• Stuff to eat

    Strawberry Party

    Williamsburg, VA is known for many things, most of them related to super old, white folks who named this or founded that. What they’ve also got, is a pretty good farmer’s market. Williamsburg is full of tourist stuff, but when you get right outside of the area, it’s regular ole’ Virginia farmland, full of yummy stuff to eat. So, it makes sense that the farm market in Williamsburg would be full of various types of fruits and veg from RVA down to the Hampton Roads area. It had been a few years since we went, but we were headed to the antique mall to look for a particular type of…

  • Regular Foods,  Stuff to eat

    A perfect, homemade mushroom & Swiss

    After working in the garden all day and feeling some kind of tired, I angled for the comfort of some Indian food. We had already planned to pop out for a few to find some Sherry for drinking and cocktails, when I decided to hold off on Indian until my mom comes in a few weeks. Instead, my wonderful husband had the idea of doing a burger. We brainstormed and decided on a mushroom & Swiss, which we both love! After rolling through Wegmans to get all the stuff, we headed home and started on the mushroom mix to give it some time to saucify. He makes a cute little…

  • Regular Foods,  Stuff to eat

    Mile High Lemonade Pie, 1959

    One of the many fun things about being an analog collage artist is that I’m constantly flipping through old magazines and finding recipes that jump off the page. Sometimes they are jumping into the trash because they look disgusto-barfo, but sometimes, they jump into my obsessive brain and I find that I need to make them immediately. This time, I’m flipping through an issue of Family Circle from 1959 and being almost all the way through, I flip a page an find the recipe for this beauty, A Mile-High Lemonade Pie with a buttery coconut crust. I mean, what’s not to love? Lucky me, the only ingredient I didn’t have…