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As part of my weekly “Mom Planning” I write up a menu on a whiteboard in our kitchen. This helps with meal rotation, so something isn’t made too often; and it is a great lead in to composing my grocery list for the week.
I planted pumpkins this year. Started little seedlings in the house and they pushed up through the black soil in, tiny pots, sitting on the dining room floor by the window.
My fantasy trip, ‘Dancing Down the Mississippi’, becomes a reality in the fall of 2000.
It started as a feast of thanks for a good harvest, a feast to celebrate that harvest and it was an indigenous custom before the first European landed in the Americas. Some of the foods served still show up on holiday tables, including turkeys, squash, corn and pumpkins.
I heard a new term the other day you’ll immediately understand, even if you’ve never heard it before. The new term is “Doomscrolling”.
Usually when I see the word “pie” in a recipe name I think of dessert and my favorite, pecan pie.
The air grows crisp as the grasses scratch at bare legs. It’s time to pick seeds out of socks and find homes for all the garden tomatoes and zucchini carefully tended through the summer.
Now I want to have a conversation with all of you. “Tradition” and “Traditions” are different. Almost every family has “Traditions.” Thanksgiving, for example, is probably one of the biggest and well-known traditions.
