For your garden...
Next to cooking, gardening is my passion. I could stay outside
from dawn to dark (as long as the weather and sunscreen
hold out). In the winter, you will find me looking out the windows
and dreaming about my future gardens and plantings. As I
have gotten older, keeping my life simpler makes everything
so much easier, and it gives me more time to do the things
that I love.

In my garden today, February 18, 2024
Recipes are like stories; they can change from person to person. Everyone has their idea of how a recipe should be, even
though it may have changed from the original. We will never know the true author of the original recipe, regardless of
what some may say. That's why I go back and look through the oldest cookbooks that I can find. Sometimes it's not the
recipe in the books that I find, but the tiny pieces of handwritten recipes and newspaper articles that are stuck within
the pages. That's where the real story is, finding those simple Southern recipes. -Mac