Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
It was a blink of en eye from the shelter in place order to the end of the school year, summer kick-off, and throw in throw in racial injustice that has brought us to another tipping point. The images, stories, resources are flooding our social media streams. While necessary, can be overwhelming. Hope everyone is…
The radishes were another gorgeous item we saw at the farmers market this past weekend. When we walked past this bunch on the table the 8 year-old said “I want some of those”. Of course, I had to grab a bunch to take home. Such beauties. Knowing radishes have a bite, I didn’t want that…
This about sums things up these days… Luckily this weekend I had time to pick up some of the broken pieces and make some progress on the to do list. Lots of time for some fun and relaxing too. I got a lot done in the kitchen to help prep for our busy week ahead….
Got my race on today in the Race That’s Good For Life 5K. It has actually been a couple of years since I have done a 5K, but since my race calendar has been so light lately I did not want to pass this one up since it takes place in my town. I haven’t…
Thankful for a beautiful day off, though I labored inside for a good part of the day. Poor planning, I should have gotten that all done earlier so I could have a beach today. We took an extra long weekend and spent two nights in Michigan, so at least I got one beach day out…
A delicious introduction. They got along swimmingly. After a few weeks soaking the bourbon took on the color of the cherries and resembled the color of a rich red wine. With the color soaked out of the cherries, they look a bit like Kalamata olives. But believe me the flavor is nothing like an olive. …
Plenty of tomatoes and basil to enjoy this week thanks to the CSA. Layers of tomatoes, basil, finely shredded Swiss, salt, pepper, and a little drizzle of olive oil were packed into a pie crust for a very rich and incredibly filling dinner. Didn’t make a dent in the basil. I still have plenty of…
Summer is quickly coming to an end. The day light hours are already shifting, school starts tomorrow and Labor Day is right around the corner. At least we still have lots of summer produce to look forward to, and hopefully some summer-like weather. Our final summer supper to ease us back into the school night…
The CSA box this week included squash blossoms. They are gorgeous, amazing color. I have never cooked or even eaten squash blossoms so I was pretty excited to have them in the delivery. I have most commonly seen squash blossoms stuffed, battered, and deep fried. I decided to go that route minus the deep fry. …
The first leg of our vacation was camping in Michigan. Can’t go camping without s’mores. My sister-in-law brought Reese’s peanut butter cups, genius! We roasted up the beer marshmallows. I have to say,beer or no beer, homemade marshmallows are awesome. The texture is creamier than the packaged kind. They roasted up nicely, and melted very…