Jennifer MorriseyI wrote this article in the summer of 2013, but because watching It’s a Wonderful Life is part of our Christmas tradition and with the upcoming 68th Anniversary Festival of It’s a Wonderful Life in Seneca Falls next week I wanted to...
I did it. We actually got away on a vacation this summer. After all the calves have been born, and first cutting of hay was tucked away into the barns, but before corn picking and weekend farmers markets. We dug the boat out of a barn, packed an...
I love when the garden explodes with zucchini and summer squash. There is always more than we could ever use fresh, and I have not had a lot of luck freezing summer squash, so I like to prepare it into breads that freeze beautifully and pop those...
Sweet, tangy and sparkling, Strawberry Lemonade is the perfect drink to help you ease into summer.
I am going to be honest with you, I love cucumbers, but really could not care less about pickles. Somewhere between cucumber and pickle the whole thing just takes a wrong turn for me. What was once crunchy, juicy and fresh ends up suspended in a...
This summer I have started going to the farmers market with my mother in law, or more accurately I go to I relieve my husband who goes first thing in the morning. Don’t worry I am not sitting at home enjoying Saturday morning cartoons while...
I have learned something about myself this summer: I don’t do the summer months well. I am not sure if it has to do with age, as I am creeping up to the halfway point of my 30’s, or if this summer has just been extra unbearable, but I do...
I love zucchini when it first becomes available, there is usually such and abundance I take full advantage of the veggie surplus by sneaking it into as many baked goods as I can. I think good old fashioned zucchini bread is great, but usually after...
It seems odd starting a story about a recipe in the dentists office, but the that is exactly where my Strawberry Trifle recipe came from. Last week I had to make a trip to my dentist’s office for a cracked filling that was bothering me. When...
I have a little secret, I am pretty competitive. I enjoy entering competitions, especially if there is baking involved. I love participating in the local County Fair Open Class domestics, and I have done pretty well, but the “Best of Fair”...
“Brother bought a coconut He bought it for a dime. His sister had another She paid it for the lime.” ~Coconut by Harry Nilsson Is it even seriously possible to think about Coconut and Lime without thinking of the song Coconut? Lime and...
We live on a farm, which is nice in a lot of aspects, but come September when the kids go back to school, and they realize all their friends went of vacations and actually did stuff over summer break I feel like I have dropped the ball, when their...
