Driftless Appetite

Belated Happy Christmas everyone.  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas celebration and were able to see a lot of family and friends.  Keith and I ended up driving all the way to Cooperstown, NY to visit his family.  We had a wonderful time cooking, eating, drinking, and just being together.  Oh, and if [...]

Okay, so Leslie usually does the recipes, but I’ll take a whack at this one.  This is a perfect soup for a cold winter night when you don’t want to cook but you want warm comfort food.  Because it’s so quick to make, it’s also great for when guests come over.

In the Philippines we ate seafood several times a week.  My grandfather’s favorite dish to make was called “Jumping Salad”.  It was fresh shrimp (still jumping around) with oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.  I thought that was gross but then again my brother and I would fight over who would get to eat the [...]

Our lot is 100 feet by 150 feet.  We have 14 inches of snow in our yard (I measured).  This means we have (roughly) 17550 cubic feet of snow right now.  What to do with it?  Well, I’ll use 300 cubic feet to make snowballs to throw at Leslie.  1206.34 cubic feet will make that [...]

As far as I could tell, Mineral Point’s Candlelight Shopping Night was a big success this year.   Keith and I met up with friends and strolled through most of the shops in Mineral Point.  The weather was perfect (except for a dash of Wisconsin winter) and plenty of people were out enjoying themselves.  Our [...]

It’s 30 degrees out and there’s a light dusting of snow all around.  People have decorated their houses with colorful fairy lights. The stores are packed with shoppers trying to find that perfect gift.  Which reminds me, I have not done anything to get into the holiday mood.  Tonight  is going to be a special [...]

Sorry for the big gap in posts everyone.  I just woke up from a food-induced coma.  Keith and I visited our family down in Illinois for Thanksgiving.  Everyone contributed to the meal.  I made a couple of desserts, a traditional pumpkin pie and some coconut milk keylime bars.  Grandma made some concoction of sticky rice, [...]