recipes

When we went under contract for the purchase of our house last year, my husband and I fantasized about all the fruit trees, flowers and vegetables we could plant and harvest. Fast forward to one growing season, multiple soil tests, countless tilling, and forever mulching later only to discover all that we wanted to plant won’t grow in our dirt. Insert face palm here. Gone are the dreams of cherries, peaches, plums and peonies. When we went under contract for the purchase of our house last year, my husband and I fantasized about all the fruit trees, flowers and vegetables we could plant and harvest. Fast forward to one growing season, multiple soil tests, countless tilling, and forever mulching later only to discover all that we wanted to plant won’t grow in our dirt. Insert face palm here. Gone are the dreams of cherries, peaches, plums and peonies.

As many of our readers know, I grew up in Tennessee with all the culinary goodness of southern food and a fondness for BBQ. When I discovered that we have an Alabama BBQ sauce company in Spokane, I knew I was in for a homespun treat!

We have finally moved into some cooler weather, days are getting shorter, and we had a little bit of rainfall.

Before we were married, one of my husband and my favorite date night activities was picking up a to-go order from the Thai restaurant down the street and watching old episodes of the Rockford Files.