(I’ve posted this before, but it’s at the bottom of a long fibery post and I am trying to go back and make sure all my recipes are single posts so that they are easily found and read. So, if you missed it the first time, this is one of my favorite salads!) You need [...]

Again, mostly for a co-worker of shmoo’s, but feel free to take/use/etc. 3 cups Fresh Broccoli, chopped 1 1/2 cups water 4tbs flour (mix and dissolved in 1/4 water) 2 cups milk 1-2 tbs butter 1-2 cups Grated Cheddar Cheese 1 tsp Paprika 1 tsp Garlic Powder Salt and Pepper to taste. In a big [...]

This is for shmoo’s coworkers, but the rest of you can feel free to try it too. Fry a piece or two of bacon in your pan. Get it nice and crispy. Towards the end of the frying, put around half a onion, diced into the pan as well, and let it start to brown. [...]

It’s a bit late, but I was busy cooking like a madwoman all day, and then yesterday was filled up with the Dog being sick. So I hope you all had a lovely and safe Thanksgiving.

I am not a huge coffee fan, and thus I am not sure there can ever be enough sugar or milk in coffee. To that end, my coffee ritual at work is involved and fanciful. We have a pod type coffee maker at work. I use the Costa Rican type coffee pods. I have a [...]

Is it bad that I have to reference my own blog for my holiday recipes? Wish you and yours the best of whatever you celebrate today, or just a Happy Thursday. Merry Christmas!

I haven’t been knitting that much. I’m in a bit of a lull. And it’s led to a blogging hiatus as well. So today, I share the family recipes that are the mainstays of our holiday meals. Sweet Potato Souffle Main Ingredients: 3 cups of sweet potatoes, diced. 1/3 cup of butter 1 cup sugar [...]

I have noticed that most of my search engine references are people searching for the Elk Run Sangria recipe. And then shmoo and I noticed today that they’d taken it down again. But I happen to have saved to to notepad, so I have it, and I’m going to share it. (Unless I get notified [...]

My sock pal has very narrow feet. And though I started Monkey socks, I could tell they were going to be too big. So I stalled out for a few days and then decided I would do some stranded knitting socks. I am not using a pattern, just kinda made it up as I went [...]

I took a bit of the orange/pink/yellow roving and did a sample. I didn’t like it. So I got some combs and did some blending. (My don’t those things look vicious!) And then I swatched. And now, I have a ton of blending ahead of me. It’s not that I think the orange tweedy stuff [...]