In 2009 we published “The Holm Family Cookbook” with our mother, an aunt, and a cousin. We started this blog at that time and maintained it for a few years, so many of the posts are a bit dated, but the recipes are still good!
I'm Hooked! I used to subscribe to a lot of magazines. They would often pile up and to reduce the piles I would take a stack of them with me on a business trip to read on the plane, I'd take the months-old magazines to read on vacation, or I'd spend a weekend flipping...
Over the last year, I’ve been swapping cookbooks with our cousin-in-law’s Grandma Patsy from West Texas, giving me the chance to try some Southern cooking. Over the summer we tested out okra two ways for the very first time from the Ropesville...
The other day we received an email from our cousin Lori who lives in Texas. Lori is a girl that was born and raised in California, and her job took her and her daughters to Texas. Her daughters met and married Texas boys (we all love their accents and their southern...
Happy Valentines Day! Last week my cousin Wendy sent me an email asking if I would like to go see Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman blogger and cookbook author, as she would be in San Francisco for a book signing. My sister Nancy wanted to go too, so Wendy and I...
On Sunday I had the pleasure of attending a presentation and book-signing event for author, blogger, and self proclaimed slow-cookerer Stephanie O'Dea. In 2008 Stephanie made a new years resolution to use a slow cooker (aka Crockpot) to prepare meals for 365...
First full day of Fall and I’m lookin’ for soup recipes, especially because it has, once again, been unseasonably cold ‘round these parts (40-something outside this morning). I remember going back to school in September and it being 105 degrees, this year is freezing,...
It’s that time of year again, is your zucchini out of control?? With our very strange spring weather, we didn’t get our garden planted until late, so I’m making a preemptive strike, finding recipes before the zucchini ambushes our life! Cooking...
I’m a Food Network junkie, I could watch it all day long –Bobby Flay (our favorite), The Neelys, Guy Fieri, The Barefoot Contessa, Alton Brown, Paula Deen, Nigella, Giada, and the list goes on. Low and behold, last month they launched another foodie network, The...
If you live near a major metropolitan city, I've recently discovered a couple of cool foodie emails... First, there's Groupon, a daily email featuring great deals on the best stuff to do, see, EAT, and buy in a variety of cities across the U.S. I received...
Being the forward minded techie thinker that I am (yeah, right, I’m just now upgrading my 10+ year old Power Mac to a 3 year old Apple Laptop!), I recently encouraged those on our “Holm Family Cookbook” email list to subscribe to the RSS Feed (most...