Fish Pepperard
Christians are now in the liturgical season of Lent, a time of reflection, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial. As a child I learned that during Lent we should give up something that we really liked....
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Breakfast Frittata
What do you do when you can’t resist buying a lot of jalapeño peppers that happen to be on sale? Find recipes that call for jalapeños, of course. My wife just shook her head at the recipe for a...
View ArticleHam and Lentil Soup
Lentils have been saddled with a bum rap. Even before the King James Bible told us that Esau sold his birthright for a “pottage of lentiles” (lentil soup), people have been using the story as an...
View ArticleSour Cream Blue Cheese Dressing
In 1971 food was more important than cookbooks in the Rang family. Fortunately we received two or three good ones as wedding presents, and Jerri’s trusty Dinner for Two Cook Book was still usable,...
View ArticleJerri’s Mom’s Borscht
Jerri has been making borscht since we were married. It is always delicious though frequently slightly different, as she has never written down what she does. Basically, she just tries to make it the...
View ArticleToni’s OrIental Skillet
The year I planted five kinds of zucchini in the big garden we shared with our neighbor was also the year that we camped for a week on Kentucky Lake with our friends, Dave and Toni. We had camped...
View ArticleKasha (Buckwheat Groats)
My father raised buckwheat on one of our fields, but I did not know it wasn’t a grain until I was in college. It is actually related to rhubarb. The only buckwheat we had at home was buckwheat...
View ArticleCraig’s Huevos a la Mexicana (Mexican Eggs)
Most hunters get up early for the opening day of deer season in Wisconsin. At our cabin, the alarm sounds before 5:00 AM. That annoying sound is followed by various grunts and groans as the guys crawl...
View ArticleAlmost Fat-free Calabacitas
Our niece Susie brought one of her favorite cookbooks to a family gathering in Kansas earlier this summer. When she handed me Jane Marsh Dieckmann’s Use it All: The Leftovers Cook Book, I grabbed it...
View ArticleGluten-free Chilean Quinoa Tabbouleh
One of our great-nieces and her husband have twin sons with wheat or gluten intolerance. Although most of us don’t think about this particular allergy, people who are allergic to wheat or other grains...
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Assi’s Fish Soup
A few week’s ago we finally visited Assi and her family in Helsinki, Finland. Assi was a Rotary Exchange Student in 1994 when I was the District Exchange Officer for Finland. Today she and her husband,...
View ArticleCranberry Banana Bowl
I did it again. Another bag of bananas on sale at a local convenience store, another impulse buy. This time I asked the clerk to weigh the bag to support my argument for the purchase when I got home....
View ArticleGinger Marmalade
Our friend Chris joins my hunting partners and me at the cabin every deer season. He doesn’t hunt himself but he has chased a few deer past our stands and he is always ready to help drag one back to...
View ArticleImproved Tomato Juice
As graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, Bob and I had to watch every penny. A couple of quarters wasted on lettuce or potatoes at the regular price meant fewer beers at Glenn and Ann’s....
View ArticlePlain Rice Pilaf
In “Vol. II Treasured Recipes–from the Kitchens of Members and Friends of the Hayward Women’s Golf Club,” Marge Gogian suggested that the shish kebab grilled by George the Turk should be served with...
View ArticleVegetarian Vegetable Soup
When you have a vegetarian for a grandson, it’s important to have a few dishes that a vegetarian will enjoy. I like vegetables, but I think of them as side dishes, or as I tell Will, our grandson, “I...
View ArticleHot and Sour Soup
Like many other people who live in northern Wisconsin, I have friends who think ketchup is a little spicy and that anything not pure white probably has too much black pepper in it. My parents were not...
View ArticleFresh Limeade
The frozen concentrated orange juice that we enjoy today was developed during World War II. The Florida Citrus Commission assembled a team of three researchers to improve the quality of processed...
View ArticleJerri’s Sautéed Yellow Squash
Yellow squash is one of the summer squashes, a cousin of zucchini and pattypan. There are straight and crookneck varieties. They taste the same to us and we use either for this recipe. Yellow squash is...
View ArticleWild Blackberry Jam
The wild blackberries are small this summer. At least the ones I picked seemed tiny compared to the huge ones I picked as a kid. Those berries were almost as long as my little finger. Of course, my...
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