Food for the soul.
Welcome to our blog! We are empty nester’s embarking on retirement in the next 5 to 10 years.
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The concept of travel is shaped by things with meaning and love.
I have a variety of hot sauces in the fridge. We are a fan of the show “Hot Ones” (not a sponsor) and one year for Christmas we decided to get all ten sauces from that season and see how…
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Since the middle of last year, Dennis and I have been delighted by creating “stacks”. Visually they are very impressive but what we have found is that you can be extremely creative in your choice of ingredients. The very first…
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This morning we were reading about Ale and stumbled across a recipe for Welsh Rabbit. After a little bit of debate about how it is pronounced (rarebit/rabbit) we looked it up and found that both were correct! On the surface…
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We decided to try making poached eggs this morning for breakfast. We don’t have any of the poaching gadgets, just planned to swirl the boiling water and drop it in. The first one wasn’t perfect, probably dropped it from a…
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New Years Eve was our “Gin” night (see New Years Eve – Goodbye 2020). Tonight we decided to explore some Rum drinks. So once again Karen took to Pinterest to find some ideas of what to try. Almost every interesting…
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Aren’t we all glad to see the end of 2020? We didn’t have any New Years Eve plans so decided to just listen to music and explore a few cocktail variations using whatever we had on hand. What shocked me…
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When Den picked up the mini bella mushrooms last week he also grabbed a few large portabellas but forgot to tell me. Tonight he said, “Let’s use these.” So I started thinking Chicken Marsala but instead settled on a spicy…
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Tonight, Karen told me she was going to make Barley. I haven’t had that before and it turns out that she had never cooked it before. In fact, I don’t think I have ever seen it on a restaurant menu…
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I had some avocados that were ripe and needed to be used. Couple that with a craving for salmon and I threw together this salad for tonight’s dinner.
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