I've been kind of busy here lately with family dropping by, looking after Jamie, winter cooking and baking, gardening and a few small c...

As promised, here is a recipe for an Australian biscuit called the Monte Carlo. I think they started selling Monte Carlos in the 1920s and ...

March, week 4 in The Simple Home This is the final week in our food and home cooking month. We've been discussing food shopping, sto...

March, week 2 in The Simple Home This week we'll focus on shopping for food and I'm guessing that will mean vastly different thin...

March, week 1 in The Simple Home Going back to basics This is one of the most important chapters in The Simple Home as it deals wit...

January, week 2 in The Simple Home This is another of those topics where there will be vast differences in the way all of us do things. ...

I've had quite a few readers ask about Gracie's food. What we feed our animals is important to me because I want them to have a goo...

Using leftovers to create another meal has been part of my food management for as long as I can remember. One of our favourite meals is cor...

Here at our place Mondays are the same as Thursdays, Thursdays the same as Sundays; each day we get up and usually know what we have to do....

The past week has been lovely here. On Tuesday we celebrated Hanno's 77th birthday with the family over for dinner. Sunny and Jamie are...

Over the past few days our time has been spent in a steady, slow stream of work here in our home. Meals have been cooked, cleaning done, dr...

We have wood sorrel growing in the dappled shade under our outdoor table in the vegetable garden. The leaves add a citric taste to salads....

One of the easy ways to cut back a bit on your grocery bill is to make some of the things you usually buy.  We all know about laundry liqui...