Food and Recipes

blueberry bumper crop

Blueberry Bumper Crop

One of my favorite things about Big Creek is Madre’s enormous blueberry patch.  Sure, the bushes only produce for a handful of weeks in the year, but those are some delicious, glorious weeks!  This year Madre has a blueberry bumper crop, picking almost a gallon of plump, ripe blueberries every day…because you have to stop […]

Chipotle Lime Steak | Cinco de Mayo

  One of my favorite holidays is Cinco de Mayo, and I’ll admit shamelessly that it’s all for the food. This year for our Cinco de Mayo feast, the star of the show will be this Chipotle Lime Steak for tacos or burritos. I concocted it for a trial run this weekend, and it was […]

Rosemary Garlic Citrus Pork Loin

I love to find a pork loin roast on sale.  It’s like hitting the jackpot!  I like the little tenderloins, too, that usually come in pairs, but the pork loin roast is probably my favorite cut of pork.  The pork loin is lean, tender, and always feeds my family twice! I conjured up this Rosemary […]

A French Toast To The Weekend

Our weekend started a little early, due to unfortunate weather conditions in much of the area on Thursday night. There were severe thunderstorms, some localized flooding, and possibly even some funnel clouds.  We got a call at 10:30 Thursday night informing us that there would be no school on Friday. So, I’m making a very […]

BBQ Gulf Shrimp

Here’s a little story about BBQ Gulf Shrimp that will make you jealous. Our next door neighbors went to the Gulf of Mexico over spring break.  I don’t even know where they went, whether it was Florida or L.A. (Lower Alabama), but when they came back home, they brought us some beautiful, plump gulf shrimp! […]

Asian Chicken Pasta Salad

If you’re excited that Spring is finally here, raise your hand!  Yes, mine is up in the air, flapping like a kid who knows the answer to the question for the first time all year!  As usually happens around here, the first day of Spring brought the coldest temperatures we’ve had in a few weeks, […]