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Up the Hill, Down the Hill Old One, lie down, Your journey is done, Little New Year Will rise with the sun. Now you have come to The fo...

How to Be Your Own Decorator,  Helen Koues, Good Housekeeping, New York, 1928. We are fast approaching the time when homemakers turn the...

" OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN THE APPLE STORE: THE DECLINE OF CHRISTMAS AND THE LOOMING TECH NIGHTMARE " Instapundit links to ...

The richest gumbo ever in the history of mankind If you think you've seen this gumbo before, you are right & wrong. RIGHT: Mr. B...

Rocky Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature nob...

I have a number of books tagged "Christmas" in my library of crappy old books. Some are stacked up on the coffee table. ...

"No body likes tangerines," said The Doctor Hope your day was Merry & Bright. 

Merry Christmas from all of us at Farther Along Farm.

Mr. Big Food's Southern antipasto: It's Southern because it has pickled okra and chow-chow Wednesday is "guy food" nig...

Truth be told, there was no singing involved. We went calling on our neighbors this Christmas Eve. We brought along fruitcake! I...

I can make those candle stubs redder. But I cannot for the life of me figure it out. It was all I could manage to do to take the pictu...

What? You thought we were still talking about fruitcake ? "Please, sir, this Christmas, a scarf for my littlest bother? My batte...

Faithful commenter 'suek' has shared her mom's fruitcake recipe.   From the comment thread , we also learn that Sue's Ma a...

Another in what is becoming a long line of fruitcake posts... . Candied grapefruit rinds ready to be filled with fruitcake batter and b...

This time of year, there's a particular time of day when the sun shines straight through the front door. It's pretty, don't yo...

Homemade English muffins (veganized), fresh squeezed grapefruit juice and coffee.

Foreshadowing You really do have to give us credit, don't you? Who else in the neighborhood has a for real L ig hts  & Dis p la...

The rinds of eight grapefruit halves All I want for Christmas is another kitchen* and another gumbo pot. (JK) It's gotten to the poi...

Because that's like 370 pounds of raisin there-- not to mention the currants and candied this & that and local pecans.  I hope ...

For reasons we can discuss some other day, we are not making our usual trek to My Mother's House for Christmas. We are having Christmas...

Photographs courtesy of Daughter C* We went to Woodland the other evening. You may-- if you're still following along-- recall Woodla...