Recent Posts
Recipe Time! Zippy Southwest Pulled Pork, an Easy, Tasty Meal for Carnivores
Zippy Southwest pulled pork made in the slow cooker is savory with a rich, deep taste, but it’s not overly spicy. And what’s really cool is that it’s super easy!
Nancy’s Marinated Shrimp: a Party Favorite from the Way Back
Bringing back to life a long-dormant family recipe for marinated shrimp, which tastes as fresh and welcome today as it did 50 years ago.
Cookbook Collection: “Come On Over” is a Sandwich Wednesday FIND
The latest cookbook to yield Sandwich Wednesday benefits at Glover Gardens is from Jeff Mauro, called Come On Over.
Fun with Skordalia (Does that sound nerdy?)
Skordalia is a magical Greek sauce with a “nectar of the gods” feel to it when you first experience it.
Poem and Pictures: A Bench is Waiting
A bench is an invitation to become one with it for a while, to sit and be still in your surroundings, and let nature and the world flow around you.
Comfort Food Alert – A New Frontier (for Us)
In Albuquerque for a wedding, we wanted to eat somewhere really, really unique and local. Frontier Restaurant scratched that itch.
Finding My Way Back to Watermelon Love
A lifetime of taste aversion to watermelon was vanquished with a Watermelon Salad. Sweet Baby Juiciness, that fruit is delectable!
Who Cares if Niagara Falls When We are Side by Side?
Seagulls recall a jazz standard, Side by Side, and the Glovers of Glover Gardens had an anniversary.
We’re All Coping With So Many Collective Traumas Right Now
Cascading collective trauma is the term for what we’re experiencing as we endure seemingly never-ending external events and tragedies.
Mahogany Splendor Hibiscus Memories … with Blooms in Our Future
Mahogany Splendor is a beautiful and unique hibiscus variety and we’re trying again after losing ours in the big Texas freeze of 2021.
Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Goat Cheese are a Match Made in Heaven: Try This Easy Spread
Miami Nice! Recommendations for Peacocks, Parks and Restaurants
Recreation recommendations in Miami from a grad student. Parks, peacocks and foodie-worthy restaurants, oh my!
Glover Gardens Kitchen 2.0: It’s Been A Minute, So Here Are The “After” Pictures (Finally!!!)
At long last, pictures of the results of the Glover Gardens Kitchen 2.0 remodel project. It was well worth the wait.
Reflections on a Kitchen Remodel: What We Learned about Packing, Prepping, Culling and Coping
Observations and lessons learned from how we planned, prepped, packed, culled and coped during what we called ‘The Siege’.
A Wild Goose Chase: the Fallacy of Assumptions
A family of geese came and went, causing us to worry about predators: gators and eagles and hawks, oh my!