Mother's Kitchen

  The guys have gone to deer camp, so my sister came up to visit me at the lakehouse.   The rain we've been getting has turned to snow f...

I have been keeping this blog since January 16, 2006.   My first blog post, which I thoughtfully entitled Scottish Food , totally reflec...

This weekend, I created lunch for about 80 women at my church's "Growing in God" retreat, which I enjoy doing every year. ...

What to do with the leftovers after the holiday? Every Thanksgiving, I have a ritual.   When we are cleaning up, I put the carcass of th...

Another wonderful week in the Copper Country is coming to an end for us.   I love it here so much!  I can't wait to live here year r...

Will a lentil soup change your life?   I think this one will... I knew it was a winner when I made it late on a Sunday after a pre-Ch...

Check out the history of the D.W. Ferry Seed Company  I made a great soup the other day, said my husband who doesn't like a) so...

My son found a huge chicken of the woods mushroom near our lakehouse in the Keweenaw, right before MTU Family Weekend, when we came u...

My husband has caught the cold that I had; being a veteran of this 3 week illness, I know he's got some hard time to do.   So I want...

Frequent readers of this blog will know that I spent 7 of the best years of my life attending Michigan Tech for undergrad and graduate schoo...

My nest is now empty...my youngest has moved into his dorm and now I have all the spare time in the world to try out recipes.  Just kidding,...

It's that time of year again....I have too many tomatoes, too much basil , green peppers, etc.   We seem to be eating BLTs all the time....

I don't eat at Olive Garden very often; I try to never eat at chain restaurants unless I have to do so.  I travel occasionally for w...

In my effort to preserve recipes from favorite Michigan restaurants, I'm posting a couple from one of Ann Arbor's favorites, the...

There is a lunch counter in Kerrytown in Ann Arbor that is known the unofficial cafeteria of nearby Community High .   It serves an eclec...

In Warren, Michigan, where I grew up in the 1970s, you were either Polish or Italian.   It was so cool to be Italian - all the popular kids...

Pinterest has been such a blessing to me - I can pin recipes I think I want to try....and yesterday, I saw this one  that my friend Kat...

  This week, I could definitely feel the seasons turn.  It seems like overnight, my tomato plants started to look past their prime, a...

I have been a longtime fan of Christopher Kimball.   I always liked when he was a part of " Turkey Confidential " with Lynn Rosett...

Hospice care...it's not what I thought it would be.  I thought it would be that they would send a nurse to sit with my mother and the...