I like my stuffing cooked outside the bird. This recipe works well as a side for turkey or pork. Ingredients: • 1 pound sweet Italian sausage, casings removed • 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter • 1 teaspoon powdered onion • 6 cups diced cored tart green apples (such as Granny Smith) • 1 tablespoon dried […]

Ingredients 3 lb. sweet potatoes ½ cup sugar ½ cup brown sugar, loosely packed 1 cup milk 2 beaten eggs 6 TBS butter, cubed 2 tsp vanilla Marshmallows Directions 1. Scrub and peel sweet potatoes. 2. Cut off and discard woody portions and ends. 3. Cut potatoes into cubes. 4. Cook covered in boiling water […]

Ingredients 1 ½ lb. sweet potatoes ½ cup sugar ½ cup milk 1 beaten egg 3 TBS butter, cubed 1 tsp vanilla ½ cup brown sugar, packed 1/3 cup flour 2 TBS butter Directions 1. Scrub and peel sweet potatoes. 2. Cut off and discard woody portions and ends. 3. Cut potatoes into cubes. 4. […]

Ingredients: 3 pounds cubed beef 2 tablespoons paprika 1 tablespoon onion powder 1 1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper 2 teaspoons bouillon, Beef granules 1 teaspoon bouillon, Chicken granules 1 8 oz. can tomato sauce 4 teaspoons ground cumin 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper 1 1/2 teaspoons MSG 6 tablespoons chili powder […]

Note: This is more a technique than a recipe. It makes a bird that has concentrated turkey flavor and fine, firm flesh and that is delicious as it is easy. But you can add other flavors as you wish. Minced rosemary would be a nice finishing addition. Or brush the bird lightly with butter before […]

Served with Pea Pilau, this is a tasty Indian meal.

All the recipes have been moved over, but still need formatting. We are slowly moving over old stories as time permits. -Carrie

This holiday weekend this site is moving to a new server and changing formats.  -Carrie

Elsewhere we’ve listed all the many birds that visit our yard. Here is the latest addition, an apple stealing green parrot.

We’ve had a number of custom bird feeders over the years, but the one that has endured and travelled from Redondo to Pomona was the cathead feeder.   I had added and soon abandoned a wireframe body, but the results were less than satisfying both functionally and aesthetically.  So when the original cathead feeder was […]

While taking a picture of the new trellis for the article below I snapped this shot of some of our fish in the nearby pond. The large white Koi is Edgar named for Edgar Winter for what may be obvious reasons.  The smaller white fish with the orange oblong marking on its head is Leon; […]

What to do with an unruly bougainvillea?  Strap it to a trellis. What to do if you don’t have a trellis?  Build one! To keep the bougainvillea from falling into the fish pond, Carrie built us a trellis.  And she let me dig the holes for the concrete footings. Carrie translated this sketch into the […]