I was pleased to contribute a recipe, during the lockdown of 2020, to a cookbook spearheaded by Carolyn Ekins (Hyland) of The 1940s Experiment. Her website specializes in frugal cookery, specifically as influenced by war-time rationing. She had the brilliant idea of collecting recipes people…

The title is inspired by the fact that a deer crossed my yard just as I sat down to write, and by the headliner — if headliner is the word I want — at a strip club not far from somewhere I used to live:…

My late husband could never learn the word vegan; he always said veegen. So the cook’s pronunciation is in memory of my dearest love. No actual roast beef was involved in the actual meal I made, which is detailed in today’s story. Stay Out of…