The Cook is in the Building

What's the Dill?

My husband and I recently stopped by a local farm/grocery mart to get some fresh green beans.  You see the rabbits ate ours before they could get up enough to produce.  They just loved the little shoots as they would pop up out of the ground.  Everything else wasn't bothered that much.  Anyway, after we got the green beans, I noticed fresh bunches of dill.  Nostalgia took over.  I remember that wonderful "Dilly Bread" we had at a distant relatives house in Kansas.  We were really in the country and had gathered eggs, harvested dill and watched grandma churn fresh butter which we slathered on the bread after it baked.  It was so good I had to buy some.  Once I got home, I started searching for the dill bread recipe, but couldn't find it.  I found a couple of others and adapted them to my liking.  I am including a link to my website for you to see the recipe.  It is http://www.homecookingcentral.com/dillbread.html

The first harvest

Wow!  We have picked our first things from this years garden.  I'm not used to getting out there and planting seeds when it's still cold and yuckey, but I must conciede that these are the rewards.  Aren't they beautiful.  There is nothing like fresh veggies from the garden.

Great new dish

My sister came up with a new dish, Cauliflower Confetti, which she gave out on our teleseminar last Thursday.  Since we usually eat dinner with the neighbors when we go down to Lonnie's house, I decided I'd take all the ingredients along and make it once I got down there.  I wasn't confident that everybody would like raw cauliflower, so I substituted cole slaw.  As it turned out everyone I asked said that yes, indeed, they did like cauliflower and the only two that didn't like cauliflower didn't eat any of the coleslaw either.  It's all irrelevant because it was very good either way.

I must explain this caricature of me.  It  was done at a Soul Food Cook off that Jean and I went to.  There were booths with samples of food and the attendees voted on a peoples choice winner.  Back behind the booth tables was a girl doing caricatures so we decided to give it a whirl.  It's always interesting to see how other people see you.  We decided to use the caricatures so you would know who is writing.  Here's hers.  Look at the About me page to see what we really look like 

Spring has Sprung

Well, things are finally turning green outside and it's time to start thinking about flowers and pretty spring dresses and WIND and spring cleaning (when the wind blows like it has been, you have to at least think about cleaning) and lovely salads and dinner parties.  Spring always feels like a new beginning.  I bought two of my grandaughters new summer dresses and Faith (she's 4) has already surpassesd the size I bought.

Jean and I are planning a teleseminar next week (phone based) and would love to have you join us.  Just go to this link and sign up www.homecookinglive.com.  It's free and we have a guest speaker that is a chef at one of our fine resturants.   Hope you can join us.