As you can tell from the above photo, February where I live means snow as it is still the middle of winter. Although Mother Nature has been a bit weird lately, it was 62°F on Wednesday, and now on Friday its snowing again, this is rather typical for Eastern PA – zone 7A. But, just …
If you garden, you know the importance of pollinators. Pollinators are the bees, bugs, butterflies, and birds that help to pollinate flowers. Without pollinators we wouldn’t have any fruits nor most vegetables (things like eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers are all botanically fruits because they form from a flower). Each year, as we have added to …
Today, my daughter made jambalaya for our lunch. We’ve had it before, but she always thought it was a bit too spicy (like break out in a sweat spicy), so we looked over the recipe, made a few changes, and came up with a new recipe that is still big on flavor, but the heat …
I have never had a chance to celebrate Mardi Gras in NOLA, so my only Mardi Gras experience comes from working at Showboat Casino in Atlantic City when I was in my early twenties. The casino’s tagline was, “The Mardi Gras Casino” and from the minute you stepped on property the goal was to take you …
The hockey pucks that many restaurants and fast food chains try to pass off as biscuits give real southern buttermilk biscuits a bad name. And don’t get me started on the peel and pop variety that you get in the refrigerator case of most grocery stores. Real buttermilk biscuits are light and flaky, have many …
