I love learning new little tips and tricks that make life easier. Here are 6 hacks for the kitchen that are favorites of mine. I’m sure I’m not alone on this one. I purchase a special herb for a recipe, then end up throwing out what’s left-over...
One of our favorite summer side dishes is a serving of crisp and cool pickled cucumbers and onions. This is a quick and easy dish to create and a great way to use up the cucumbers that grow too large to use for canning pickles. And it’s a refreshing change from sliced...
What’s Your Favorite Homemade Soup? If I had to choose an all-time favorite soup from my childhood it would be homemade cream of potato soup. No one could make it like my Grandma, and whenever I visited, I would request it. And if I was home from school...
When I was a youngster, I read a folktale called Stone Soup. I was so impressed with the cleverness of this story I never forgot it. It’s the tale of a tired and hungry traveler, who enters a small village with nothing but an empty cooking pot and a stone. He sits up...
What does Made From Scratch Mean? When I was learning to cook, we used fresh ingredients and combined them to make the dishes we were going to serve. Pre-packaged meals and mixes were just becoming popular as time-savers, but were still expensive. You may remember the...
We have a New Year’s Day tradition, as most of you do, of fixing a special meal to make sure we have good luck for the year. Our traditional dish is homemade Hoppin’ John’s Black-eyed Peas and Cornbread. We have a side of sauerkraut (for the cabbage part) – just for...
About Indy
Being outside in nature is the most basic part of who I am. Besides gaining knowledge about wildlife, I learn lessons about who I am, and surprise myself about what I am capable of achieving. Nature continually inspires me. It is a part of all my writings, no matter the genre or subject matter.
Being outside in nature is the most basic part of who I am. Besides gaining knowledge about wildlife, I learn lessons about who I am, and surprise myself about what I am capable of achieving. Nature continually inspires me. It is a part of all my writings, no matter the genre or subject matter. 
