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Hearty Hamburger Stew
Confession time...I've been doing a lousy job of remembering to photograph meals for the past 2 months. Blame it on Camp Dorothy frivolity in December. Blame it on the holidays. Blame it on being distracted by house guests. But wherever the blame may fall, recent food...
Top 10 Reasons to Be Glad Downton Abbey Is Back
10. The premiere of Downton Abbey, Season 5, is a good excuse to binge watch Seasons 1–4...just in case any crucial details were missed during previous viewings. 9. Binge watching Seasons 1–4 makes the dead of winter go by faster. 8. Seeing all the Downton Abbey...
Two Moments
In the past 7 days, I helped Mom move into assisted living on Monday, traveled to Wisconsin on Tuesday to help out with the our 2-year-old grandson and brand new granddaughter until Saturday, and joined our church Connection Group on Sunday afternoon to make 32 pans...
Slow Cooker Pork and Veggies
For most of December and January, I made double batches of slow cooker meals for supper a couple times a week. The Man of Steel and I ate half the food and the other half went into the freezer for later transport to my son and daughter-in-law, who have a new baby this...
Gravel Road’s Top Ten Comfort Food Recipes
Oh my, the weather outside has been frightful...as it should be in January in Iowa. Winter's not my favorite season by any measure. But cooking comfort food make winter much easier to bear. This post takes a trip through the Gravel Road's recipe file to compile this...
All Good Things Must Come to an End
Scholars attribute the saying "All good things must come to an end" to Chaucer, whose end came a long time ago. Other scholars believe the saying was around long before Chaucer. Whoever first spoke or penned those words, I don't much like them right now. Because those...