How Would You Like Your Eggs on Sunday Morning?

Sunday mornings with a newspaper and a cup of tea. Doesn’t get any better. Now that the warm weather is here that means breakfast outside on the patio. As lovely as the morning breeze is, it can make reading the newspaper tricky. The reason we love to use eggs in our kitchen is because they are … Continue reading

getting started with an herb garden

Your ingredients work together to create a finished dish that you follow in a recipe or create yourself. The freshest ingredients you can find make any finished product taste better. Fresh herbs can make the whole dish really sing. Maybe you want to get started and create your own herb garden. Don’t know where to begin? Read … Continue reading

easter eggs benedict

Last year’s Easter brunch seems to have created a new tradition for us. The Monday morning after Easter Sunday means hosting a dinner and getting kids up for school the next morning. That’s why we decided on a brunch last Easter. Even though the overlap of Passover and Easter this school year meant we were off  … Continue reading

new york state test breakfast and dinner menu

People have their own personal signs of when spring has arrived. Baseball. Flowers. Our daffodils are brightening the day along with tiny purple crocuses. Inside, the hibiscus tree is beginning to bloom. The day we spotted the first bud meant the tree that sat in a sunny corner in the den, was getting ready to start the … Continue reading

a devil of an egg

Some friends were talking about the deviled eggs they ate at a party. They didn’t care for them. The reason? There were pickles mixed in with the yolks. A deviled egg with pickles, is not the deviled egg they knew, and they weren’t interested in a new version. The deviled egg starts with a hard-boiled … Continue reading

corn chowder calling

What word comes to mind when you think of corn? A good ear of corn is naturally sweet. As we’ve said here before, boiling corn pulls the corn flavor into the boiling water. The corn gets drained in a colander. Now, the water and all that flavor gets washed down the drain. Do yourself a favor and always … Continue reading

everything’s better with butter

Some friends were sharing how they drive some distance to a big box store for an item they love. What were they making this trip for? A specialty butter. One liked a butter with herbs. The other woman liked a sweet version her kids love on pancakes. They were also spending an unbeleivable amount of money for this butter … Continue reading

paas – itively delicious easter brunch

There’s the dining room table. It tends to get buried under a blizzard of school notices that come home in backpacks. Really buried. We decided that brunch worked well for everyone for Easter. We would go with Eggs Benedict with the “Holidays” sauce. You read the last post, right? As I said before, I was hoping my … Continue reading