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Sometime in the middle of summer, I promised to put my Bread and Butter Pickle recipe on my blog and Facebook. Here I am about 2 months later finally getting around to it. I’ve used this recipe for years and years. It’s one given to me by one of the elderly ladies who lived in…
AUGUST 2021 FREE BOOK!!!
Leave it to prize-winning food historian and poet, Ann Chandonnet, to bring together so many great recipes and fun facts in this wonderful book!! From the back cover: “Satisfy your curiosity about apple parings, bean stringings, mandolin groups and nut cracks in this enjoyable new food history crammed with facts, menus and more than 150…
June 2019 FREE BOOK!
Our FREE BOOK for June 2019 is the novel EMILY & EINSTEIN by Linda Francis Lee. If you’re a dog lover, you’ll like this book, although Einstein is the most unusual and cranky dog you’ll ever meet. From the back cover, “Emily and her husband, Sandy Portman, seemed to live a gracious if busy life…
Puppy Love/Airedale!
The Airedale is the largest of all terriers and was originally bred to hunt water otters. The breed was developed from the black-and-tan terrier and the otter hound and takes its name from the area where it originated – the River Aire region in Yorkshire, England. I’ve never had the privilege of personally knowing an…
Corsets & Lace: Fashion and Pain!
Do you know what these two items are? At the bottom is a piece of whale baleen. (Some whales have teeth, others have baleen in lieu of teeth. The plates of baleen act as a filtering system when a krill-eating whale whooshes in a mouthful of sea water and krill.) At the top of the…