Weekends in the Kitchen and Beyond
Spring is here and the backyard birds are out and about searching for materials for their nests. It’s easiest to catch them now on camera before the trees are full of leaves. Above is the elegant and sweet morning dove. Last year, a cute pair made a nest in the cupola of our gazebo. They […]
To make a lemon layer cake special, lemon curd spread in between the layers as a filling or mixed into the frosting will do wonders. It is a lemon, butter, sugar, and egg combination that is cooked until thickened, just like a custard. Lemon curd comes to us from British cuisine, dating back to somewhere […]
My daughter requested chicken fajitas for her birthday dinner, and so I scrambled. The last time I made fajitas–steak fajitas for my son’s birthday dinner–I made a marinade for the beef that didn’t quite hit the mark (no lime or cumin!). Let’s just say the dish didn’t taste like beef fajitas. This time, I didn’t […]
It’s that time of year when Mr. and Mrs. Fox make their home under our shed. When it gets warmer, we hope to see some kits scurrying around the yard like last year. Foxes are a joy to watch! When the snow falls, they come out to play like little kids.They like to find a […]
A while back, I shared my family’s Polish plain honey cake recipe. It’s a delicious yet simple honey cake that I serve each year for Christmas and New Year’s. It seems to be atypical as far as honey cake recipes go because there are no spices added to it. More recently, I’ve found that a […]