Kaufman’s Nana Bread
I’ve been making this banana bread recipe since Meg passed it on in the early 1970’s. She was at my house last year, and when I said I still made her banana bread, she asked “Which one?” Upon listing the crunchy peanut butter she smiled and said something…
Brunswick Stew
The time honored recipe that I learned for Brunswick Stew involved 3 or 4 squirrels, a rabbit and maybe a possum (or some other roadkill). Or squirrel, rabbit and chicken at least. Needless to say, I scared a priest from New York (NYC) by explaining this before I…
Camera time and old friends
Back in early late May/early June a friend from high school (ok, so we’ve probably known each other since elementary school dance classes) came for a few days to visit. We entertained ourselves one morning by wandering around with our cameras — love this…
testing embeds
I’d like this to be the full width of the post… alas that seems to be a problem if I use the Slideshare block. Seems ok if I use Slideshare shortcode to embed. Life of St. Agostina Pietrantoni…
Mailchimp rides again
I use Mailchimp on some other sites to get out updates from the blog function. Seems to work ok generating an email from an RSS feed. But, there are problems: the standard WordPress RSS doesn’t send the featured images in the RSS feed. I like my images to show…
how to do post formats
I once studied to be an oceanographer… but alas I didn’t wind up working in that field. That doesn’t mean that the ocean is less fascinating to me. I just work with it differently.