In our household growing up in the suburbs of Newark, New Jersey we ate pot roast fairly often. I don’t recall the side dishes, or what else came along with the meat, but probably the pot contained potatoes and carrots, onions naturally, and perhaps other vegetables. To this day, I’m not fond of potatoes in…
Author: Marilyn Raff
Marilyn Raff is the award-winning author of The Intuitive Gardener, plus the author of two other garden books, Shrub Roses: Paradise in Bloom, and Ornamental Grasses for Western Gardens. For a decade she wrote a garden column for The Villager newspaper. Her poetry has been published in over twenty literary magazines, and Finishing Line Press has published her two poetry chapbooks—In the Palm of the Land, and Until Class Ends. Finally, her artwork, jewelry, and sometimes baked items are on displayed and for sale, at The Blue Chair, an art gallery and furniture store at 3473 S. Broadway, Englewood, Colorado 80113. With affection, Marilyn continues her passions of baking, cooking, painting, decoupage, sewing, gardening and making jewelry.
Buttery Peanut Butter Biscuits
As a child I was never a fan of peanut butter; my three siblings and I often slathered our jellies and jams, (me raspberry, the others preferred grape), atop softened cream cheese, yum! We never had much desire for white bread, as I recall. Most often we ate Jewish rye with poppy seeds, a dark…
Creamy Garden Vegetable and Bean Soup
My second blog entry is soup. Around the country currently, many states are experiencing snow and cold, so, it seems appropriate to have soup on the menu for nearly every meal. I’ve been making soup for decades but lately I’ve been branching out and experimenting with new varieties, like the one below. On cold wintry…
Roasted Potatoes with Bok Choy, String Beans and Sausage
one evening I was restless, so I browsed my stack of cooking magazines and saw interesting recipes, like the following one. It appeared different with roasted potatoes. Over the years I have been bored with boiled potatoes, so bland, simple, so this recipe caught my attention. Plus, I had several fresh veggies which needed to…
Cookbooks up on new bookshelf
This is my first official blog post since my friend Sabina Espinet, an excellent graphic designer, fixed my website. Over the last several years my bookshelves have been bulging, overflowing with poetry, gardening, memoir books, books on writing and now cookbooks. Many of the excessive amount of books have ended up stacked neatly on my…
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