Fig Preserves

Fig Preserves This fig tree is in our back yard. We cut it all the way down to the ground once, and it came back even bigger than ever. Each summer around late June, we begin racing the birds to get the figs. They get some, and we get some. [Click here for larger...
Apple Custard Pie

Apple Custard Pie

Mother made this up from a bunch of apples we brought up on our visit to Tennessee. It’s delicious. I’m not much on making desserts, but this one is so good, I thought I’d share it. Mother got this recipe from a cookbook published by First United...

Fish Tacos – with Corn Meal

Fish Tacos – with Corn Meal Okay, I know. Here we are blogging about fish tacos again. Well, it’s like anything else that’s good; it’s worth revisiting. I may have hit on the “Power Taco” tonight. Like before, I cut the fish into...

Fig Preserves Again

Fig Preserves Again We did another 10 pints of figs last night. I’m getting pretty good at this. I didn’t make nearly as big a mess as I did the first night. That makes 17 pints in 2 nights, and we still have a couple of dozen left over from last year....

Fish Tacos

Fish Tacos Long ago in a small-town mission church in Arkansas a priest (who is now a bishop) told me about the CASE method: Copy And Steal Everything. The following is from the San Francisco Chronicle.  SOUTH TO NORTHSouth to North: Baja meets bayou in a fish taco...