Do you ever get tired of making breakfast? I sure do. I have 35 minutes every weekday to get something made for 9 people so I can send half of them out the door with a full stomach. Breakfast can’t be very fancy in that amount of time, and I have a couple of picky …

Jessica made a run to town this morning so she’s not around to post her entry for the Friday Recipe. (She had to go to Costco so the checkout guy could look at her haul and smirk “Stockin’ up for the end of the world?” Correct answer: “We have a big family and we live …

Well, a couple of months back Jess and I were driving into town, admiring the elderberry bushes heavily laden with the tiny light-blue berries. Next time we were out together we threw a pair of kitchen shears and a couple of smallish boxes in the back of the Jeep. We drove along a back road …

Jessica wrote today’s post. Her soups are some of my favorite foods, no matter what kind they are. She knows what I like. I am a recipe fanatic. I will admit it. I love recipe books. I clip the recipes I like out of every magazine I legally can. I ask for recipes from those …

Abby Long’s Homemade Twix Bars Crust: 2 cubes butter, softened 1/2 cup sugar 2 cups flour To make crust, cream butter and sugar. Add flour. Knead (or mix) and pat into a jellyroll pan (deep cookie sheet). Bake at 350 for 15-20 min., or until golden brown. Let cool. Filling: 2 cubes butter 1/4 cup …

Jessica made both of these last night. For the cinnamon bread she rolled the dough from this recipe out flat, smeared it with butter and a generous sprinkling of cinnamon, rolled it up again, and plopped it in the pan. We had it toasted for breakfast this morning, along with our homemade apple oatmeal. Next …

I think last Friday I failed to mention that every Friday I would be posting one of Jessica’s recipes. I asked her to send one today, and she wrote a whole blog post! So without further ado, may I introduce my very very very special guest writer, Jessica The Magnificent: Here is the promised recipe …

I went for the camera the other evening as the sun set behind our mountains. Here you see Wanderer’s Peak with the season’s first snow, shot from our front window with reflected lamplight. You can see the shadows of the range at our back falling across the mountains at our front, and you get a …

Well, I just can’t quit blabbing about how great it is to make your own food. Here is supper from the other night. The bread is my homemade wheat bread, toasted and slathered with butter.* The water’s from our well, which at 705 feet deep had BETTER be producing clean water (the county has tested …

I made whole wheat bread on Sunday and gave away half of it to my home teaching families, so before Family Home Evening last night I made another batch. It only takes about fifteen minutes, aside from rising and baking. I started out with the Betty Cracker recipe but all those folks seem to think …