by Therese Oldenburg | Jan 18, 2025 | Food & Cooking, History
From the Heart, Through the Hand: Sharing Recipes When I was a young bride, I received a Betty Crocker Cookbook and an empty wooden recipe box as gifts, ready to be filled with favorite recipes. Forty+ years later, my Betty book is well used (and I still refer to it...
by Therese Oldenburg | Dec 23, 2024 | Food & Cooking
Experiments In My Kitchen: Greek Yogurt and Ricotta Cheese I’m recently retired and have more time on my hands to experiment in the kitchen. I absolutely love Greek yogurt, especially the unflavored, unsweetened variety because I can control the amount of...
by Therese Oldenburg | Dec 20, 2024 | Food & Cooking, History
The photo above is my Dad, Bob Seidel, carefully checking ingredients for Czech dumplings that my son Josh is making I recently started working on my family ancestry using Ancestry.com. My father, Bob Seidel, was the youngest son of two Czech immigrants, Rose and Emil...
by Therese Oldenburg | May 19, 2023 | Food & Cooking, Outdoors and Nature
Wild Foraging: the act of responsibly harvesting edible, wild growing plants and fungi for food, medicine and beverages. I’m just learning about foraging, so I thought I’d start in my own backyard. On a beautiful May morning I foraged in my yard for...
