Very Good Recipes of Ours from The Hidden Pantry
There are 16 Ours recipes on the blog The Hidden Pantry. (165 on all the blogs)
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Spring is finally here as we enjoy our first day of working out in our yard
By The Hidden Pantry
04/13/13 21:02
Looking down into a red tulip.Grape Hyacinths Smell Wonderful.I expect we will both be moaning and groaning this evening after doing yard work most of the day. Things are blooming and spring is here. Thought I would share some of the blossoms.................
"Our House" Cobb Salad and Vinaigrette with Fresh Chives
By The Hidden Pantry
04/12/13 02:35
"Our House" Cobb SaladCobb Salad is traditionally a chopped salad arranged with specific rows of ingredients across a bed of greens. What I like about it is that you can arrange everything on a large platter and each person helps themselves to the portion...
Poem and Thoughts from Charlie Reese's Final Column for the Orlando Sentinel. It is a Completely Neutral Statement Addressing the Source of our Debt
By The Hidden Pantry
03/08/13 17:36
By Charley Reese Charlie is retiring after 49 years as a journalist. This is his final column from the Orlando Sentinel and is politically neutral. 545 vs. 300,000,000 People -by Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems...
I am Trying the, "How to Lose Up To 10 Pounds In 3 Days on the 3-Day Military Diet" & Our Taxes Are Ready to Go
By The Hidden Pantry
02/25/13 17:20
My dinning room workplace has lots of windows and is my "desk" of choice.Not often do I abandon you for as long as a week but tomorrow would have been 7 days! My explanation is easy, weather and taxes. Admittedly I hate to do all of the prep necessary to...
Pileated Woodpecker Visits Our Window Today
By The Hidden Pantry
02/06/13 20:23
Pileated Woodpecker @10:30 AM this morning. Picture taken by my friend and next door neighbor, Doris.Many years I have been visited by Pileated Woodpeckers in the wooded area where we reside. But not every year and not this year......that is until TODAY!...
Bottling Our First Homebrew Beer Episode 3
By The Hidden Pantry
12/03/12 15:48
Sunday afternoon we got busy and performed the final stage of the beer brewing project. ( Except of course the very last chapter, tasting and consuming it! ) After washing and sterilizing all of the caps, bottles, and equipment needed to bottle Brian got...
Homebrewing Beer, Episode One, Our First Attempt
By The Hidden Pantry
11/15/12 16:03
This is the label from our can of extract.Gees.....I have gone to the "American Home Brewers Association" website, www,homebrewersassociation.org and watched the brewing films a half dozen times now. My hope is that what we purchased is at least close to...
Prayer for our Country and our People for Election Day
By The Hidden Pantry
11/05/12 17:14
I have been a little concerned about the election. I have just a bit of apprehension over the degree of trepidation I feel coming through when listening to some of the folks on television and on the radio. Given all of the disasters and perils we currently...
Heirloom Tomatoes and Basil Highlight our Garden Planting
By The Hidden Pantry
05/03/12 17:40
Garden time is always a fun time here. Brian and I love to mess with our tiny plot to see what all we can get going in such a small space. 12' x12' is about all the sun we have and it is practically in our front yard but we don't care. We just get out there...
Appetizers and Strawberry Shortcake Vodka Shots Start and Finnish Our Night Out with Friends
By The Hidden Pantry
04/22/12 19:08
We had plans Saturday night to dine out with our friends the Linton's. They like to come and visit from across town every once in a while and we have done this for years. Often we go to a local Mexican restaurant and enjoy catching up with Steak tacos and...
Roast Beef Sandwiches, Our Favorites, with or without Au Jus
By The Hidden Pantry
04/17/12 20:50
There is just nothing any easier than cooking a perfect rump roast and enjoying it for delicious sandwiches, both warm as a main dish and cold for a lunch plate. I don't have any idea how or when I stumbled upon or evolved into this but I am sure glad I...
Smoked Pork Butt & Chicken, Fresh Miracle Strawberry Cake and Fresh Strawberry Frosting and a walk through our yard today as blossoms are busting out all over
By The Hidden Pantry
03/25/12 22:20
Brian and I are cooking together today. He fired up the smoker for the first time this season and I mixed up a rub and BBQ sauce. His custom water bath was a can of beer and a chopped lemon and a chopped orange so the steam is chocked full of flavor too....
Tragic Accident in Our Family
By The Hidden Pantry
03/09/12 00:39
I have debated all day about whether to share this or not. Our 18 year old Godson and nephew Jacob was in a terrible accident this morning which has shaken us all to our core. He was on his way to school this morning north of Indianapolis and the roads...
Our First Snow Accumulation of the Season
By The Hidden Pantry
11/29/11 18:59
As I drugged off to the Vet's office this morning it didn't occur to me that I might soon be getting pelted with big wet globs of snow. But that is exactly what happened. After I picked up Molly's RX, yes the prescription is for the dog.....She is like...
Ham and Split Pea Soup takes the chill off our first really cool evening
By The Hidden Pantry
09/16/11 16:18
Ham and Split Pea Soup with Carrots and Turnips. A few minutes ago I noticed the bright orange leaves of autumn have started appearing on the big old tree in front of the picture window in my living room. That tree turns early but it is indeed an omen of...
Billy Graham's Prayer for Our Nation
By The Hidden Pantry
07/20/11 17:32
My Mother sent this along to me last week and I thought it was beautiful, inspired, and profound. I have told a lot of people about it and shared my thoughts and hopes about it as well as Governor Perry's Day of Prayer on August 6th. I think it is well...
