City Home/Country Home

I love to breakfast on steel-cut oats and long cooking multi-grain hot cereals on cool mornings. But they have a long cooking time and ar...

If you follow along here, you may remember that I do lunch for a group of Young Single Adults from our church every month.  Last Sunday w...

My girls have been raving about their homemade granola for a long time.  When I asked for the favorite recipe, Erin said, "Oh I just t...

We had a bumper yield of heirloom Pottawattamie Plums this year.  The branches were weighed down with plump, big (for Pottawattamie plu...

 I love banana bread.  These beautiful loaves are ready for gifting (with a few leftover for our freezer). There's nothing better ...

Oprah has her favorite things and I have mine.  Now... I know there would be no comparison if you were invited to Oprah's Favorite Thin...

Rachel made Challah bread with a dried fig filling.  The recipe came from the new Smitten Kitchen Cookbook.   #1 Sister gifted it to Ra...

Many years ago (my recipe says 1986), my friend Marjorie shared this recipe in a church cookbook.  We moved to San Francisco and I lef...

Early mornings are a bit nippy now that Fall is just around the corner.  I love hot cereal for breakfast this time of year.  Whole grains a...

I love yogurt.  I even remember when I first tasted it.  I was 16 years old and working in a small store and I had forgotten my dinner....

It's been a while since I last posted but I'm making up for it by sharing with you a winner of a recipe.  Two of our daughters ca...

One of the best things I ate at the Quilt Retreat last week was an apple cider syrup over pancakes.  Many of the quilters voiced the opinio...

Pumpkin...Love it and this is the season of the harvest.  Nothing says fall like Pumpkin (unless it's zucchini and I know that you garde...

Our neighbors Lothar and Anita grow the most beautiful garden. Every summer Lothar tells me about his wife Anita's zucchini pancakes.  I...

Do you grow zucchini in your garden?  If  you answered yes, then you surely have gone out one morning and found a baseball bat-sized zucchi...

Mr. City Home made french toast while I was in the garden.  You'll never guess what he topped it with. I picked another 5 pans of berri...

Do you know Marion Cunningham?  Not Richie's mom from the Happy Days TV show (now I'm just showing my age); but Marion Cunningham, t...

Grab a beverage, pull up a stool and get comfortable, because there are some good things on the blog today, and a little surprise for you a...

Today we hopped in the car and drove up north for a trip down Memory Lane, searching for cherries and a little piece of my childhood. My Mo...