Cooking Epiphanies

Apple Butter Time

Biscuits – what more can you say
Growing up, one of my favorite and fondest memories is my mom’s homemade “everything in the refrigerator vegetable soup” and homemade biscuits.  Florida doesn’t get very cold, very often, but when it does, without a lot of internal heating systems, you need something to make you warm inside.  Homemade soup fits the bill.  But, when I think back on those wonderful soups, I can’t remember  a single one without the biscuits.  That’s when it hit me that it was the biscuits that was the grounding factor. This weekend is a cold rainy dreary day in Tennessee.  It’s a much colder environment than Miami ever was, so soup is a mains

More on Okra
This year was the first time I put Okra in my garden. So far it’s been a great success. I thought I’d post a very short blog to show you some photos. The okra, as I said in an earlier post is related to the Hibiscus. You can really see that when you look at the blossoms. Here’s a shot of one from my garden today.