For a celebration this month, one of my children requested a special treat from the past, these simple Banana Peach ‘Mushrooms’. I used to make them occasionally when the children were small, so long ago that Miss 15 cannot even recall them, and they always brought joy then. They did the same now. I hope […]
Kitchen
Stress-free, Succulent Turkey
Being Canadian, we have already enjoyed our Thanksgiving turkey, and it was delicious. I used to dread cooking turkey, hoping desperately that it would be neither undercooked nor dry and overcooked. With this recipe it’s so stress-free to make tender and delicious turkey! Here’s what I do (and what some of my friends are now […]
Pickled Beans, Large and Small Batches
Large Batch Pickled Beans: Use about 5 gallons of freshly picked green beans to make about 14 quarts pickled beans. Carefully wash and trim beans. Into each hot, clean quart jar put: 2 cloves of garlic 1 head dill weed 1 t crushed chili peppers Fill with carefully cleaned and trimmed beans, allowing 1 inch […]
Measuring the Speed of Light with Chocolate
One of the fundamental scientific quantities in the universe is the speed of light. It is a huge number—about 300,000,000 meters per second or 186,000 miles per second—and is basic to electricity, magnetism, particle physics, cosmology, and the theory of relativity. And, what’s really cool, most homes nowadays have the tools to measure it! We […]