Poor Man’s Steak

by | Mar 18, 2010 | Kate's Kitchen, Main Dishes

Here’s an inexpensive steak dish that my family enjoys. I’m quite picky about the ground beef recipes I like to eat, and I especially detest little bits of ground beef disguised in casseroles. I make vegetarian lasagna and spaghetti for that reason. (If I...

Seed-Starting Rack and an Anniversary

by | Mar 17, 2010 | Farm & Family

Last year about this time my friend Jennifer posted a guide for making an Easy Seed-Starting Rack on the Backyard Farming blog. This past Saturday my husband decided it was time to make our own. This isn’t exactly like the one Jennifer and Jeff made because we...

Matthew Buckley

by | Mar 14, 2010 | Interviews

Once again I convinced an author to spend a day here presenting to our five elementary schools and finishing up with a signing at the library. To our good fortune, Matthew Buckley was the latest author to agree to this exhaustive schedule. He’s published two...

Kimberly Job

by | Mar 11, 2010 | Interviews

After my last post, I decided to check out some of the other authors who will be at the launch party on March 16 at the Barnes & Nobles in the Gateway. I visited Kimberly’s blog and learned about her Favorite Things Giveway to celebrate the release of her...

New Book Releases

by | Mar 8, 2010 | Reading

(Disclaimer: My two-year-old shoved staples down the crevices of my keybaord rendering the comma key useless even after I removed the two staples he’d managed to lodge under that particular key. So no commas will appear in this post. Please turn off your...