class American woman alive who doesn't have an opinion about Martha Stewart.

I usually talk about very women-oriented stuff on here...today is an exception.

One of my favorite sites these days is The Art of Manliness.   No, it's not geared towards me, by any stretch of the imagination.  Instead, this site generates a feeling that is the online equivalent of the now extinct Men's Lodge,

Image compliments of Eutopos Farm Website

I first noticed huckleberry syrups, jams, and treats during a trip to the Museum of Idaho shortly after we moved up here.  Hmm...looks good, but what's a huckleberry?  Like Huckleberry Finn?

Yep...I know...it's a couple of months still.  But it's one of my favorite holidays, so it's going up early.

Thanks to Scrappin' Blogs for providing such awesome backgrounds totally free! 

This great list showed up on CNN's Food Blog, Eatocracy yesterday, in an interview with Chef Russell Moore.  I thought these were great examples of not only using everything, but eating cheaper and tastier!

This will most likely be a slow journey, but one that I'd like to update on as I go.  Since reading A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove, back in July, I've been spending a lot of time thinking about my own culinary heritage. 

If you haven't seen this site, it's pretty awesome. I believe that the original owner no longer runs it, having been overtaken by the Cheez Burger Blog Conglomerate, however, it's daily edible eye candy of the highest order.