by Toni | Dec 18, 2022 | Come Home, Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
There are many ways to make shepherd’s pie, most of them quite humble since this was originally a peasant dish, not an aristocratic one. Traditional recipes use lamb (which I am doing here) and a white potato mash for topping. Yep…meat and potatoes, that’s about...
by Toni | Mar 18, 2021 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
The Spring season always awakens our tastebuds for those fresh, earthy, cool-weather greens and roots that are the first to emerge from the garden. We dive into kale and leaf lettuces, spring onions, peas and maybe some early varieties of turnips. After winter, the...
by Toni | Nov 27, 2019 | Come Home, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
My college years were less than traditional. I was the mother of a teenager, for one thing. My household consisted of a husband, daughter, grandmother (in her 90s), a cat, a dog and two rabbits. I was busy. Stressed. Short on time, long on homework, and writing my...
by Toni | Aug 29, 2019 | Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
One of the most important things to note about women is their innate sense of community and sharing, in my opinion. If we were all more about community, sharing and caring, wouldn’t we be better off? One of my biggest takeaways from gender studies classes in college...
by Toni | Feb 27, 2019 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
Chocolate is so overdone when it comes to romance, don’t you think? Well, okay, maybe not. But this Valentine’s Day I was looking for something just a little “out there.” A surprise for my sweetie with all his manly favorites—cheddar cheese, bacon and sugar. I know...
by Toni | Feb 27, 2019 | Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
Well, I was putting my monthly recipe of bone broth into the slow cooker near the first of the month when I noticed a sort of tired look on my husband’s face. “What now?” I asked. “I thought bone broth was one of your favorites.” “It’s okay,” he said, semi-whiny....
